Solidarity Asks

From our colleagues at NIH Fellows United UAW Local 2750: The current government shutdown has left some of our members without pay. This fund provides direct emergency financial support to affected physician and scientist members to help cover essential expenses like rent, groceries, and medical bills during this uncertain period. Every contribution helps sustain the researchers […]

From our colleagues at HUCTW: Sign our petition to let University leaders know that the Harvard community is united in the fight to protect University staff and programs from drastic budget cuts. Everyone in the University community—including staff, managers, faculty, students, and other community allies— is encouraged to sign, and the final petition will be delivered

From our colleagues at AAUP Texas: Texas State University President Kelly Damphousse has terminated Professor Tom Alter for engaging in protected political speech as a private citizen, the Committee to Defend Tom Alter announced today. The decision represents a direct assault on the First Amendment and academic freedom. In a public statement released after his

Send an email to Tufts University Dean Scheri Fultineer demanding fair wages and workloads for Professors of the Practice (PoPs)! PoPs are full-time faculty and full-time practicing artists fighting for salaries that would no longer make them the worst-paid art faculty among Tufts’ peer institutions. Meanwhile, Tufts has refused to address PoPs’ ballooning workloads, as

From our colleagues at UIC United Faculty Local 6456: Sign onto a letter in support of faculty at the University of Illinois Chicago Library! UIC Library workers understand that faculty from the UIC Daley Library and Library of Health Sciences passed a vote of no confidence in the Dean of Libraries, Rhea Ballard-Thrower. During a

From our colleagues at AFT-Wisconsin Higher Education Council: Faculty and staff in the UW system have been pushing for the Board of Regents to recognize our unions and mandate that campus chancellors meet with elected union leadership to discuss salaries and working conditions. Gov. Evers supports union recognition, and now we just need the BOR

From our colleagues at Texas State Employees Union (TSEU-CWA Local 6186): Whether a professor, staff member, student, or community member, we all have the right to our own beliefs, ideas, and values and the right to speak about them openly as private citizens. On September 7, 2025, Dr. Alter delivered an off-campus talk as a

From our colleagues at the UAW: UAW members are mobilizing against a burdensome new rule, the latest in a sequence of xenophobic directives coming from the Trump administration. Recently, the Department of Homeland Security published a rule that shortens the length of time international students and scholars on F and J visas may remain in

From our comrades at UAW 4100, see below for info on a phone bank to protect science funding THIS FRIDAY – please share widely! We have had major successes fighting back against the federal government’s attacks on science and higher education together with academic workers across the country. But our fight is not over. The Trump Administration has proposed

From our colleagues at United Academics of the University of Oregon: The University of Oregon (UO) administration has announced the imminent layoff of an undisclosed number of faculty and the closure of academic departments and programs, based on a projected budget deficit that was discovered late Spring Term. Twenty faculty and many of our other