Solidarity Asks

In late June, University of California Police arrested 3 workers on felony charges and confiscated their possessions for allegedly writing messages like ‘Living Wage Now’ in washable chalk calling on UC to stop underpaying workers. This is an attack on our fundamental democratic rights and the academic worker labor movement at large. Sign here to demand that

Sign and circulate this open letter in support of Penn State faculty who are being targeted by the Right — in the form of a lawsuit and public defamation — for their antiracist pedagogy. As you know, these attacks are proliferating around the country, emboldened by recent Orwellian court rulings and state censorship laws. At

The Florida Board of Governors has suspended Florida Atlantic University’s presidential search, citing dubious claims about violations of Sunshine Laws. United Faculty of Florida’s belief is that this meddling in the FAU search process is motivated by pure partisanship, as the short list of candidates was composed of three highly qualified higher education professionals, instead

Grad workers from GEO AFT-Michigan Local 3550 at University of Michigan have been on strike for more than four weeks in response to their university administration offering ‘raises’ below the rate of inflation – effective pay cuts – and no solutions to issues facing parent grad workers, transgender grad workers, international grad workers, and more. Donate to their

Palm Beach Atlantic University has egregiously violated a professor’s academic freedom. PBA chose not to renew English Professor Samuel Joeckel’s contract because he included written works from Black authors and civil rights activists in his course material, which prompted one parent to accuse him of “indoctrinating students.”  Sign this petition to demand that Dr. Joeckel’s contract

Sign this petition to join the call for Goldsmiths University in the UK to act on the unjust treatment of Roberto Mozzachiodi, a leading figure in the fight against casualisation at Goldsmiths. Roberto’s specific case mirrors that of thousands across the country employed on temporary, fixed-term, and casualised contracts. We urge all at Goldsmiths and

We call on HELU member unions and all allies of higher education workers to support striking UW workers. Please donate to the UAW #4121 strike fund, join the pickets if you are in or near the Seattle area, and publicly share messages of support.