Solidarity Asks

Sign this open letter to call on the University of Michigan Board of Regents to ensure that Academic Human Resources (AHR) agrees to transparent and inclusive bargaining with the Graduate Employees’ Organization, a labor union representing 2,300 graduate workers at U-M. There is no time to waste.  Graduate workers face a crisis of affordability at […]

The strike called by the part-time faculty of the New School, who constitute 87 percent of its teaching staff and who have been joined in the strike by many full-time faculty and students, is currently in its third week. Workers rejected the university’s “last, best, and final” offer last week with 95% voting no. UAW

Faculty Alliance of Miami AAUP-AFT (FAM) calls on community allies to help share some L.U.V. and support the faculty at Miami University in Ohio by signing this petition. Despite FAM’s certified majority of faculty who filed cards to support union recognition and election, Miami is delaying our vote by attempting to exclude non-tenure-track faculty (including librarians and

ACT-UAW Local 7902, the union of part-time faculty workers at The New School, has been on strike since Wednesday, Nov. 16. These workers haven’t had a raise since 2018 and The New School is refusing to offer pay increases that, at a minimum, meet inflation. Friends of The New School are invited to a Town

Decades of attacks have starved the NLRB of the resources it needs. This means that union elections are delayed and bosses can retaliate against workers with impunity at this crucial moment in labor organizing. This could have a direct impact on higher ed organizing.  NLRB workers are asking that unions and other labor-related organizations sign

From our union siblings at United Campus Workers Alabama: At the University of Alabama (and across the country), adjunct faculty worked tirelessly throughout the pandemic, many teaching the same course loads as full-time instructors, but without university-sponsored health insurance. UA graduate workers are also a critical part of the teaching work force and face tremendous

The Adjunct faculty of Rutgers University teach 30% of Rutgers courses. Despite teaching a third of classes, adjunct faculty’s salaries comprise less than 1% of the University’s budget, and these workers are not offered affordable healthcare coverage or job security. They’ve been working without a contact since June, and Rutgers’ top management has stalled negotiations