Solidarity Asks

This fundraiser is organized by Rümeysa Öztürk’s Immigration Court legal team: We are raising urgent funds for the legal support of Rümeysa Öztürk, a Fulbright scholar and Tufts University graduate student residing in Massachusetts on a valid student visa who is detained by ICE for advocating for human rights and dignity for all.   On Tuesday, March 25th, Rümeysa was heading out to meet with friends to break her Ramadan fast when she was abducted by masked, plainclothes agents who didn’t identify themselves until after she asked who […]

From our colleagues at WOAW-UAW: WOAW-UAW represents approximately 30% of faculty ​​and teaches 40% of the courses across all disciplines, from Lecturers to Instructors in Science Laboratory to Mellon Postdoctoral Fellows. Since May 2024, the WOAW-UAW bargaining committee has been negotiating with Wellesley over all issues pertaining to our work. Despite 23 bargaining sessions, spanning

From our colleagues at SEIU: Tomorrow, SEIU is taking action across the country to defend our freedom of speech and to declare that all immigrants deserve due process and transparency. At more than 10 ICE detention centers and field offices, on college campuses, or wherever we can take a minute to participate online, we’re going

From our colleagues at United Campus Workers of Kentucky: Last week was devastating for the students, staff, and faculty at Kentucky’s public universities, and for everyone concerned about the state of postsecondary education in our Commonwealth. But it was not unexpected, and our coalition still has important work to do going forward. Now that Representative

From our colleagues at Student Workers of Columbia (UAW Local 2710): Columbia University abandoned GSAPP PhD candidate Ranjani Srinivasan to abduction by ICE, cancelling her student status and housing agreement without due process. She was forced to leave the country for Canada, where she is currently. Columbia has made its students less safe under already

The Faculty and Staff Federation of Community College of Philadelphia (FSFCCP), which just had a 97% approval strike authorization with almost 90% participation, is under attack.  Today, the PA Labor Relations Board (PLRB) announced that they will appoint a fact finder. This move is a delay tactic that draws out our already long-overdue fight for a

From our colleagues at United Academics of Maryland (UAM): We have been fighting in Annapolis for collective bargaining legislation for all faculty and librarians in Maryland higher ed institutions for the last three years. It has been a tough fight, but we may be on the cusp of a major breakthrough. It seems likely that

From our colleagues at PSU-AAUP: Unfortunately even after over 170 hours of PSU-AAUP bargaining, mediation, and impasse, the Cudd administration is resisting making meaningful changes to layoff protections or respecting shared governance, resisting giving academic professionals a livable COLA or any annual payscale, and delaying a contract which has bilingual pay for BIPOC academic professionals