Solidarity Asks

This week, April 17, 2023, the Texas Senate is expected to debate and pass two bills that would take effect at all public colleges and universities in Texas on September 1, 2023: Senate Bill 18 would eliminate granting of tenure for all faculty members;Senate Bill 17 would ban DEI (Diversity, Equity and Inclusion) offices, officers, […]

We are the AAUP-AFT, the PTLFC, and BHSNJ and our three unions represent several groups of faculty and other campus employees, including medical faculty, part-time lecturers, graduate students, non-tenure track faculty, and tenure track faculty, at Rutgers University, the flagship university of New Jersey. We have been bargaining for a new contract for nearly a

United Campus Workers of Arizona need your support to ensure fair working conditions for Contingent Faculty throughout the university system in Arizona. Contingent faculty now comprise at least 53% of all faculty appointments at UA and 61% at ASU, and these numbers continue to rise. Contingent Faculty members are disproportionately women and people of color. We teach the

Grad workers, GEO AFT-Michigan Local 3550, at the University of Michigan are raising money for a strike fund! Grad workers are not yet on strike, but we need to prepare for action if the university admin continues to refuse to offer meaningful solutions to the serious problems we’re facing. This fund will support grad workers

Goddard College staff, UAW 2322,  are fighting for a Goddard College true to is progressive mission that is able to thrive and grow by embracing respect, inclusion, and transparency for all its constituencies. The administration’s attacks on staff working conditions, authoritarian decision making, and violations of federal labor law deny this opportunity to renew and

Over 50 years ago, Berkeley students joined with other university students and civil rights activists from around the country to promote and expand voting rights in Mississippi. “Freedom Summer” remains an iconic moment in the Civil Rights movement, the history of student activism in the U.S., and in the political engagement culture at Berkeley as

Current graduate student stipends and benefits at Vanderbilt University’s Peabody College of Education and Human Development are not substantial enough to alleviate the severe economic burdens imposed by the increasing costs of living in the city of Nashville. Sign the petition for fair pay at Peabody. Most Peabody PhD student workers receive $28,000 stipends. This