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‘The University Is a Site of Struggle’—A Roundtable with Faculty Organizers on Repression and Resistance on US Campuses
Andrew Ross: Let me begin on a personal note. My employer, when it’s not calling the NYPD to arrest me and my colleagues and students, is always actively encouraging me to retire. Last summer, NYU offered a sweet retirement package, and I thought long and hard about taking it. Everyone was saying it’s a good time…
Truthout: First-Ever Bargaining Compact Unites Higher Ed Unions Across Northeastern US
When East Coast members of Higher Education Labor United (HELU) got together in January, they set their sights on developing a national plan to improve working conditions for university and college faculty and staff, enhance learning conditions for students, and build lasting partnerships with local communities to promote the common good. Together, they drafted a document called the…
WNY Labor Today – The Amherst Compact: United University Professions ‘Joins A Coalition Of More Than 50 Higher Ed Unions To Back First-Ever Higher Ed Union Contract Bargaining Priorities Pact’
“By standing together, Higher Education Unions can use their collective power to push for gains that wouldn’t have been possible otherwise,” UUP President Fred Kowal said. “A regional bargaining strategy can help raise the standards of employment for Unions out there negotiating new agreements. As a founding member of Higher Education Labor United, UUP believes…
Chronicle of Higher Ed: Can a New Pact Help Higher-Ed Workers Secure Better Pay?
The so-called Amherst Compact was written by local and state union representatives who met at a summit organized by Higher Education Labor United in January at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. The unions in the compact represent workers in nine states — Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, and Vermont…
The Guardian: Students and faculty at over 100 US universities protest against Trump’s attacks
Students, faculty and staff at more than 100 campuses across the US rallied against the Trump administration’s assault on higher education on Friday – the first in a planned series of nationwide, coordinated protests that organizers hope will culminate in large-scale students’ and workers’ strikes next May Day and a nationwide general strike in May 2028.…
Teen Vogue: How The Trump Admin's Attack on Higher Education and DEI Are Impacting Campuses
“This compact [is] starting with nine colleges and universities, but we know that this is just the beginning of this latest escalation in this administration’s continuous attacks on higher education,”said Evan Bowman, vice chair of Higher Education Labor United, in a statement issued by Sunrise. “Workers, students, campus community members across this great country are coming…