Adam Sparks @[email protected]

this place is lost. i've moved to @[email protected]

[Adam Sparks @[email protected] @AdamMSparks]

i'm out. this place is bad.

[catherine liu @bureaucatliu]

Just got an email from UC Faculty Senate (our nominal rep body we got instead of a Union) saying that if we withhold final grades, they might withhold our salaries. @uaw2865

[Ward 2 Hamilton @Ward2Hamilton]

It's a brand new day in Ward 2! Thrilled to have @liesraetome and @haskhan6 as part of the Ward 2 Team. It's their first day at City Hall! You can reach us at [email protected], call us at [phone], or send us a DM here. #HamOnt

[UAW 4811 @uaw_4811]

TODAY - Academic Workers at @UCLA deliver an Unfair Labor Practice directly to the office of the Dean of the Life Sciences. Their retaliation doesn't scare us. They're retaliating because they're afraid!

[Adam Sparks @[email protected] @AdamMSparks]

@U_JA_Espinoza so you concede the genius strategy! covid --> gerontocracy

[Alex Usher @AlexUsherHESA]

1/ So, remember that excange of letters between @laurentianu and the the Ministry of Colleges and Universities just prior to insolvency? The ones that were kept sealed by the judge because they would have been predjudicial to LU? They've been unsealed today.

[Katy Ong PhD @KatyOng1]

#FairUCNow #UAWonStrike I'm starting out week 3 strong, bright and early tomorrow at West Crescent. Made some badges, come grab one at the check in table. And also let me know if you have any ideas for future designs!

[CUPE Local 3906 @cupe_3906]

TAs and RAs at @mcmasteru have been on strike since November 21st. We want a #BetterMac.

Send a message to the admin here: https://t.co/RojeLxIbIH

[CUPE Local 3906 @cupe_3906]

Good morning from Day 5 on the picket lines. We’re staying strong and remain committed to a #BetterMac

Send the admin a message here: https://t.co/RojeLxHDT9

📸 credit to @cmsmolenaars

[Joey @jbburant]

#GradStudents are arguably *the* primary producers of #research output at Canadian universities, and core contributors to the #teaching and #leadership missions of their institutions.

**But how (and how well) are they compensated?**

Let's take a look! A long thread 🧵👇

(1/n)

[Dani (she/her) @danimanitoba1]

Talking about accessibility at @uog.

I’m so grateful to you @jbburant for this excellent thread covering the financial hardships graduate students in Canada face.

I pay nearly 9k in tuition as a PhD student. I live in another province. I felt I had to move 1/7

[Alex Blacutt @MycoAggression]

Thrilled to not just see coverage of the #FairUCNow strike in @Nature, but to see them reject the disgraceful claim that graduate researchers only work part time
https://t.co/9qNSonvBt4

[CUPE Local 3906 @cupe_3906]

70k in the UK, 48k in California, 2800 TAs/RAs in Hamilton. Academic workers are shaking up #highered.

[Harry Dyer @HarryTDyer]

#ucuRISING #UCUstrike

Here's why I'm striking.

Whilst I was studying for my PhD I had to take on some teaching work to pay the bills. I couldn't afford to rent a flat or even a hotel on what I was paid. So for 2 years I slept on the library floor every night before lectures

[Danny Heinz @DannyHeinz57]

@uc_faculty @UofCalifornia

I want to speak to faculty who feel hurt, blindsided, and angry about the #FairUCNow strike. Faculty are most immediately hurt by these strikes, and it can feel unfair especially for those who have spent their career trying to make grad ed better.

[Danny Heinz @DannyHeinz57]

Across the UC, 48,000 unionized academic workers voted to authorize a strike with 98% support. Many of us will be gone in a year or so. We won't benefit. We will miss wages. Our research (which we care about as much as you do) will be held up.

We aren't doing this to hurt you.

[David Huyssen @davidhuyssen.bsky.social @davidhuyssen]

My union is on strike.

My previous union is on strike.

My union before that just had to threaten a strike to win a new contract.

My first union is still fighting for recognition.

This is academic labor today.

Seems like universities could use better leadership.

[CUPE Ontario's University Sector @CUPEOUWCC]

.@cupe_3906 is on strike for good jobs and good pay!

Let the McMaster University administration know it’s time for a #BetterMac at https://t.co/vu1lrzgGZX

#onpoli #onlab #canlab #onpse #McMasterStrike