I've had to take up second and third jobs just to make ends meet. When I have to do that, I can't focus on my research or my teaching. I'm just trying to get by and afford to live on Long Island!
@sbuprez @sbu_gseu @sbulivingwage#SBUFeeStrike#FarBeyond#StonyBrookStrong
By the by, the takeaway from Democratic losses tonight isn’t to be more moderate. It’s to be more dynamic. To have a vision. To embrace the future. To be an actual leader and not a boring, dead fish.
Over 22,000 US union members are now on strike:
10k @ Deere
3k @ Columbia U
2k @ Buffalo’s Mercy hospital
1.4k @ Kellogg’s
1.1k AL miners
1k WV hospital workers
800 Scranton educators
700 MA nurses
700 Kaiser engineers
500 OH steelworkers
450 WV steelworkers
300 NY Machinists
It’s sad that anon twitter is the only place many of us can talk about our troubles in the university. Most of us can’t trust anyone not to use our expressed frustrations against us at some point in the future without fear of job or economic loss. I feel so alone.
Ironic that @SBUPrez is hosting a symposium on inequality in higher education while grad workers are depleting limited family savings in order to survive #BoycottMcInnis#SBULivingWage
The membership and executive board of UUP SBU have officially endorsed our Living Wage Campaign petition and our demands for @stonybrooku admin to bargain with the GSEU on a living wage. This is solidarity! https://t.co/8ehF153GGG
Calling all graduate workers and allies! Hit the link to tell @NYSenate how S.4927 abolishing fees (a form of wage theft) would help @SUNY & @CUNY grad workers & end the practice of these workers paying up to 20% of their salary back to their employer!
https://t.co/ChycwtRn5e
Except for all the fees you'll have to pay.
Oh, and it's only funded for 4 or 5 years, even though you'll be here for at least six years, if not longer!
Solidarity with our colleagues in @uupmacsbu. We are calling on @stonybrooku to honor the telecommuting agreement and not push employees to return to campus during the spring.
https://t.co/IZUrsRcC6p