Amber West

poet, educator

[Amber West @amberiwest]

@heckaseuss That is unacceptable and all too common. I think questioning whether it’s worth it is right on for so many reasons. 75% of faculty are adjuncts and the poverty and precarity of adjuncting make it hard to keep writing

[Amber West @amberiwest]

@LizzieCosmos @PaisleyRekdal That hard work leads to middle class financial security

[Asian American Feminist Collective @aafcollective]

Sign the open letter to call on the @SmithsonianAPA @smithsonian to be accountable to their abrupt and sudden cancellation of an important event for the Asian American community at large. This is hugely unfair and a big loss.

https://t.co/O8iLhPGBYi

[Bill McKibben @billmckibben]

Blackrock chooses the hottest month in human history to name the CEO of the biggest oil company on earth to its board. For all their greenwashing, they clearly care nothing about our future.
https://t.co/pMIBpDlAV8

[UAW 4811 @uaw_4811]

In an unconscionable move by the UC, University of California Police arrested 3 workers on felony charges and confiscated their possessions for writing messages in chalk and washable paint calling on UC to stop underpaying workers.🧵

[Trevor Griffey @TrevorGriffey]

@NewUniversity

[University Council - AFT @UCAFT]

We must fight back against UC management's cuts to undergraduate instruction to ensure that all of our colleagues receive the reappointments they deserve. Stand with lecturers now by sending letters to @UCPrezDrake and the EVCs on every UC campus now @ https://t.co/lNYzGakfMg

[University Council - AFT @UCAFT]

You have the right to be considered for reappointment before external apps. Decisions should be based on an assessment of your teaching and you should receive your reappointment before the end of the quarter (5/1 sem, 6/1 quar) - if you haven't, tell us https://t.co/kAKbIO8zD6

[University Council - AFT @UCAFT]

Having failed to fund @uaw2865's hard-won contract, UC admin is using the "budgetary emergency" to make significant cuts to undergraduate education. Layoffs of teaching faculty and increases to instructional workloads hurt our members, our families, and our students 🧵

[Amber West @amberiwest]

Disgusting!

[AFSCME Local 3299 @afscme3299]

UC's "investment rewards the financial firm only a few years after the company and its executives spent $5.6 million to kill California ballot initiatives that would have expanded rent control in the state."

https://t.co/Ge7sRGlNch

[Amber West @amberiwest]

@TrevorGriffey @UCAFT $100 is alot for what I make currently, but I wouldn't feel it was alot if I made more. I'd love it if the dues could be re-scaled somehow- maybe so $100/mo. doesn't kick in until you're at $100k/yr.? Is that too cheap of me?

[AFSCME Local 3299 @afscme3299]

📝 The University of California is a public institution that has invested billions in a private company that profits off of working families, like ours.

👇 Call on @UofCalifornia to DIVEST from Blackstone and INVEST in affordable housing instead.

🔗https://t.co/7dftzRQLIq

[Nina Turner @ninaturner]

Our current system is a 13 year tuition-free public school system that puts students in tens of thousands of dollars in debt to finish their schooling.

The alternative is expanding the system to be an 18 year tuition-free public school system that puts no one in debt.

Advocating for the alternative is billed as “extreme”

[AFSCME Local 3299 @afscme3299]

Overrated: Overpaid UC Chancellors

Underrated: All of us who actually run UC

[University Council - AFT @UCAFT]

When an employer is giving healthy raises to some workers and laying off others, you know there’s something going on.

Click to tell Laurie San Martin, @mikapelo @atekwanae & @provostcroughan that gender discrimination is unacceptable in @UCDavisMusic .
https://t.co/ixXonfSNeO

[Christopher Newfield @cnewf]

@UCBerkeley is closing renowned anthropology library to save $400,000/yr (on annual operating revenues of $2.2 billion). Chancellor Christ blames grad student workers for getting a raise https://t.co/m2ZLWrPQ7K @ucsb4cola @CharmaineSChua @FacultyBerkeley

[Dr. Ian Reed Kelley 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @IanReed86]

Get it together UCOP. Do what's best for your workers and your students.

[University Council - AFT @UCAFT]

Beloved @ucdavis Lecturer/Choral Director Erik Peregrine is being laid off by @UCDavisMusic. Please sign & share to save faculty jobs at the @UofCalifornia. Tell Laurie San Martin, @mikapelo @atekwanae & @provostcroughan to rescind this unnecessary layoff! https://t.co/0AORo7cVGx

[University Council - AFT @UCAFT]

We fought for over 2.5 years to improve our wages and job security. Now UC mgmt is using the "budgetary emergency" they created by failing to provide funding for the hard-won @uaw2865 contract to layoff great teachers. #ShameOnUC #UnionBustingIsDisgusting https://t.co/occbrYKwTh

[AFSCME Local 3299 @afscme3299]

UC has the duty to serve students, patients, & workers.

The University can be fiduciary responsible w/o supporting a company known for fueling the housing affordability crisis.

We're calling on UC to DIVEST from Blackstone & INVEST in affordable housing development instead!