After more than a year without a contract and in the face of continued regressive bargaining by management, the AAUP’s staff union has announced IT'S TIME TO STRIKE.
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The @NEAStaffUnion is asking the nation's largest union, @NEAToday, to live up to its values. Join me in supporting their fight for a fair contract: https://t.co/HNhrIsEZdy
On Strike! The US-AAUP members of the Department of Academic Freedom, Tenure and Governance walked off the job today; the strike is the first in a series of planned rolling one-day ULP strikes as the @AAUP management fails to bargain in good faith. https://t.co/BryMzfLA1B
WE DID IT! The #AICWU bargaining cmte for AIC/SAIC staff has reached a tentative agreement on our first union contract with mgmt. We are elated, relieved & eager to share details of this historic agreement w/ AICWU members at ratification meetings to be set very soon. Solidarity!
In my almost 101 years, while I have served other posts, I have been, at my core, a writer.
A writer who struggled and anguished to put words to paper that would provoke, create conversation, humanize us, help us see each other -- words that would matter. 1/4
An honor to help purchase hundreds copies of these other necessary books that were banned last month. Anyone can now get them for free at the Sanctuary for Banned Books at The Coral Gables Congregational Church at the giveaway tonight 6pm ET. There'll be a poetry reading too, featuring my fellow inaugural poet @rblancopoet !
BREAKING: TV & movie writers just voted to authorize a strike that could shut down Hollywood.
Writers are making less than they were 10 years ago, while corporate profits have skyrocketed.
They're not standing for it.
I want to say this. Pay for your news. Support public radio. Subscribe to the NYT and others. Journalism matters. It’s been bartered and discredited by those who stand to benefit. But everyone has the power to change that.
On the newest episode of AAUP Presents, we talk about the legal arguments made over #studentdebtrelief at the Supreme Court this week and what's ahead. Listen now and subscribe to hear future episodes: https://t.co/rgXeSh8AHT
The text of DeSantis' higher education bill has been released. It's as terrifying as the press release suggested it would be. Florida HB 999 would enact the most draconian and censorious restrictions on higher education in the history of this country. https://t.co/mTsNuSryt4