TAU @ WMU

The official twitter feed of The Teaching Assistants Union (TAU-AFT 1729) at Western Michigan University #Unions4All #UnionStrong #Solidarity

[TAU @ WMU @TAUAFT]

Oh, and while you’re here: sign our petition too! https://t.co/Jja504dNfn

[TAU @ WMU @TAUAFT]

And not just recent pleas, but ones made during the first few months of @ProfessorJVH’s time at WMU. @PIOatWMU @WMUAAUP

[WMU-AAUP @WMUAAUP]

@ProfessorJVH relying on labor-hostile lawyers despite the ongoing pleas from all our academic labor unions-@TAUAFT, @PIOatWMU, & @WMUAAUP-about the abuse being directed at employees. Could someone please explain to him that actions speak louder than words? @AAUP @AFT @chronicle

[TAU @ WMU @TAUAFT]

Happy world teachers day😊 The world keeps spinning with the magic of teachers. Please celebrate a teacher today🙏

[TAU @ WMU @TAUAFT]

Come out, let’s link up as fellow TAs

[AFL-CIO ✊ @AFLCIO]

Happy Labor Day from America's labor movement!

Today we celebrate how far we've come. Tomorrow we keep demanding better.

#ItsBetterInAUnion

[TAU @ WMU @TAUAFT]

Happy Labor Day!

[Grad Employees' Org UMich @geo3550]

BREAKING: Grad Workers Vote for Tentative Agreement (TA) with U-M

Winning a living wage for most PhD students and major gains in harassment protections, police abolition, and parent & transgender grad care, the TA is a testament to the power of our strike.

[olivia stowell @oliviastowell]

well. @UMich has officially docked all pay but $100 for april from its grad workers, putting many of us in a position of dangerous financial precarity. friends/allies, please consider donating to @geo3550 strike fund at https://t.co/NlE4QIQXh6. we need all the help we can get ✊

[TAU @ WMU @TAUAFT]

Proof that you *can* lead an academic institution with integrity while supporting the people that make the university run!

@WMUAAUP @PIOatWMU @WesternMichU @WesternHerald @AFTunion @geo3550 @UMich

[WMU-AAUP @WMUAAUP]

Looking forward to connecting with our @TAUAFT and @PIOatWMU colleagues today. When we stand together in solidarity and fight, our students win! @aftmichigan @AAUP @geo3550 @ruaaup @AFTunion @WesternMichU @afscmemichigan @ProgressMich #PhD #AcademicChatter

[TAU @ WMU @TAUAFT]

Just woke up and thought we would check the to do list. 🗒️

Looks like we’re spending the afternoon with @WMUAAUP to discuss shared concerns and strengthen our alliance.

Then we need to send @geo3550 some good strike vibes as they continue to fight for what they deserve. ✊🏿✊🏻✊🏾

[TAU @ WMU @TAUAFT]

Good morning to everyone at @UMich EXCEPT those that are working to further promote systemic inequities and trying to break the strike.

Enjoy the sun on the line today friends 🌞😎

[Grad Employees' Org UMich @geo3550]

We will win a living wage and a fair contract.

@UMich can do the right thing now, save the costs of its failed strikebreaking attempts, and stop the ongoing disruption to the education of almost 50,000 students.

[Dave Kamper 🌹 @dskamper]

It is **illegal** for public employees in Michigan to strike, yet a judge has just refused to issue an injunction against @geo3550's strike .

What's going on?

One of my biggest hobbyhorses is that labor folks should get the words "can" and "can't" out of their vocabulary.

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[More Perfect Union @MorePerfectUS]

A judge has now ruled twice against the University of Michigan’s efforts to force striking graduate students back to work.

Judge Carol Kuhnke declined to issue a restraining order or grant a preliminary injunction against the 2,000 grad students of @geo3550 who are on strike.

[TAU @ WMU @TAUAFT]

Absolutely unacceptable and gross. Employee concerns are to be listened to, not crushed with legal action. @WMUAAUP @PIOatWMU @WesternMichU @WesternHerald @geo3550

[Grad Employees' Org UMich @geo3550]

Today in court after admitting they were only able to find a single undergrad to testify in their favor, @UMich’s lawyers compared GEO’s strike to domestic violence. Comparing striking grad workers to domestic abusers is completely reprehensible. 🧵1/4

[TAU @ WMU @TAUAFT]

@ruaaup @RutgersU Sending you solidarity vibes from Michigan!

[TAU @ WMU @TAUAFT]

Incredible news for our colleagues in @geo3550 and a huge win for labor more broadly! Hold the line!

[Grad Employees' Org UMich @geo3550]

INJUNCTION DENIED

[TAU @ WMU @TAUAFT]

Got a few minutes to spare today? Make a quick call to support our friends in @geo3550!

It’s more important now than ever that universities in Michigan, like @UMich and @WesternMichU listen to the reasonable demands of graduate workers to be treated with dignity and respect.

[Grad Employees' Org UMich @geo3550]

⚡️☎️ PHONE ZAP ☎️⚡️

Starting tomorrow (Friday) morning - call to tell Academic HR (734-763-8938) and Provost Laurie McCauley (734-764-9290) to drop the attestation forms and all strike-breaking tactics.

Call multiple times and call often. #RingRingFairContract 1/2

[TAU @ WMU @TAUAFT]

The writing should be on the walls for @WesternMichU: Grad students deserve to be taken seriously and listened to, not lawyered up against. @WMUAAUP @geo3550 @wwmtnews @WesternHerald

[WMU-AAUP @WMUAAUP]

It’s time for universities like ⁦@UMich⁩ and ⁦@WesternMichU⁩ to be responsive to faculty and grad students instead of calling on “the law” to deal with them ⁦@AAUP⁩ ⁦@geo3550⁩ ⁦@MLive⁩ ⁦@wwmtnews⁩ ⁦@AFTHigherEd⁩ ⁦ https://t.co/xVu9UKglBB

[TAU @ WMU @TAUAFT]

We stand in solidarity with our colleagues in @geo3550 and call on @UMich to provide a living wage for grad employees now!!! 24k is shameful and disrespectful to its core.

[Grad Employees' Org UMich @geo3550]

Tonight our members moved to STRIKE! Join us on the Diag this WEDNESDAY at 10:24 AM as we WALK OUT and walk away from $24K—we’re striking for a living wage! When we stand together, we stand strong!

[TAU @ WMU @TAUAFT]

With all the talk of layoffs and changes at Twitter it seems like as good a time as any to bring up that the tech industry needs more unions. They’d have a fight on their hands with their new union buster boss but we wish twitter’s workers well ✊