There is still a chance that some of these jobs can be restored. We call on everyone who cares for the welfare of workers and the future of higher ed: DO NOT SCAB for Columbia. Sign & share our open letter: tinyurl.com/core-open-lett…

Our non-tenured colleagues who teach many of these classes are already reporting mandatory class size increases across the board. When you expel the undergrads, don’t train the graduates, and overwork the faculty, who will want to live, work, and study at Columbia?

A week before classes were set to begin, Columbia University informed around 140 unionized graduate student workers that they had been removed from their teaching duties. The university is hiring nonunion adjunct instructors to do the work instead. jacobin.com/2025/08/columb…

The attack on student unions is an attack - in concert with Trump - on the better version of the university we are fighting for. Thank you Amann Mahajan for covering our and Harvard Grad Students Union-UAW Local 5118's contract campaigns against corporate universities.

📰PRESS RELEASE: Columbia University Begins School Year by Filing an NLRB Charge that Risks Student Workers’ Right to Unionize Nationwide

"The unfortunate reality is that graduate workers have to defend ourselves not only from Trump, but also from administrators” “Many graduate student workers are concerned that university administrators will respond to attacks on higher ed by passing the hardship on to workers”

It’s #TCAlumniDay and we’ve been busy flyering! Thank you to all the alumni who showed solidarity with the student workers of Teachers College today as we continue to organize and fight for our right to make a democratic choice about union recognition. Your support matters!

October 21 is #Columbiagivingday. Instead of picking up the bill for CU’s corruption, donate to the Student Worker Aid Collective, an independent mutual aid fund run by workers. opencollective.com/student-worker…

The New York Metro Coalition for Higher Ed is hosting a cross campus meeting for higher ed workers across the New York metro area. And we and AAUP - NYU Chapter are hosting! Join us on October 28 and 6:30 in Cantor. RSVP here: docs.google.com/forms/d/1Y0Y6U…

“Disciplining union members for protected, concerted activity reveals just how far Columbia University leadership has fallen, prioritizing political submission to the Trump agenda over fair treatment & rights of their own employees.” — Todd Wolfson, AAUP President American Association of University Professors

"As Universities Fold to Trump, This Union Is Still Fighting for International Students." UAW Region 6 | UAW 4811 ow.ly/RH6J50XE3Wp

Thank you, The Blue and White, for this insightful piece. Bargaining "has shed light, not only on the lengths Columbia will go to in order to suppress the full breadth of demands from the Union, but also on the particular vulnerability of the student-worker identity."

"If the University is determined to use the vulnerable double identity of student and worker, so can we. Just as these identities are intertwined, so are their aims…Real collective power at the University requires students and workers to recognize solidarity and build coalition"

🚨 UAW STATEMENT IN SOLIDARITY WITH THE FIGHT FOR JUSTICE IN MINNESOTA 🚨 The UAW stands in solidarity with the people of Minnesota, including hundreds of UAW members, who are standing up and fighting back against the federal government’s abuses and attacks on the working class.

Join us to help win a graduate student worker union at Teachers College! We will give some important updates, collectively strategize, and make a plan for our next steps this semester. Light snacks and drinks provided. Follow us and DM with any questions!

UAW STATEMENT ON THE PASSING OF REV. JESSE JACKSON The UAW mourns the passing of Rev. Jesse Jackson, a leader who never wavered in his commitment to working people and the labor movement, and whose bond with the United Auto Workers spanned decades of shared struggle for justice.