When 48,000 UAW Academic Workers go on strike on Monday, Nov 14, senate faculty at the University of California have a legally-protected right under the Higher Education Employment Relations Act (HEERA) to respect the picket line. Some reasons + resources for showing solidarity:

Can we get a Big Fucking Solidarity Forever for the almost 50,000 workers on strike at the University of California? The fight of @uaw2865 Student Researchers United-UAW @uaw5810 is everyone's fight: the demand for 54K minimum salaries doubles as a fight for a fully-funded public education system.

Some may wonder why, on the eve of the strike, UC did not move another offer to see whether we’d blink at the last second, a one-time last-best-final offer, which, they might have warned, we’d never see again if we go through with the strike.

At a meeting yesterday morning, some on the bargaining team argued that this moment of collective power is the time to revoke the central demand of the negotiations, a demand that has been building for over 3 years: to permanently tie grad workers’ pay to the cost of living in CA

the people want a COLA

There are two paths forward, increasingly at odds with one another, that have congealed within the UC strike. #UAWonSTRIKE #FairUCNow

Hey UC workers! Columbia workers like me are tired of hearing lies about our contract to encourage premature concessions. NOBODY here thinks striking for longer hurt us. Read our open letter w/ over 100 member signatures and growing to decide for yourself docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

Statement from BT members who opposed the Tentative Agreement. #UAWonStrike #FairUCNow drive.google.com/file/d/1xbl62K…

The ratification vote on the tentative agreement reached by the two grad unit bargaining teams opens today. No participant in the strike, nor any observer of it, could deny that there is widespread disagreement about the TA, and that the ratification vote will be contentious. 🧵

"Then consider the indefinite strike. The pressure on the university does not fluctuate and dissipate. There is, first of all, a very strong incentive not to let such an action begin because of how difficult it might be to get staff back to work." notesfrombelow.org/article/how-st…

Always think of this clip when I see the British media establishment duty-shame emergency service workers for taking industrial action. It is truly obscene that public servants are expected to show dedication without remuneration. Solidarity to the health workers.

After six weeks on strike, we have voted to accept a contract. We write as union organizers from Santa Cruz, where workers on our campus voted No by a massive margin. Here is our perspective on ratification. 🧵 drive.google.com/file/d/14phR4l…

The majority of half our union members voted to ratify the contract. But our work does not end here. docs.google.com/document/d/1p4…

We have collated free resources that offer a clear history of the occupation, Israel's military industrial complex, and this latest explosion of violence in Gaza. This includes 6 free ebooks:

Congratulations to workers at The Stand Glasgow for leading the first successful “Serve Solidarity” boycott of apartheid products. They lead the way in Scotland’s working-class resistance to genocide in Palestine 🇵🇸 Hospitality workers, get involved: linktr.ee/glasgowhospita…

We’re ready 🫡

It's indisputable that Barclays Bank profits from the Genocide in Gaza. Our workers are tired of the lies and cannot tolerate complicity.

Barclays Bank profits from Genocide. A thread 🧵