We are organizing in a right-to-work state against a hostile administration. We are humbled by the donations to our Strike Fund. If you are able, your donations will help us keep fighting to make history at Indiana University. gofundme.com/f/igwcue-strik…

One factor that never gets mentioned in these conversations is that academia's labor abuses would be illegal if educators were not #DoubleExempt (overtime & minimum wage exempt employees who are also exempt from the minimum salary requirement) nytimes.com/2022/04/06/us/…

“The union representing contingent faculty at the UC has been fighting the uncompensated positions for years, said Mia McIver, the president of the union, which represents about 7,000 members. ‘The fact that it is common does not excuse it,’ she said.” nytimes.com/2022/04/06/us/…

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Solidarity Indiana Grad Workers Coalition ! Get what you deserve! #IUonStrike22

Systemwide, the student to ladder faculty ratio has grown from 25 to 1 fifteen years ago to 28 to 1 now. Meanwhile, there are 600 fewer core Professional and Support Staff than there were 5 years ago. How thinly does UC think faculty and staff can be stretched?

All very cool indeed!

Twitter asking for phone number verification. Always fun to get in the middle of an emerging corporate panic about unionization.

The Regents discussion of UC Berkeley strategic plan has been deferred to September's meeting but here is a thread on issues that are pertinent to faculty. The full report is here regents.universityofcalifornia.edu/regmeet/july22…

The only way to square this circle is the growth of cheaper, untenured lecturers. The number of lecturers has grown from 637 in April 2011 to 1,029 in April 2021. They now teach 40% of student credit hours on campus UC-AFT Bay Area Chapter dailycal.org/2021/10/12/the…

Hear hear! Public education should be publicly funded.

Look >>>>>> the erosion of tenure and adjunctification of faculty has many consequences. Loss of income and job security, exploitation, decline of research, and loss of intellectual freedom >>>>> American Association of University Professors

Disgusting. Public universities are for public education, not profit and privation.

We love to see it! A win for one is a win for all!

I’m sorry, but this is awful advice for researcher strikes. Everyone’s labor is “entangled” with their personal progress and buying into the exceptionalism of STEM research as fundamentally different from other labor creates the STEM inequity described in this article.

Undergraduate student as well as graduate students workers -- and all the ways they make our universities work + all the multi-tiered contingent faculty + TT faculty + academic staff and librarians + service staff = one big labor movement Higher Education Labor United (HELU) thenation.com/article/activi…

The cause of labor is the hope of the world! Keep organizing to win am education for people, not profits. thenation.com/article/activi…

Want to get linked into and boost a nationwide effort of scholars + educators to demand fair funding, fair labor, fair tuition, and fair communities >>> CLICK here, SCROLL to bottom, enter email >>> #highered #Scholarship #professor scholarsforanewdealforhighered.org

Former adjunct's great exploration of the deskilling of teaching work, which hinders academic freedom and reproduces social inequality, both at the site of the classroom, &, as we've seen w/ UC's real estate investments, society-wide. How to fix? Organize. youtube.com/watch?v=lrN0NG…

Close to 9000 faculty and grad instructors and 67K students will be impacted by this strike. Our union is doing a great job getting everyone ready. Strike captain reporting for duty! 🫡