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Coordinating worker organizing, policy development, and political advocacy across higher ed labor in the U.S.
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Seasons greetings. Wishing you all a safe and organised festive season.
Call for proposals: we're putting together a great program for our May conference in #Tacoma, #Washington, and if you're working in #labor #history in the #PNW, we want you to be part of it! We are especially interested in hearing from folks doing nontraditional #organizing or with diverse historical perspectives you'd like to share. Non-academic speakers are encouraged.
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Labor costs increased 5.3% over the past year. But prices rose 7.1%.
The real purchasing power of American workers continues to drop.
This is absolutely not the time for more interest rate hikes that make it even harder for working people to keep the lights on. Hello?
"states got out of the business of supporting higher education at the same time the cost of delivering that education was increasing. All of this has contributed to perceptions and assertions about the diminished value/importance/relevance of higher education today..."
On The Public Good And Orders-Of-Magnitude Conundrum In US #HigherEd
May or may not have chanted "union contract!" when the university administrators processed past the faculty seating to leave graduation this afternoon.Only loud enough for them to hear - the orchestra was playing. #facultyunion #labor #organizedlabor #unionyes #workerrights #fairpay
A decision to #strike among the less-well paid is never taken lightly (due to the loss of pay in the short term) & during this #winterofdiscontent we should all recognise the strikers have been backed into a corner & are saying #EnoughIsEnough!
That rich politicians & commentators think this is a choice by 'militants' reveals that for them (with their savings & wealth) a strike might be discretionary politics, a choice made ideologically... but for the real strikers this is about life & death!
The #strike is finally over at #TheNewSchool. I am feeling relieved. #Solidarity was painful but it worked.
In Just One Year, Starbucks Workers Have Won 267 Union Elections
https://jacobin.com/2022/12/starbucks-workers-united-one-year-anniversary-organizing-seiu
#unions
Solidarity with the UC workers who are in their fourth week of the biggest strike in US higher education history. Let me remind you: absent the workers in a university, there's nothing. Workers not only deserve better wages & benefits, the quality of a UC education depends on it.
RT @MorePerfectUS@twitter.com
NEW: Delta pilots just won a 34% raise after voting 99% to authorize a strike.
They're leading an uprising of pilots against management at all of America's largest airlines.
Like rail workers, pilots have gone years without a raise & say they’ve hit their breaking point.
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/MorePerfectUS/status/1600583313370255360
If we can spend ~$850 billion on defense, why can't we guarantee paid sick leave and provide health care for all Americans?
Fun fact: part of the reason why "rankings of colleges will always be with us" is that there will always be enough people repeating that "rankings of colleges will always be with us."
#rankings #highered
https://digitaledition.chicagotribune.com/infinity/article_share.aspx?guid=21ebe465-943e-4362-8558-3b62ae753557
Rail Unions call for nationwide rallies in support of Railroad Workers! Main rally Tuesday 12/13/22. List includes states all over the US. https://myemail.constantcontact.com/Action-Alert--Rail-Unions-Call-Solidarity-Rallies-of-Rail-Workers-12-13-22.html?soid=1116509035139&aid=31Xa2GTg6_M #railroading #railroaders #unions #strike #wildcat #rail #RailWorkers #rwu #railroad #RailStrike #DSA #labor #1u #organizers #protest
@SueASmith it is astonishing that the Government would assume a likely backlash. Their stance on #unions and #strikes shows a complete lack of understanding that these people working in the #PublicSector are professionals; highly educated, woefully underpaid, overworked, understaffed, and at breaking point in systems which are crumbling. The very electorate which #UKGovernment needs to value and cherish. Public support remains as we are all affected by the underfunding of these services.
This year was a big one for #unions. Preliminary data (that's going to be revised up) shows election wins are the highest since 2015. #Strikes are up nearly 50 percent this year. https://www.vox.com/recode/23451232/2022-crypto-inflation-abortion-flu-remote-ukraine
#Labor organizers in #Texas are fighting to ensure #renewable energy workers are skilled tradespeople—not just exploited temps.
From Lee Harris at The American Prospect:
Re-sharing my upcoming GC CUNY course on Power, Precarity, & Care in Digital Humanities. I've shifted it to online in hopes that that works for more folks. Would appreciate a boost! Enrollment is low and it needs more signups to run. It's gonna be really good 🔥 https://dhprecarity.commons.gc.cuny.edu/ #DigitalHumanities #gradSchool #cuny #labor #higherEd
Learn about the #history of #unionization in the #VideoGame industry in Polygon's The Rise of the Video #Game #Union.
"For decades, #studios across the industry and the globe, studios both big and small, have pushed their workers to the limit through low pay, brutal crunch, and discrimination. ... #Workers had little leverage, and employers wielded creative careers as a cudgel, saying that game developers should feel lucky to be able to do what they love."
https://www.polygon.com/23485977/video-game-unions-guide-explainer
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