POSTED BY MARTIN KICH Walkouts Held at 3 Seattle Community Colleges to Protest Funding Crisis Faculty, staff and students at South Seattle College, Seattle Central College and North Seattle College participated in walkouts on their campuses from 8:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. Tuesday [April 16]. They say state funding has dropped, causing tuition to rise to…
BY COLLEEN DALY MARTINEZ WITH MARIAN AHN THORPE The part-time lecturer (PTL) unit of the Rutgers AAUP-AFT union is fighting for longer, more secure contracts, salary increases, and healthcare for PTLs. The full-time faculty and graduate unit reached a tentative agreement on April 16. Marian Ahn Thorpe, a graduate member of Rutgers AAUP-AFT, interviewed PTL…
BY JULIE SCHMID As we move into the final months of the academic year, I wanted to share updates about three recent wins. These three successes emphasize the power of collective action and solidarity—among chapter members; among the national AAUP and our state conferences and chapters; and among faculty, students, and the community—when we all…
BY LEO WELCH Leo Welch is the Vice President of the Illinois AAUP. The anti-union right-wing Republicans finally got a U.S. Supreme Court decision that they predicted would destroy unions once and for all. The Janus decision was preceded by two other attempts which included Abood v. Detroit Board of Education which held that union…
BY JOHN K. WILSON I was intrigued by a Facebook post yesterday from the National Association of Scholars which announced, “Want a promotion? Too bad; you’re not a union member, says St. Cloud State.” That’s a shocking claim. Or it would be, except that there’s no evidence that it’s true. The post linked to an…
POSTED BY AAUP STAFF A clear majority of faculty at the University of New Mexico have declared their support for unionization in an official election petition filed today with the UNM Labor Management Relations Board. The UNM bargaining unit, comprising more than 1,600 full- and part-time faculty on five campuses—UNM’s main campus, in Albuquerque; UNM-Gallup;…
BY HANK REICHMAN Today Democracy Now!, the daily, global, independent news hour hosted by award-winning journalists Amy Goodman and Rutgers University professor Juan González, ran a feature about the strike at Wright State University, which featured an interview with AAUP President and chief Wright State negotiator Rudy Fichtenbaum. You can watch it here:
BY TOM ROONEY With permission, we are sharing the text of a Facebook post by Tom Rooney, AAUP-WSU treasurer and member of the union’s negotiating team. He wrote it this morning, after Wright State University faculty and the WSU administration came to a tentative agreement, ending the faculty strike that began on January 22. A journey…
BY AAUP STAFF Congratulations to Wright State University faculty for a hard-fought agreement with the administration! The AAUP-WSU strike is over and faculty returned to work this morning in a victory for faculty, students, and quality higher education. The blog includes a number of recent posts about the strike. Below are links to just a…
BY MARTIN KICH This open letter was posted on the faculty listserve at Wright State by Julie L. Williams, Psy.D., ABPP, a Professor and Board Certified Rehabilitation Psychologist in the Wright State University-School of Professional Psychology. She has given permission to re-post it. Good afternoon…. For the past 3 weeks, I have read the strike-related email threads,…