Next Thursday! Join members of FSFCCP, TAUP, TUGSA, AAUP-Penn, Higher Ed Labor United, AAUP, Philly AFL-CIO & more at the Community College of Philadelphia on 10/17 for a Town Hall on the election and national priorities from the labor movement for the future of higher ed!
The Black Student Union has been kicked out of the student center. We're now back in the 1960s.
“University officials told The Crimson White, a student news group, that the decision was made in accordance with state Senate Bill 129, which prohibits public higher education institutions from funding diversity, equity and inclusion programs and offices.”
The University of Alabama is requiring the Black Student Union, a minority advocacy group, to close its current office in the flagship’s student center, according to a BSU Instagram post. Union…
Management does this tired little anti-union song and dance every time because they know they have something to lose, and because workers have a lot to win. Unions belong at Penn!
✅ and no anti-union website would be complete without a little threat of hard bargaining… because who doesn’t love an employer who promises to fight them for years at the bargaining table? 🙄
✅ more third-partying (“if AFSCME wins”) ✅ scare tactics about dues, which we’re guessing library workers know they would pay only after they successfully negotiate and ratify a contract that leaves them better off
✅ and presenting websites full of classic anti-union talking points as neutral sources of “information” or FAQs
Still ticking many of the usual boxes: ✅ Conflating workers with mgmt (“As librarians and staff of Penn Libraries, *we*…”) ✅ Third-partying the union (“We respect your right to engage or not engage with a labor union”)—um, you are talking to the labor union, i.e. librarians
Another day, another anti-union website—but Penn’s favorite union-busting law firm is kind of phoning it in lately, probably because they know our colleagues in Penn Libraries United are ready to win
UNC is redirecting DEI funding to campus police and using protests as part of the rationale. We live in hell. www.wunc.org/education/20...
This is amazing example of the modern neoliberal university. This idea that complex situations can be solved by the application of online quizzes purchased from a third-party vendor.
NYU is punishing those students arrested at the protests by compelling them to write reflection papers and complete “integrity modules” — all managed through an external SaaS vendor called Symplicity Corp, which was itself charged with criminal hacking 🤪 www.instagram.com/p/C66pPceup1...
2,275 likes, 99 comments - nyu_fsjp on May 13, 2024: "🚨BREAKING: NYU is embarrassing itself. They are punishing arrested students through forced racist re-education training. But there’s...".