AAUP–Penn

We stand opposed to the war of choice that the Trump administration is waging with Iran. While millions of Americans are denied access to healthcare, the US is spending billions to kill civilians, including hundreds of children in Iran, while terrorizing cities and towns at home. No war. No kings. No ICE. Heather Pierce, President, Rutgers Adjunct Faculty Union Rebecca Givan, President, Rutgers AAUP-AFT

We stand opposed to the war of choice that the Trump administration is waging with Iran. @ruaaup-ptl.bsky.social
Read the full statement: https://rutgersaaup.org/statement-on-the-us-war-in-iran/

Join elected officials and community groups calling for statewide proposals to increase taxes on the richest New Yorkers and most profitable corporations, in addition to measures to raise city revenues. #TaxTheRich

Your turn to power map! Your turn to power map! 1 Make a copy of this presentation. (One copy per group.) Shortcut to this slide: bit.ly/djspowermap

Tried power mapping with my big lecture class and was pleased with the way it went. The assignment is here if you're interested in the logistics of it. docs.google.com/presentation...

The majority of faculty on campus work on semester contracts w/no job security. Even those with tenure can be denied due process. Don’t cut us out of collective bargaining. The higher ed lobbyist agenda is NOT pro-worker! @donscott757.bsky.social @senlouiselucas.bluesky.bot @ssurovell.bsky.social

Solidarity to the NYU faculty members as they prepare to strike.

University leadership must offer a deal that meets the moment: Stronger job security, higher wages, and academic freedom protections.

NYU, it’s time to give CFU-UAW a fair contract and also pay your RAs!

A ‘Terrible’ Night: Harvard Custodians Say They Scoured for Places to Sleep During Latest Blizzard | News | The Harvard Crimson As a snowstorm engulfed campus late Sunday, Harvard custodians working around-the-clock snow removal shifts said they were left scrambling for places to sleep, even as the University provided overnigh...

Richest university in the world and the janitors removing snow from campus during a blizzard had to sleep on the floor and in closets when they were stuck on campus overnight. Harvard's treatment of its workers remains absolutely shameful.

LET’S GOOOOOOOO

Next-level.

GET-UP Grads graphic: 99% of participating members voted yes to ratify a first-ever contract with the University of Penn.

Congratulations to graduate student research and teaching workers at the University of Pennsylvania, who just ratified their first-ever contract by an incredible 99% 🎉🎆🥳

I 🧡 GET-UP

I cannot wait to listen to this. As a fired fed who represents other fired feds, super excited for it.

Dr. Lorena Grundy, VP of @aaup-penn.bsky.social, will discuss their response to the Trump Admin's Compact for Higher Education and the compact's implications for academic freedom, research, and institutional autonomy.

JUSTICE FOR THE FIRED SIX NOW!

We will not stop until these wrongfully terminated professors are reinstated with full back pay.

Please Sign & Share the petition:

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The president of St. John's University's announcement that the school will no longer recognize its two faculty unions is a shameful union-busting move. SJU faculty have been working for 236 days without a contract.

Please sign the petition below to demand a return to the bargaining table.

OSU professor's takedown of cameraman was predictable. Look at Chase Center | Letters Letters: What free speech and open inquiry? Agitator in chief. Nothing ever happens.

The assault at OSU underscores the contentious role of OSU's Chase Center, an "intellectual diversity" center forced onto OSU by Ohio lawmakers. The Chase Center has been widely criticized for its limited accountability in hiring & curriculum & lack of responsibilities to the university.

How Wall Street’s Apollo got tangled up again in the Epstein files | CNN Business Jeffrey Epstein is once again haunting one of the most powerful firms on Wall Street: Apollo Global Management.

“Two powerful teachers’ unions that have committed at least $27.5 billion to Apollo wrote a letter to the SEC this week calling for federal regulators to investigate Apollo’s “apparent lack of candor” over its relationship with Epstein.”

Let’s get this investigation going NOW.
#academicsky @aft.org

Thousands of union members from Teamsters Local 2010, CFA, CSUEU, APC, UAW Local 4123, as well as community members rallied across the rainy state to picket at all 22 CSU campuses in hopes of helping the Teamsters secure a fair contract.

Read more: https://ow.ly/UgAV50YiBpR

Our UT colleagues have the same questions we do.

NYU’s Full-Time Contingent Faculty Are Poised to Strike After trying to bargain a first contract for over a year, the union for 1,000 full-time contingent faculty at New York University is voting on authorizing a strike. Contract faculty say NYU is refusin...

"organizing with others in your same condition generates a lot of the goods we’re alienated from in our competitive society. the connection you have to others, the nonalienated ways of relating, it’s something I didn’t count on because I’ve never been in a union before."

jacobin.com/2026/02/nyu-...

BREAKING: The Department of Education has ended its directive that attempted to restrict diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts in schools nationwide.

This is a victory for academic freedom and education equity.

AAUP-OSU is in solidarity with the Ohio Nurses Association, who is standing with survivors & calling for the removal of Wexner’s name from the medical center & all campus facilities.

Did you get a Med Center umbrella in the mail? Bring it to the picket! And some red tape to cross off the “W.”

Union membership is on the rise — and our ranks in AAUP are growing as part of this trend.

Organizers across sectors and in higher ed are building the infrastructure to accomplish major wins in the future.

See below for more on 2025 as a banner year for membership growth in the AAUP:

Graduate student union reaches tentative agreement with Penn, averting strike The agreement comes after more than a year of negotiations between the University and the union, which represents more than 3,700 graduate workers with teaching and research positions at Penn.

ICYMI: Colleagues & I successfully negotiated a 1st contract for UPenn's grad workers after 16 months of bargaining and 5 years of organizing. Proud of us for mounting a credible strike threat in order to massively improve pay and benefits for thousands of academics ✊️🟧🆙️
www.thedp.com/article/2026...

SEC urged to investigate Apollo over Epstein ties Teachers’ unions say regulators should look at private equity giant’s apparent ‘lack of candour’

The Epstein files revealed new details of multiple meetings over several years between convicted pedophile Epstein, Apollo CEO Marc Rowan and his Apollo co-founder and former CEO Leon Black. The AAUP & AFT are demanding that the Securities & Exchange Commission open an investigation.

@aft.org

Graduate student union reaches tentative agreement with Penn, averting strike The agreement comes after more than a year of negotiations between the University and the union, which represents more than 3,700 graduate workers with teaching and research positions at Penn.

"Penn reached a historic tentative agreement with its graduate student union on Monday night, narrowly averting a strike that would have impacted teaching and research across the University."

📰 www.thedp.com/article/2026...

Why the Indiana University Bloomington’s AAUP chapter’s membership has exploded IUB holds the country's fourth largest American Association of University Professors chapter.

“Faculty are now seeing the AAUP as the only place where their issues, their interests and their jobs are being protected against the legislature and the IU administration.”

— David McDonald, AAUP Indiana University President

@iubaaup.bsky.social

Last week in Tallahassee, FSU faculty and grad assistants testified against the anti-union bill (SB 1296).
@uff-fsu.bsky.social

#UnionStrong

@aaup-penn.bsky.social shows how faculty and staff can stand in solidarity with grad students. If you work at Penn, please sign this no-strikebreaking pledge.

Penn Employee Pledge: We Will Not Serve as Strikebreakers This pledge is open to all Penn employees (and only Penn employees). Please scroll down to sign. Signing below indicates that you take this pledge. Names and Penn affiliations of signatories will be m...

2/2] Grad workers’ labor can’t be replaced, and those of us who work with them should refuse to help the administration undermine a strike. Penn can settle this by negotiating a fair contract today. If you work at Penn, sign now to pledge that you won’t be a strikebreaker tinyurl.com/NoStrikebrea...