Todd Wolfson
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Prof @RutgersU. President @aaup. Pres. @ruaaup. Co-director @mic_center. Co-founder Movement Alliance Project. Author “Digital Rebellion,” "The Great Refusal.”
Philadelphia and New Brunswick
Joined August 2008
"We condemn human rights abuses in Cuba," says country with torture camp in Cuba.
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This is truly shameful of @Columbia. They fired @ProfKFranke. @AAUP stands with Professor Franke and against this repression of pro-Palestinian speech.
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We have a tentative framework for a deal. ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️🔥🔥🔥🔥. We are gonna work hard to stitch up the missing pieces and make this a contract out amazing members, students and ally’s deserve.
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#UberLyftStrike Cities/Countries.Nairobi .Nigeria .Paris .London .Glasgow .Nottingham .Birmingham .Chile .Sao Paolo .Panama .Costa Rica .NYC .LA .San Fran .San Diego .Seattle .Dayton.Minneapolis .Chicago .Conn .WashDC .Boston .Philly .Atlanta .brisbane .sydney .melbourne.
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The misleadership of @RutgersU has completely lost the plot. They have morphed from a public university to big brother. Shameful
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Holy smokes @union1766! ❤️❤️❤️. Hey @RutgersU stop threatening us with your injunction as this is slipping right out of your hands.@ruaaup @ruaaup_ptl @ABhsnj
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We are gonna win.
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US capitalism in 4 acts:.1: Breadlines balloon across US w/ growing food insecurity.2: Farmers burn crops & kill millions of animals at slaughterhouses. 3: Undocumented workers that do labor to close slaughterhouses ineligible for unemployment.4: Laid off workers join bread lines.
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@jpodhoretz @JamaalBowmanNY @mehdirhasan As a Jewish person I find you and your discourse absolutely shameful.
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I want to remind all of my brothers and sisters @ruaaup and folks in higher education more generally, exactly who stood with us when it mattered most. @BernieSanders! @mcbyrne @BrotherCooper89.
I stand with AAUP-AFT Rutgers professors who are prepared to strike in order to defend affordable, quality higher education. When we organize and stand together, we win. #UnionStrong.
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To my fellow unionists in the UC w. UAW2865 & unions involved in historic strike! It’s a terrible idea to share bargaining mtg notes on social media? You are sharing critical internal info the boss will exploit. It’s undisciplined & bad faith. Find non-public channels to debate.
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I am furious at the shameful actions of @TempleUniv. Their actions against grads is reprehensible. People in Philly must pressure Temple to bargain in good faith! @KendraPHL @NikilSaval @HelenGymAtLarge @HelenGymPHL @candidateTHOMAS @marclamonthill @RebeccaRhynhart @MariaQSanchez.
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My biased prediction: in 2022 higher ed workers will enter a wave of unprecedented militancy with increased unionization & critical strikes across the sector! We will save higher ed @HigherEdLabor @ruaaup @ruaaup_ptl @uaw2865 @SFNDHE @SW_Columbia @PHEWnetwork @GSOCUAW @UCWArizona.
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The @AAUP has launched a formal inquiry into @Muhlenberg and the firing of Maura Finkelstein. Read more here:
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Many on the left have disdain for higher ed organizing, arguing that academic labor isn't labor: 1. Material fights in the academy will help reshape ideology, 2. Our goal is to expand the social base of intellectuals connecting their activities to social transformation.
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One final point. Rutgers Neoliberal management is cruel but they are par for the course. They are simply not fit to lead our colleges & universities. Only students, faculty and staff can lead our institutions in the public interest.
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Solidarity from: @KeeangaYamahtta @BarbaraRansby @DrIbram @thrasherxy Judith Butler, Robin DG Kelley, @NaomiAKlein @catchatweetdown Francis Fox Piven, @DavarianBaldwin @OlufemiOTaiwo @hthompsn @GregGrandin Adolph Reed Wendy Brown @gabrielwinant & many more.
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What @RutgersU did by changing comparators and using a regression analysis was to bake in salary inequity. A program that was supposed to bring underpaid faculty members up to equal pay for equal work is consigning them to being underpaid into the indefinite future. 11/12.
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Three unions representing 9k workers @RutgersU have a Tentative Agreement. After a strike, and negotiations in Trenton and NB, we have a powerful contract. The process was hard and imperfect, but we are transforming higher ed.@ABhsnj @ruaaup @ruaaup_ptl .
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Omg. I’m in love. I will will listen to this every hour in the hour during bargaining. #WeROnStrike. #IBelieveThatWeWillWin.@ruaaup @ruaaup_ptl @union1766 @ABhsnj.
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So, @RutgersU changed comparators (after the fact) to obstruct pay equity saving them $1 million. All the while being in debt in athletics to the tune of $250million. I have a simple question: Is this what you meant by beloved community? #LeadershipFailure 12/12.
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In these times, guiding democratic orgs is challenging, but the lowest bar must be respect for the democratic will of members. We call on @AHAhistorians to allow for a membership vote on the condemnation of #scholasticide in Gaza, or respect the overwhelming vote at the AHA mtg.
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Strike at Goldsmiths!!! Higher Ed workers globally are entering a period of militancy from Goldsmiths to Harvard (@hgsuuaw) & Columbia (@SW_Columbia) grad workers to lectures & student researchers in UC system (@UCAFT) (@sruuaw). Don’t sleep on HE strike wave! @HigherEdLabor.
Look at the numbers for our solidarity rally! This is not a normal strike. @GoldsmithsUoL management has bitten off more than it can chew. We demand #NoJobCuts! #Goldstrike
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This is the opposite of equity. If you take out, for example, male comparators and replace them with lower-paid female comparators, you’re simply compounding the problem of gender pay inequity. This is what Rutgers did. 6/12.
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At @Phillies game and supporting the hard working @AramarkSports workers! @UNITEHEREPhilly! NO CONCESSIONS! Fair contract now! ❤️❤️🔥🔥
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Lol! @Columbia is in the midst of a cruel campaign against @SW_Columbia yet they put out this call for mental health. Do they have no sense of irony as they create untold economic and mental health issues among their workforce.
Whatever you're going through that's difficult, you can move through it. A new guided meditation for self-compassion, read by Dr. Aisha Holder of Columbia Health.
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Strikes in public education work. They make significant gains for workers and they DO NOT disrupt educational outcomes. Read more here!!.
Teacher union strikes appear to be more effective than other US industry strikes in delivering compensation increases. ($10,000 per teacher over 5 years ). This may be because educators are less easily replaced with non-union workers and tech automation.
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With @ProfessorKumar's leadership, we negotiated a pay equity process in our last contract to account for gender, race and campus inequity. Through this program faculty could apply for an equity adjustment. This was the first program of its kind in academia. 2/12.
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.@TempleUniv has stopped the evil practice of cutting of @TUGSA_6290 healthcare! This is a critical victory and shows that the grad workers are winning. Keep the pressure on! Solidarity from @ruaaup ❤️❤️❤️🔥.
Our strength and your support put pressure on @TempleUniv admin to reverse their heinous decision to, without notification, deactivate our healthcare coverage since the start of the strike. The pressure is working, let's keep it up until we get a fair contract!.
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Thank you @BernieSanders for standing with Rutgers workers. I believe that we will win! @ruaaup @ruaaup_ptl @ABhsnj #WeROnStrike.
I want to congratulate the workers at @ruaaup for taking the courageous step to go on strike. You are inspiring the labor movement across this country. I am proud to stand in solidarity with you.
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.@RutgersU. Yesterday leadership of @ruaaup voted to begin a strike vote on 2/28. Keep offering 2% raises, denying adjuncts & grads a living wage, keep denying security for staff & NTTs and a rent freeze for students & community. The strike wave is coming. @ruaaup_ptl @NewLabor.
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We stand with the faculty at @nyuniversity and we condemn the crackdown on pro-Palestinian protest and academic freedom! @aaup_nyu @catchatweetdown.
“This crackdown on NYU faculty is part of a. pattern of repression of pro-Palestinian speech. The AAUP condemns this practice & we will fight to defend academic freedom & the right of faculty, students, & staff to peacefully assemble. " @AAUP @ProfTWolf .
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This clown 🤡.
BREAKING: The Rutgers Faculty Union, despite falsely claiming they commit to academic freedom, has voted to cut ties with Tel Aviv University. Disgustingly, the faculty union president, @ProfTWolf is also a founding member of Rutgers Faculty for Justice in Palestine.
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I am excited to announce my new book Another University is Possible with @haymarketbooks and with the support of @sarahkkhalil at @CalligraphLit. Given all the repression we are seeing on our campuses from California and Texas to New York, this book is right on time!!
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.@RutgersU & @JonSHolloway!This email screams panic! And, I guess everyone's in your beloved community until you go to court with Chris Christie's lawyers. You WILL NOT INTIMIDATE US. Fair contract or face the consequences #RUStrikeReady @ruaaup @ruaaup_ptl @abhsnj @higheredlabor
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Full time faculty at @TheNewSchool are aligning with PT faculty that are currently on strike. We are one faculty. Higher Ed Workers Unite! @UAW7902 @HigherEdLabor @SFNDHE.
An open letter to New School leadership regarding “work certification” @UAW7902 .
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It's been a wild road! After a strike, and months of negotiations, 3 unions representing 9000 workers ratified contracts at @RutgersU. There's more too win, but we've turned the tables & taken the fight to the boss!#HigherEdWorkersUnite @ruaaup @ruaaup_ptl @ABhsnj @HigherEdLabor
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We are not the enemy. Colleges and universities are the lifeblood of our democracy!.
Plain and simple, #Project2025 would decimate higher education. Here's how. #RealSolutionsForHigherEd #AFTvotes
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The administration also used a so-called “regression analysis”—provided by anti-labor law firm Jackson Lewis—to calculate the final adjustments, which also typically reduced what applicants received. This algorithm was deeply flawed, and again cemented existing inequities. 7/12.
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In a majority of the cases for which we have full information, the comparators endorsed by deans were switched, resulting in a substantial reduction in the final salary adjustments for most applicants. Rutgers went back and switched comparators after they were endorsed. 5/12.
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Hi @RutgersU. I want to introduce you to my friend, the Higher Ed Strike Wave! @ruaaup, @ruaaup_ptl & @ABhsnj found our inspiration in @UICUF @uaw2865 @sruuaw @UAW5810 @UCAFT @RIDER_AAUP @UAW7902 at TNS&NYU @hgsuuaw @SW_Columbia @HigherEdLabor and many others! #RUStrikeReady
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Our experts found that the regression analysis reduced awards for the first 103 decisions by $535,000. In the 49 cases for which we have full information, the comparator switches cost applicants $218,000. We think the total reductions in awards were close to $1 million. 8/12.
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Striking U. of Michigan Grad Students Aren't Submitting Grades. The University Wants Faculty to Fill In.
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It is now 2 years later and the first 103 equity adjustments were finally released yesterday.But it is vital that we shine a light on Rutgers given what they have done in this process. 3/12.
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This is a public service announcement: you cannot claim to be a union that represents Uber drivers while taking money from Uber!.
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We love you @SenSanders! Thank you for the solidarity ❤️❤️❤️.
I stand in solidarity with the 9,000 @ruaaup faculty and graduate student workers on strike at Rutgers University. These workers deserve a good contract with fair pay and benefits NOW.
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The agreement needs to be ratified, but @TUGSA_6290 are my fucking HEROES! They stayed out and fought in the face of everything. They did not back down to a shit boss and held firm. Congratulations! We are learning from you at @ruaaup & @ruaaup_ptl. #IBelieveThatWeWillWin.
Today, we reached a new Tentative Agreement with @TempleUniv. This TA reflects the incredible work of striking members over the past six weeks. It includes significant movement on all four of our core demands! Members will now vote on whether or not to ratify the TA. 🧵(1/7).
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Be there on February 28!!! Union members will be joined by @Shut_downAmazon & @FlyingWithSara as we prepare for a strike at @RutgersU. @ruaaup @ruaaup_ptl @union1766 @ABhsnj @CWA_NJ @hpaeaft @CIR_Rutgers @AFTNJ @HigherEdLabor @SFNDHE @AFTunion @NTU_481
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Police & @Uber are attempting to silence @jamesfarrar. I've known James for years. He's a fierce organizer & critical leader of @United_PHD. I'm pledging to his defense. Support & share @NYTWA @_drivers_united @veenadubal @PhlDriversUnion @ChicagoRidesha1 .
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More fights in front of us, but together we will win. #WeRUnited.
Four unions at @RutgersU have reached a landmark agreement with the university to prevent more damaging cuts after a year of austerity. "Our core demand was no layoffs," says @ProfTWolf of @ruaaup.
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At @ruaaup we demand equal pay for equal work. That is why we filed a lawsuit today along with five amazing female plaintiffs under the New Jersey Equal Pay Act.
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Applicants to the program chose faculty peers (called “comparators”) to show that they were underpaid. In the early stages, these comparators were reviewed, and in many instances endorsed, by deans, who endorsed pay increases to bring applicants up to an equitable salary. 4/12.
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The most disappointing part of Pres. Holloway’s hollow address to @RutgersU was the tired claim that worker demands force tuition hikes. We know this strategy to divide workers and students. The worst bosses harness this rhetoric. I expected more. @ruaaup @union1766 @ruaaup_ptl.
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Canceled my seminar talk tomorrow at @HarvardPopCtr in solidarity with the @hgsuuaw strike. The world's wealthiest university can do a whole lot more than adjust for inflation #HarvardOnStrike.
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The President of @RutgersU claimed that paying adjuncts and grads a living wage would force Rutgers to raise tuition by 10%. What about the hundreds of millions spent subsidizing athletics or the hundreds of millions added to reserves since COVID? 🤥@ruaaup @ruaaup_ptl @union1766.
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.@insidehighered profiled the new leadership team @AAUP. We're building a movement to transform higher ed. Honored to work with leaders from @HigherEdLabor @AFTunion @CWAUnion @NEA @SEIU @SFNDHE @UAW @ScholarsForSJ @massteacher @uaw_4811 @ruaaup @AFSCME .
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Today President Holloway and @RutgersU announced that they'll establish an office of labor relations because of the central role unions play in the university. Then they announced that a Chris Christie appointee will run this new office. 🤣.@ruaaup @ruaaup_ptl @ABhsnj @union1766.
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Is @RutgersU the next landing spot for the higher ed strike wave? It is starting to look like it. Yesterday was an amazing day!! #FairContractNow @ruaaup_ptl @ruaaup_ptl @union1766 @hpaeaft @AFTunion @AFTNJ @NJAFLCIO @HigherEdLabor
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Camden faculty came out behind in every measure. They accounted for 42 of the initial 103 decisions, Eight of those 42 got no salary adjustment at all—compared to five from all other campuses among the initial cases. 9/12.
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I stand with @TUGSA_6290. 352-30 means more than half the unit rejeced the offer. That is a massive margin rejecting the TA. And @TempleUniv can, and must, do much better. It is important for allies and elected officials to stand with TUGSA now! Solidarity. #StrikesWork @ruaaup
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The @aaup stands with @UAW. The Trump administrators must lift the thoughtless freeze on the @NIH for the good of medical research!.
"The UAW calls on the Trump Administration and Congress to lift these draconian restrictions immediately to ensure that scientific research in the United States, including the crucial work done by UAW members, can continue without interruption.".
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This is the definition of manufactured austerity. @RutgersU is laying off dozens of adjunct faculty and cutting the writing program classes in half for a saving of less than $1m or 5% of the annual athletics program deficit. Julie Wade & Mike Gower: What are your priorities?.
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The average salary adjustment for the 34 Camden faculty who received something was $6,800, less than half the average award for applicants on other campuses. Despite Camden faculty asking for the lowest increases, they still got the lowest percentage of what they asked for. 10/12.
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Hey @RutgersU, after rallying w. @Shut_downAmazon @FlyingWithSara @fedingram, I voted to authorize a STRIKE. We warned you Pres. Holloway & the BOG, but you were hiding. #RUStrikeReady @ruaaup @ruaaup_ptl @CIR_Rutgers @AFTNJ @HigherEdLabor
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We are calling President Holloway and @RutgersU administration to live up to their commitments around freedom of speech and reinstate Rutgers Students for Justice in Palestine immediately. Academic freedom for all!!.
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What an honor to do this interview on wall-to-wall organizing in higher ed on @thedigradio with the amazing @DanielDenvir and my visionary comrade @murchnik. Shout out to @HigherEdLabor @SFNDHE @ruaaup .
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I voted YES. I voted to end contingent labor in higher ed. I voted to demand all workers make a living wage on our campuses. I voted to fight for and with our students and communities. There is more to fight for and win, but this is an critical step! @ruaaup_ptl @ruaaup @ABhsnj
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Hey @RutgersU and President Holloway, a bit of unsolicited advice: University Presidents that are strike breakers have troubled career trajectories. See @TempleUniv .Fair Contract or Face the Consequences. #WeRReady2Strike @TUGSA_6290 @TAUP @ruaaup @ruaaup_ptl.
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Talk about a strike wave. More than 120,000 higher ed workers will be on strike on Monday from London to New York and LA! Higher Ed Labor Presente! @ucu @uaw2865 @sruuaw @UAW5810 @UAW7902 @HigherEdLabor @ruaaup @ruaaup_ptl.
🚨ATTENTION🚨. You delivered historic picket lines, but it doesn't stop there. We now need to mobilise for next week and our NATIONAL RALLY in London. Speakers from across the movement💪.Coaches from across the UK🚍.New merch🧢.A surprise for the bosses 🫣. BE THERE. #ucuRISING
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Vote YES! We’ve won critical gains for TA/GAs, layoff protections for staff, reappointments for Adjuncts & we get our raises. And we are building a front of thousands of workers across Rutgers & NJ! #WeRUnited #VoteYes @ruaaup @union1766 @hpaeaft @CWAUnion @AFTunion @rkgwork
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This is what inspiration looks like!.This is what a higher ed labor strike looks like - UC Santa Barbara!.Higher Ed labor is moving into a new wave of militancy. Grad workers in UC are 🔥.@uaw2865 @UAW5810 @sruuaw @HigherEdLabor @ruaaup @UCAFT @CFA_United
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Labor and #GreenNewDeal MUST align. Energy Committee of @AFLCIO is wrong. We need @sunrisemvmt @350 w. leaders like @NaomiAKlein & @AOC to build coalition with labor beyond @32BJSEIU. Where is @AFSCME @unitehere @AFTunion @CWAUnion @UFCW @SEIU @NationalNurses? Time to be counted.
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Union busting is disgusting! Lee Bolinger and @Columbia should be ashamed! Faculty at Columbia need to join @SW_Columbia on the strike line! Don’t be a scab and cross the picket! @HigherEdLabor
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This is gonna be amazing. I’m very proud of @AAUP, @HigherEdLabor, @AFTunion, @UAW, @CWAUnion @unitehere @SEIU @AFSCME as well as NEA & UE.
TOMORROW: an unprecedented coalition of 10 national labor unions representing millions of higher ed workers will announce a collective vision of how a Kamala Harris administration can ensure our nation’s democratic future through a renewed federal investment in higher education.
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.@ruaaup & @ruaaup_ptl stand in solidarity with Temple grads! @TUGSA_6290. We will be out on the picket line tomorrow! Join us! @HigherEdLabor
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Do u want to transform higher ed? Join @HigherEdLabor for summit, starting Wed Feb 23. Join @NaomiAKlein @stacydavisgates @rsgexp @FlyingWithSara & Erika Smiley as we confront crisis. @ruaaup @UCAFT @SFNDHE @CFA_United @uupinfo @PSC_CUNY @UnitedFacultyFL.
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The struggle for the soul of higher ed continues! But, the UC strike & New School strike, were tremendous steps forward! #HigherEdWorkersUnite @uaw2865 @UAW5810 @sruuaw @UAW7902 @AAUPTNS @ruaaup @ruaaup_ptl @HigherEdLabor @FordhamFacultyU @SFNDHE @UICUF
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I am strike ready. This could be avoided but we are now working over 200 days without a contract. #RUStrikeReady @ruaaup @ruaaup_ptl
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We are building a national movement of labor unions to fight over the future of public higher education. Join us as we kick this off next week. @ruaaup @ruaaup_ptl @union1766 @uupinfo @PSC_CUNY @CFA_United @UCAFT @UICUF @massteacher @uaw2865 @TAUP @CWA_NJ @UCWArizona @UFF @ABhsnj
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We won!!!! Now we need to see @GovMurphy appoint ppl to the BOG that care about Camden and care about the core mission of @RutgersU: teaching, research & service! @ruaaup @ruaaup_ptl @ABhsnj.
Confirmed: Bill Tambussi has been kicked off the Rutgers Governing Board. He is the indicted lawyer for party boss George Norcross, and was supposed to live in Camden County to hold that seat. He doesn't.
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Dude is straight up saying he will follow playbook of fascist Viktor Orban, & take over higher ed, in order to control what we research, teach, say, and learn. This is fascism. We must be prepared to unite & fight! @AAUP @HigherEdLabor @ruaaup @ruaaup_ptl .
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This is the truth! @aaup will join with you to organize, build power and protect higher education and our campuses.
Democracy is in peril, and with it higher education. There are no simple solutions. But the first step is clear: we've got to fight for higher ed like we've never fought before.
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We need a nat'l movement in higher ed that demands free tuition in 2&4 years institutions, an end to casualization of teaching faculty, living wage on campus, end to student debt. @HigherEdLabor @SFNDHE @uupinfo @ruaaup @CFA_United @WashUGradWkrs @ruaaup_ptl @uaw2865 @PSC_CUNY.
New - Biden told House progressives tuition-free community college is out of package, per multiple sources. Child tax credit won’t go as far as some would like — likely a 1-yr extension. Home health care likely less than $250B. Dems had wanted $400B. Climate change still a debate.
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Important article on @WestVirginiaU by @dennismhogan: “Gee has tied up the school’s finances in real estate boondoggles … now seeks nickel-and-dime savings that will make education cheaper by making it worse…” WVU IS THE FRONT LINE!
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The leadership @RutgersU are awful. Mike Gower, Vivian Fernandez, John Hoffman, Tony Calcado should be fired immediately. Today they laid off another 56 ppl, largely people of color, that do mental health work with youth. This is barbaric and scandalous. #WeRNotDisposable @ruaaup.
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