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Lots of big name professors at Harvard signed a letter to defend the rights of professors to engage in sexual harassment under the guise of advising. It’s disgusting watching this play out in real time.
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"noooo don't start a union" proceeds to implement an industrial program called 'production hell'
Elon Musk is telling Tesla workers that they'll have to sleep on the assembly line.
He says that producing their next electric vehicle will be "challenging" which means "sleeping on the line."
Musk calls these periods "production hell."
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full article out of the Crimson here
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Dozens, if not 100+ undergrads are currently occupying John Comaroff’s classroom.
@hgsuuaw
@OurHarvard
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Let's talk about why the Harvard letter isn't about procedure - it's about power. Whether that was your intent as a signatory or not, the impact of your signature resonates in the hearts of every victim in academia.
That Harvard letter is why victims in academia don’t talk. In a profession that thinks of itself as a religious calling, the people who inspired your career mean everything. As the ltr proves, if you say anything they will circle the wagons, and that circle will not include you.
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I don’t care if my tweets are slowly becoming less professional in addressing the crisis brewing at MO State. They waited 3 days to publish new data after updating consistently each day at 4pm. Now we’re seeing major growth in cases.
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looking forward to redistributing this massive, unnecessary, unrestricted donation to workers and student employees!
@hgsuuaw
@harvarduwu
maybe full dental coverage? elimination of international student fees? $25 minimum wage? $50k base grad student salaries?
THREAD. This email sent by the President of Harvard to all of its alumni is an incredible document. It reveals several of the profound pathological problems of our society and its elite institutions.
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I feel the need to comment on events occurring at Missouri State regarding the SOAR-related COVID cases and exposures.
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You are not being socially-conscious, responsible adults if you are going out to bars during a pandemic. I see you all going out during MO State Homecoming Weekend—folks who claim to be woke advocates. You are not. And you should feel ashamed.
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It’s clear that Missouri State did not adequately address the risk to the Springfield community. You can protect students and enforce masking on campus—but you can’t force students to be responsible elsewhere. Every mistake they make brings me worry and anger.
Saturday night inbox! From a friend in his 30s (reposted with permission)
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And just like that, I’m no longer followed by several Missouri State administrators 🤔
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imagine telling a grad student five years ago that in 2023, all the ivies would have a union/campaign and stipends are pushing $50k at about a dozen universities
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big stipend increases at harvard! we kinda slayed
@hgsuuaw
if only the university would credit the ground-up HGSU Living Wage Campaign and wins across the sector at
@MITGradUnion
@33unitehere
@GradLaborOrg
@uaw2865
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seeing some comments making fun of educators and researchers for choosing the “auto workers union.” i am begging folks to read about industrial unionism and stop peddling the boss’s talking points 🤡
🚨BREAKING: 3,100 professors at Harvard University are forming a union as
@HAWorkers
and seeking to join
@UAW
.
This is the largest union filing of the years so far.
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LET'S GOOOOOO can't wait to finally vote for a union for once
🚨BREAKING: 3,100 professors at Harvard University are forming a union as
@HAWorkers
and seeking to join
@UAW
.
This is the largest union filing of the years so far.
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My great grandma in a nursing home tested positive for COVID. She has no agency over her living situation. Your collective irresponsibility is hitting home for me. Stop partying, stop going to bars, stop engaging in gross negligence. It’s killing people.
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If your university is in a red county, it should not be reopening for regular undergraduate activity.
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A PhD program should not be a monolithic culture that promotes publication farming and 10-hour days at the bench. Folks with science PhDs can and should include aspiring educators, communicators, and public servants.
Y'all are losing a lot of talent because you don't want to open your mind to people who are willing to educate and create more scientists in future generations. We still deserve a seat at the table!!
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@McallisterBri
@PeterMDtoBe
interesting manipulation of data to show an almost-normal distribution... until you see the average is in the 50s. yikes.
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??? we responded to this 70-80 years ago
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Good morning to every one of the 10,000 John Deere UAW workers on strike - the first strike in 35 years and the largest strike in the US right now.
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Fascism in motion, folks. Four years of a dangerous demagogue led to this. Never forget it.
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We’re stronger together.
@hgsuuaw
voted to join forces with
@harvarduwu
to ensure the success of the campaign to unionize undergraduate student employees across Harvard.
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Please let us mourn RBG tonight. We can think about the politics tomorrow.
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If we cannot control spread and exposure within a small group of summer student leaders, we sure as hell won’t be able to handle campus at normal capacity and operation.
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This is the final stretch for student workers at Columbia. Harvard fully recognizes the NLRB precedent set by
@SW_Columbia
-
@Columbia
must grow a spine and do the same by the new year!
We have been on strike for more than 8 weeks. We have lost $1M+ week in pay, ~$800/wk per striking worker. We have given up our teaching and research – the jobs we came to
@Columbia
to do, for more than 8 weeks. We want this to end. And we are SO CLOSE.
1/x
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@DannyFratina
They’ve severely understated this entire case and put it out for the whole public to see 🤡
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For my UC colleagues: As bargaining heats up and internal discourse intensifies, please don’t disparage other academic unions! There’s no value in pitting locals against each other especially without the context of our struggles.
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and there’d still be plenty of money left over for massive raises to our unionized workforce
NEW: Harvard’s endowment has increased 3,521% since 1978.
It's larger than the GDP of more than 120 nations — and all the money is tax free.
Taxing just 1% of Harvard’s endowment could make community college free for everyone in Massachusetts.
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Now, the only acceptable response is an apology. No matter how thorough your scholarship, this was a massive lapse in judgment. Y'all should take notes from Dean Claudine Gay. Know the power of your signature, and try some direct action for once.
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Universities are attempting to overturn the Columbia precedent at Northeastern (UAW), Duke (SEIU), and carve new precedent around fellows at MIT (UE). This is not the time to be passive. We need a strong sectoral approach which unifies our local efforts NOW.
RESOLUTION PULLED OUT OF COMMITTEE!
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We at
@hgsuuaw
are fighting for a mid-contract wage increase because rent burden doesn’t wait for contract expiration. Harvard keeps raking in unrestricted donor dollars. We believe that money belongs to working people.
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5. Missouri State should not be moving forward with seated classes. Period.
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1. Missouri State should’ve never authorized SOAR to take place in person. This put SOAR Leaders, incoming students, and our community at high risk of exposure.
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For the love of god, PLEASE get the COVID vaccine when it’s available to you. Please.
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383 new cases in the last seven days. That’s insane. Schools have closed or paused or REACTED IN SOME WAY for a quarter of the cases we’re seeing.
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respect your union leaders y'all! it's a thankless, tiring job. some weekends we step back. there's work can't get done. i'm not paid. i have another job (sometimes two). and finally, imagine trying to run a union with a disability.
compassion is key. <3
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In two short days, I will be stepping down as president of
@hgsuuaw
to officially join the organizing staffs of
@nugradunion
and
@harvarduwu
:)
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Took a huge leap and scheduled initial consultation for ADHD today. It’s okay to struggle. Get help when you need it 💪🏻
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$53 billion endowment, yet y'all want three days of my wages back. 💀 Guess we gotta beat last year's $283 million operating surplus somehow!
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beautiful day in Boston - excited to help
@nugradunion
workers win their long-sought union election! (it’s very windy)
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1) There was no attempt at harm reduction. The letter carefully understated the gravity of the claims. The letter explicitly references collegiality as a basis to distrust policies and procedures - policies and procedures which already require a high burden of proof.
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2) Given the broad influence of many of the signatories, if this letter had not blown up, it would've virtually guaranteed that the victims would not have a future in their fields. It aimed to shut out those who were brave enough to come forward.
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4. There should not be in-person recruitment in the fall for FSL organizations.
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Every time lab salaries go up, there’s a chorus of PIs who head to social media to complain about stagnant grant funding.
If only they idk… engaged in some concerted activity to change the status quo… instead of being professional complainers… idk…
An NIH advisory group announced today that they're recommending the agency boost its minimum
#postdoc
salary to $70,000, up from the current $56,484. Many postdocs feel "underpaid and overworked," a co-chair said.
My latest for
@ScienceInsider
:
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Springfield, MO is so far in the pit of political despair that its residents cannot even consider a new flag design in good faith. It’s been blasted as communist, (?) “Middle Eastern,” and satanic. Truly the most absurd reactionary discourse I’ve ever seen.
Flag design for ref:
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People started celebrating in the streets here in Cambridge. Cars honking. One woman riding on her bike yelling “Yay! No more dictator!”
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get urselves an organizer whose neurodivergent special interest is unions (i can't stop reading union articles (i have 30 NLRB tabs open rn (im an amateur labor lawyer)))
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Gross. Irresponsible. Reprehensible. Missouri State doesn’t deserve respect right now. We’re holding its leader’s feet to the fire and still nothing—we’re only seeing more space contracted for quarantined students.
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These organizers poured their heart and soul into this. They deserved this resounding victory.
We have a union, folks! 94% of us voted YES. Thanks to our supporters and to all Northeastern Grads. Solidarity forever!
Now let's go bargain a winning contract!
#solidarity
#UnionStrong
#northeastern
#voteyes
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cosplay rural organizer living in bushwick OWNS DSA members on the internet
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CoxHealth will be opening our 51 bed COVID ICU. This will help us accommodate more patients, and continue to meet the larger community needs for general medical and surgical care.
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On the opposite side of South Dakota, my great grandfather caught COVID in a different nursing home. He passed away tonight. Stay safe folks.
My great grandma in a nursing home tested positive for COVID. She has no agency over her living situation. Your collective irresponsibility is hitting home for me. Stop partying, stop going to bars, stop engaging in gross negligence. It’s killing people.
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@caseygripps
you're singlehandedly gonna get our math department reclassified and thrown out of unit fr fr
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do people actually understand what’s going on in grad school classes or are we all really good at pretending
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hey it’s me!!!!
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In other news, John Comaroff is again teaching a course at Harvard despite an ongoing legal battle against the University for failing to protect victims of his harassment.
So um
@harvard
do u want to explain why the professor you found responsible for sexually harassing his student is again...teaching students
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Why teach the Public Affairs Mission if our university leaders aren’t going to abide by the same principles?
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my heart breaks for the organizers, and my heart hurts for all the folks duped by bad-faith arguments. as grads, i understand it's hard not to intellectualize every question in higher ed. but your material conditions do not need to be intellectualized in a neutral forum!!
New higher ed electoral outcome: yesterday's NLRB tally of ballots shows that Princeton graduate assistants voted 391-652 against union representation in a unit of 1523. This is the 1st electoral rejection of representation by graduate assistants since the end of the pandemic.
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In the case that my tweet gets circulated in another fraternity group chat: I don't really care about your thoughts and I don't care to argue.
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y'all ever apply for a job to escape academia for greener pastures, but you don't get the job after a fair and reasonable hiring process, so now you have to put together a dissertation proposal in a month to maintain good standing, and also you-
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You should be aware that there are many, many Springfield city employees I’ve met today that think COVID-19 is a hoax. Talking to folks in line for the DMV that it’s a hoax. Many of your city employees think it’s fake.
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IT’S ELECTION DAY!! At Harvard, over 3000 non-tenure-track teachers and researchers head to the polls today. I’m looking forward to casting my first-ever certification vote for
@HAWorkers
. LET’S GET IT
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2. SOAR Leaders should not be gathering in large groups regardless of the dangers related to their job. COVID hasn’t gone anyway, but we’ve grown numb to the risks and dangers of spreading the disease.
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Retraction is step one. Immediately mobilizing to change investigatory processes is step two. Don’t get bogged down in the procedure for policy change—Harvard can do this tomorrow. Give us independent panels. The opportunity to dissent.
News from
@nellgluckman
: 34 of the 38 signatories on the Harvard letter in support of Comaroff say in a new statement they want to take it back.
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1) convert harvard to umass cambridge
2) nate robinson never joined/supported his graduate student union while he completed his harvard phd in sociology
Harvard should be understood as an inequality-reproducing machine. While it may elevate a select few students from the working class to the ruling class, for the most part it is a club where social capital is passed down from generation to generation.
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It is okay and reasonable for UAW members to be disappointed in their leadership over a political endorsement.
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it’s really cool that the entire might of capital at Harvard is coming down on a few dozen students over a malicious misinterpretation of a pro-Palestinian statement
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3. The response from members of FSL should not focus on the “unregistered event” that caused the exposure, but rather the fact that there were large group gatherings period.
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What we’re seeing at MO State is a microcosm of our national response. Embarrassing. But I hope the WASP parents are happy!
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wake up babe my hometown is a national meme again
My hometown had a city council meeting about changing the city flag and it turned into an episode of Parks and Rec
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If you continue to stay silent, then we will not forget, and we will take action.
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I throw away 60% of my income on rent. I teach two extra classes because I’m also supporting my life partner through an unpaid program. I’m first gen. I’m indigenous. I’m queer. I’m struggling.
Thank you for your garbage management hot take though, bud. 🤡
@mancillabrando
@JesseDrucker
@thedrift_mag
@hgsuuaw
This is a whole other topic, but suffice to say that academia is an apprenticeship system (for better or worse) so “labor organizing” in that context is a category error.
Ivy League grad students aren’t proles, no matter how much self-fashioning to the contrary y’all engage in.
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Harvard hasn’t seen an anti-union campaign this aggressive since the
@hgsuuaw
NLRB elections. Captive audience meetings, threats of purging international student RAs, outright lies about union activity—you name it. Tell Harvard to stfu today!
Our colleagues with
@HarvardResAdvisors
are voting for their union April 19, 23, and 24. Harvard is aggressively pushing an anti-union campaign full of lies and deceit to scare workers into voting no.
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I fear how fashy Harvard’s next president will be. Our unions will need to be ready.
@hgsuuaw
@harvarduwu
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Earlier this month, I argued with a Missouri State mom on IG. She didn’t believe Missouri was teetering on the edge of a COVID crisis. Heed the warnings—health professionals in Missouri saw this coming. Did you?
Right now: Missouri tagged as federal COVID-19 'red zone,' breaks daily case record for 10th time in July. Branson, Lake of the Ozarks, Hannibal specifically flagged. Via
@stltoday
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Though we're still waiting on the UAW results, I believe Shawn Fain will be victorious this week.
I will never forget this campaign. I will never forget the way the UAW old guard went after me for my gender identity and presentation just for having a different opinion.
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@jbenmenachem
@SW_Columbia
We heard similar things here during our strike. Antagonistic faculty tried to run us over, barreled through picket lines, and regularly berated us. The cops recorded us, shoved a member of our bargaining committee, and contributed nothing positive.
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the leftover ammonium in my hair from my perm got flagged at the springfield TSA checkpoint :- (
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A professor from UCSD (now blocked) really tried to ruin my career after I called them a bootlicker in JULY. Scorn and hatred for concerted union activity knows no distance 😭
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One of the funniest little snippets from the UAW runoff is Ray Curry touting his MBA as a reason for higher ed members to vote for him - as if an MBA isn't a management degree.
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I hope the socially conscious members of the student body don’t forget this. They’re gambling with the lives in your community. The university’s plan failed. Now they’re betting on the hopes of herd immunity.
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This is the right move, and it’s a move that only happened with pressure from rank and file outcry post-convention. We’re one of the few unions with a strike war chest. It’s time to put it to use!
“Increasing the strike pay gives notice to employers that we have high expectations as we head into bargaining, and that the UAW is united in fighting for economic justice for all members.”
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Harvard just closed one of the most visible
@harvarduwu
workplaces on campus with only one hour of notice and without bargaining. Disgusting and devastating.
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