Articles
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Fighting Neoliberal Universities in States without Bargaining Rights
UCW undermines neoliberal universities by bringing workers who are never meant to cross paths into conversation about how to fundamentally transform higher education.
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Image courtesy of the authors Digital Organizing against the Neoliberal University
Picking a fight with the university in the middle of a pandemic required AFSCME Council 3 to develop new digital tools to build its membership, develop a structure more responsive to workers’ concerns, strengthen coalitions, and fight back against the university.
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Image courtesy of the authors Contract Personalis: How Georgetown’s Graduate Workers Organized to Win
Georgetown Alliance of Graduate Employees won a collective bargaining agreement during the COVID-19 pandemic. Three strategies — resonant framing, centering members’ lived experiences, and solidarity from internal and external allies — were the core of their contract campaign.
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Image courtesy of Sam Klug Organizing at the Frontier of Higher Education
Julie Kushner on her decades-long career organizing university workers, her vision for building deep coalitions of students and workers, and why she thinks union organizers are “the best people.”
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Image courtesy of the author The Waiting Game: Fighting Delay as a Union-Busting Tactic
Delaying the legal processes of forming a union is among the primary tactics that neoliberal universities have when it comes to squashing organizing tactics. To fight that, faculty unions must keep their sights on the long-game.
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Image courtesy of Sara Myklebust Here’s How We Not Just Reopen, But Transform Higher Education
A letter from the workers, students, and faculty who know what Higher Ed needs
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Image courtesy of the authors United We Fight at Rutgers
The public university of the 21st century needs to listen to and include everyone’s voices. Here’s how the Coalition of Rutgers Unions is using this moment to model that vision.
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Image courtesy of the authors The Other College Debt Trap
Colleges and universities are real estate. This contradiction provides a framework for workers and students to build power that can resist concessions; organize more people into the labor movement; and push for policy changes that weaken the grip of institutional finance over our education system.
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Image courtesy of the author UnKoch Everything: Tactical Lessons Toward Structural Transformation
Higher education has never been safe or welcoming for those of us impacted by structural racism. At UnKoch My Campus, we’re learning that to truly “unKoch” the academy, we need to challenge entrenched gender, class, and racial inequities on campus and open up space for reimagining institutions of higher education.
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Images courtesy of the authors How to Win a Contract in a Pandemic
“People are finding it harder and harder to maintain any sort of illusions about…their relationships to these institutions.”
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Photo courtesy of the author Building Electoral Power in the Rhode Island Primaries
Even a young organization can quickly become a meaningful political player if it chooses its fights wisely.
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Photo by Max Bender For Those of Us With Privilege: It’s Time to Use It
Dismantling the old and building the new requires courage and determination. But if we all put it on the line, we can break through to the world in which we want to live.
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Photo by Patrick Amoy How do I make sure my emails get read?
Trying to up your digital game during COVID? Our columnists are here to help with all your digital dilemmas.
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We are going to lose if we don’t start canvassing
Listen to the scientists. Wear a mask, practice physical distancing, and get out into the field.
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Childcare Providers and the Fight for a Caring Economy
Childcare providers and early childhood educators in California made history when they voted to form Child Care Providers United, a new union that will represent roughly 45,000 workers across the state. In this series, we look at how they did it.
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“The biggest challenge is escalation”
An organizer on the Child Care Providers United campaign talks about what it took to win.
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The Early History of Childcare Organizing in Chicago
The recent victory by 43,000 childcare providers in California is the latest in a long movement started by Black women in Chicago.
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“It’s the movement that makes a difference”
An organizer on the Child Care Providers United campaign talks about what it took to win.
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“One provider at a time”
An organizer on the Child Care Providers United campaign talks about what it took to win.
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“There was just no accountability”
Pam Franks talks with Keith Kelleher about organizing the first childcare providers union in Illinois