N.Y.U. Professors Reach a Deal on a Contract to End Strike After 2 Days

A union for about 950 full-time faculty members who are not on the tenure track said that 95 percent of its instructors would earn more than $100,000. Faculty members at New York University reached a tentative agreement on Wednesday to end a two-day strike at the private school, winning substantial …

The way forward after strike vote by 48,000 California academic workers against police crackdowns

The vote is a major step forward because it poses the entry of the working class into the struggle as the basic political force against war and police dictatorship.

FAQs for Senate Faculty about Possible Strike by UAW May 2024 – The Council of UC Faculty Associations

Thousands of York University workers prepared to strike Monday

Thousands of staff at York University are prepared to walk out and strike Monday morning, as an agreement has still not been reached between the university and the union.

Striking Rutgers history professor: The administration thinks academic workers don’t matter

Rutgers University campuses went on strike on Monday, April 10, 2023, after its faculty and staff unions finally got fed up of working without a contract—a position we’ve been in since June 31, 2022.

Tell UIC – Fair Faculty Contract NOW!

Faculty at University of Illinois at Chicago, UIC United Faculty (IFT-AFT/AAUP Local 6456), have been working without a contract since August. Faculty are demanding a contract that creates more stable, equitable, and dignified working conditions in order to assure the best possible student learning conditions. Send University Chancellor Reyes an email to tell him it’s past time to settle a fair contract that supports faculty and students at UIC!

Higher Ed Labor Organizing Is Just Getting Started

It’s legal for adjuncts to work under conditions that are outlawed for most other industries. Here’s how grad workers could change that.

Precarious Working Conditions in Academia - Campaign Website Petition Academia

A Global CrisisThe Academic Reality in Switzerland: Years of Fixed-Term ContractsImposed Part-Time Employment, Disguised Full-Time WorkThe Complexity of Funding in Swiss Academia A Global Crisis Around the world, students and staff are protesting low-salaries, heavy workloads leading to overwork and burnout, job insecurity, pay-cuts, neo-managerial evaluation and the climate of fierce competition in third-party funding … Continuer la lecture de « Precarious Working Conditions in Academia »

ASU, UA workers petition schools for thriving wages, better job security

A union of workers at Arizona State University and University of Arizona is petitioning the schools to pay all campus workers at least $25 an hour by 2025. But for many contingent faculty members, the fight is about more than bigger paychecks.Contingent faculty members are hired to teach at universities on a short-term contract. Those teaching full time can receive benefits, but they are not eligible for tenure. Nataly Reed is a senior lecturer at UA.