Higher Education
Dispatches from the Picket Line: 2,000 Temple Students Walk Out to Support Grad Strike
A Temple adjunct reports from inside the walkout on Wednesday, February 15.
Jason Koslowski
February 16, 2023Yet Another Academic is Being Attacked for Criticizing Israel: Education Unions Need to Fight Back
Our unions must not only defend professors who speak out about Israeli apartheid and brutality, but should take a stance against Zionism, a movement fundamentally based on racism and oppression.
Kalen Wheeler
February 10, 2023Fordham University’s Resident Assistants Unionize
Two days after the faculty union ratified its second contract, student workers announced there’s a new union in town.
Olivia Wood
February 9, 2023Higher Ed Strike Fever: This Morning, Temple’s Grad Students Walked off the Job
TUGSA, organizing Temple University’s graduate students, walked out on strike this morning. Winning will take bottom-up organizing from Temple’s unions and undergraduates, shoulder to shoulder with TUGSA on the pickets.
Jason Koslowski
January 31, 2023Temple’s Undergrads Are Taking On the University Bosses
At Temple University, undergraduate students are joining the ranks of higher ed workers who are fighting back.
Jason Koslowski
January 30, 2023The Higher Ed Labor Movement Runs Full Speed Ahead into 2023
Just thirteen days into the new year, a new set of strikes are already brewing in the higher education labor movement.
Olivia Wood
January 13, 2023As Grade Deadlines Approach, Academic Workers Must Hold the Line and Expand Strikes
The end of the semester is a critical time for academic workers on strike. Part time faculty at The New School and student workers and postdocs at the University of California are fighting hard to hold the line against increasing attacks from their employers.
Olivia Wood
December 8, 2022“We Sold Out the People Who Elected Us”: UC Bargaining Team Member Speaks Out About Union Concessions
Here we publish the testimony of a graduate student worker on strike at the University of California, who is part of the bargaining team for UAW Local 2865. Wednesday night, the bargaining team voted 10-9 to make severe concessions to the university.
Janna Haider, UAW 2865 Bargaining Team
December 2, 2022New School Adjuncts Strike for Higher Wages Amid Ongoing Labor Struggles Across the US
1,300 adjuncts at the new school in NYC are on strike. This strike comes in the midst of other strikes across the country including at The University of California and Starbucks.
Jean Faber
November 18, 2022Historic Strike at The University of California Could Reshape the Terrain of Labor Struggles in Higher Education
Forty-eight thousand workers are on strike at the University of California — the largest higher-education strike in U.S. history. These young workers are demanding raises that allow them to afford rent and childcare in some of the most expensive locations in the country. A successful strike of this magnitude could fundamentally change the terrain of labor struggle in higher education, which has systematically exploited its most vulnerable workers.
Carolina Flores
November 18, 2022