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By slashing grad programs while shelling out millions for a parking garage, Penn has shown us its priorities—so we came to the Trustees meeting today to show them ours

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““The trustees are creating a climate of manufactured austerity,” said Amy Offner, president of @aaup-penn.bsky.social, who attended the meeting.”

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Penn Trustees want a $13 million parking garage for their Teslas. We want a university. Come out to the Inn at Penn today at 4 and tell them to fund graduate education and research! secretary.upenn.edu/trustees-gov...

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Every worker deserves a safe a secure retirement. Just this week we saw Tesla stock continue to sink faster than a Cybertruck in quicksand. So we're asking asset managers to honestly look at their investments in Tesla. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/27/b...

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The U.S. Postal Service is the nation’s largest unionized employer and its role is outlined in the Constitution. If the Trump administration thinks it can interfere in this unionized workplace, no worker is safe, writes Eric Chornoby: www.labornotes.org/blogs/2025/0...

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Penn State faculty are forming a union. It's long overdue. Please share widely, friends. www.pennstatefacultyalliance.org

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Come on out, Penn sky!

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Penn admin: We have no choice but to slash grad admissions in SAS and the Med School by 35% Penn Trustees: Can’t wait to drop $13 million on a parking garage for Pennovation Works Trustees Budget & Finance Cmte meets tomorrow 2/27 at 4 👀 Come out and be heard! secretary.upenn.edu/trustees-gov...

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good time for academics to join AAUP

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When we fight, we win. Judge Halts Implementation of Trump Anti-DEIA Executive Orders Nationwide The AAUP is proud to stand up & defend our campuses & communities against those attempting to squash civil rights & halt progress toward an equitable, multi-racial democracy. www.washingtonpost.com

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On Tuesday 2/25 – in D.C. and online – workers and labor leaders will rally to expose how attacks on public funding decimate public health and education while siphoning off public resources for private gain. Hands off our healthcare, research, jobs, and education! Join us: www.labor4highered.org

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This is a great article. There are also graphics like this you can download, print and distribute. Find the pdf here: maketheroadny.org/we-protect-us/

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An inspiring article on courageous community college leaders who are publicly organizing and standing up against DEI attacks.. www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...

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I was happy to speak with @melissagiragrant.com about pushing back against academic censorship in the current moment. @newrepublic.com newrepublic.com/article/1917...

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“This is not just about being anti-science. This is about an agenda. They’re pushing a white supremacist, authoritarian agenda.” – Pennsylvania State Rep Rick Krajewski @aaup-penn.bsky.social www.thedp.com/article/2025...

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HUNDREDS of Higher Ed faculty, staff, grad workers, postdocs, researchers and students showed up in the cold today outside the office of @davemccormick.bsky.social to say HANDS OFF our research, our healthcare, and our jobs! @higheredlabor.bsky.social @aftunion.bsky.social

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OSU AAUP stands in solidarity with federal workers facing Elon Musk’s push to gut federal services and impose mass layoffs. The Federal Unionist Network is organizing a Save Our Services rally at the statehouse at 5pm TODAY - please support if you can! More info at actionnetwork.org/events/colum...

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The Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights has threatened to annihilate 60 years of advancements in equal opportunity by eliminating all federal funding for schools that support and celebrate students from diverse backgrounds. 🧵 1/

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Just joined @aaup.bsky.social @aaup-penn.bsky.social! Now is the time to support academic freedom and higher education.

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9 degrees, mighty colleagues, fighting for science and service! public research IS public health! uic united faculty, carl rosen of united electrical, radio,+ machine workers, uchicago aaup, northwestern postdocs, depaul, in it to win @higheredlabor.bsky.social @aftunion.bsky.social @uaw.org

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Hundreds in Philly braved the freezing temps to rally for our healthcare, research, and jobs! ❄️💪 Workers & students from CCP, Drexel, UPenn, Rutgers, Temple, Jefferson, Arcadia, Rowan, Moore—alongside elected leaders & union presidents—made it clear: We won’t back down. #LaborForHigherEd

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Philly, come out to 2000 Market right now and say it loud: hands off our healthcare, hands off our research, hands off our jobs!

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Colleges are under pressure from White House over diversity (DEI) but no big school has bent the shameful knee of obeying in advance harder or faster than Trump and Musk's alma mater, the University of Pennsylvania My new column on the strangling of academic freedom www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...

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Today in 15+ cities & online: We Walk Out, We Rise Up, We Fight for the Future! From campuses to Capitol Hill, higher ed workers take action. Join us as we demand funding for science, protections for research, and a future where knowledge serves the people—not corporate greed: www.labor4highered.org

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protest the theft of public money + public goods! TOMORROW all over! protests, rallies + press conferences coordinated by AFCSME, AAUP, AFT, UAW, HELU+ others, for researchers+ public servants + their supporters. find your local action! www.labor4highered.org chicago join us at 10am!

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taking a stand in single digits, the chicago public servant way!

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Across the country on Feb 19, workers impacted by cuts to federal funding are coming together to say: Hands off our healthcare, research, and jobs! Join us in one of more than a dozen cities (& if there's not an action near you yet, sign up to be the first to know when there is): labor4highered.org

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Spotted 👀 around Busch campus. See you tomorrow at noon! Science belongs to the people—not billionaires. Join us in taking action. #FundTheFuture #LaborForHigherEd docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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“The purpose of all of these executive orders is to probe & see which parts of our society are weakest — which ones will cave to threats. What the Penn admin has done is show that it is cowardly & weak, & that it’s a good mark.” - Amy Offner, @aaup-penn.bsky.social www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...

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The University of Pennsylvania, built on the democratic ideals of Ben Franklin, once a focus of debate and protest from Vietnam to Gaza, is trashing its legacy with bended-knee compliance to its worst alumni, Trump and Musk My new column on how far Penn has fallen www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...

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Join Philly labor afternoon TOMORROW (2⃣/1⃣9⃣) as we demand that Sen. McCormick take his HANDS OFF higher ed workers' healthcare and jobs 🚫 Let's show Sen. McCormick that 🗣️ PHILLY IS A UNION TOWN ✊ 📍Sen. McCormick's Philly Office (2000 Market St.) ⌚️ 1⃣2⃣ PM

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This Wed at noon, Philly! Federal research funding cuts threaten life-saving medical research and could cost hundreds of thousands of jobs in our city. So come out and stand with higher ed workers in AAUP, UAW, AFT, CWA and more on 2/19 to say hands off our healthcare, our research, and our jobs!

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Join in the National Day of Action against the Trump/Musk assault on federal agencies and workers. actionnetwork.org/forms/federa...

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They are trying to prevent research on racial equity and universities are just like we’ll just stop doing research on racial equity instead of calling this out for the existential threat to academic freedom that it is.

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Shameful. Solidarity to colleagues with @aaup-penn.bsky.social defending academic freedom and our students. "It is the higher education community’s responsibility not to surrender to such attacks—and not to surrender in anticipation of them. Instead, we must vigorously and loudly oppose them."

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Breaking: 20,000 University of California healthcare, research, and technical workers will hold an unfair labor practice strike Feb 26 - 28 across UC campuses, medical centers, and labs. They are members of the University Professional & Technical Employees (UPTE-CWA Local 9119).

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. @higheredlabor.bsky.social is kicking ass with its organizing against NIH funding cuts. Consider joining or organizing an action to contact your legislator Wednesday, Feb. 19! www.labor4highered.org

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Happening now! There are nearly 1000 union members from across the country on this national call right now strategizing together how we fight back

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Unions Can Stop Trump’s Rollback of Civil Rights Unions are among our best tools for protecting our rights and each other and can lead the fight for an alternative: anticipatory defiance.

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Intellectual diversity in Ohio universities will apparently mean that faculty must welcome views like the earth is flat unless we want to risk repercussions for telling the truth and being reported for having an “Earth is round” bias in our classroom.

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Hosting a virtual debtors assembly now, 8PM ET - come on in if you want to listen and/or share. We are not in debt because we live beyond our means but because we are denied the means to live. us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

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Tomorrow night 2/13, join the Labor for Higher Ed national strategy call to plan next steps in the fight to defend our healthcare, research, education, and jobs. And next Wed 2/19, connect with unions in your area for a day of action! Philly folks, bring coworkers to 2000 Market at noon on 2/19 ✊

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Join us! Fund don’t Freeze Higher Ed in Philly! @aaup-penn.bsky.social @uaw.org @taup4531.bsky.social @fsfccp.bsky.social @afscmedc47.bsky.social

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Billionaires are waging war on workers, putting healthcare, research, education, and jobs at risk. Workers at colleges and universities are facing tremendous uncertainty. Join us Thursday 2/13 at 8pm ET for a National Higher Ed Strategy Call: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

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“We will fight it every step of the way, legally, politically, and our members will be out in the street pushing back. There’s no way we will let them undermine higher education in this country.” - Todd Wolfson, AAUP President www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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