University of #Alaska staff #union filed an unfair labor practice complaint against admin. Admin. HAD said that staff need a 3% raise this year (still less than inflation). After staff unionized, admin. nixed raises (except for those who opt out of union). Union alleges retaliation. Share!

Browsing the #UAF subreddit, we noticed that University of #Alaska bigwig Owen Guthrie likes to post about SIG MPX submachine guns. Weird.

Hot tip: "The new president is also part of the anti-union firm that UA hired during the graduate students' campaign and after staff voted to unionize. He's also part of the Fairbanks Rotary Club, Pat's besties."

So the new University of #Alaska president makes a whopping $420,000 a year. Ex-Prez Rat Pitney's last year's salary was $395,000. That means the new prez (a rich real estate lawyer) is basically getting a 6.3% raise. Meanwhile, as revenge for unionizing, UA is giving staff a ZERO PERCENT RAISE.

Before staff unionized, University of #Alaska asked the legislature for money for 3% raises. "Critical," they said. Legislature budgeted the money. Now, as punishment, the bosses are saying they don't want the money. These parasites are not your friends! us17.campaign-archive.com?u=d3a3c194db...

In a crushing blow to the egos of hundreds of middle-managers across the University of #Alaska system, HR has issued new guidance in the wake of staff unionization. These petty ass fools should no longer take "disciplinary action beyond routine coaching" without HR holding their hand. Etc.

Anonymous tip: "I work on a UA campus. Most people dislike the top dog and distrust their inner circle. There have been many complaints to HR and to the top dog's superiors. Staff are divided between hoping someone will fix things after years of reports and deciding to quit." Keep the tips coming!

Staff looking to unionize -- do whatever you want. But don't fool yourselves. Only MILITANT, COLLECTIVE ACTION ACROSS ALL DIVISIONS gets the goods. ALL UA workers need to fight as ONE battle-forged formation! To do that, we need to operate outside the limits that legal unionism imposes on us!

Two "town hall" meetings about unionization: CAUSE-UAW's: a regular Zoom meeting. Anyone can use the chat to talk, ask questions, make comments, etc. Rat Pitney's: a one-way YouTube stream of rich people wearing suits "answering" questions that viewers never saw posed. Which will you trust?

New game: #Iran or the #University of #Alaska: You've suffered under disastrous leadership for years, leadership in which few people had any confidence at all. You arrange to pick the next leader in absolute secrecy. Which are you? #Iran or the #University of #Alaska? Answer: Both!

According to Löki Tobin's recent ADN article, "Alaska is now the only state whose public university system offers no four-year sociology degree, pushing a field built to study power and belonging to the margins." www.adn.com/opinions/202... #Alaska #Sociology #ASA #Diversity #DEI

Bus drivers in the Mat-Su Valley will strike next week. Meanwhile, the Anchorage School District will cut programs, close schools, and lay off dozens. ATTACKS ONE EDUCATION BOIL DOWN TO THE BOSSES WANTING TO PASS THE COST OF TRAINING NEW WORKERS ONTO THE WORKERS THEMSELVES! FIGHT BACK! SOLIDARITY!

Hot tip: Some adjunct faculty at the #UniversityOfAlaska #Fairbanks did not get paid until well into February. There is a grievance related to this. This follows the 2024 disaster in which huge numbers of University of #Alaska faculty missed their entire first paycheck.

We think legal #unions are incapable of uniting the entire working class to fight against the bosses in a gloves-off manner. Still, it is instructive to read CAUSE-UAW's responses to the obvious LIES that University of #Alaska bosses spew from their bully pulpit: www.cause-uaw.org/updates/get-...

As always, we rely on our readers for news about working conditions and struggles inside the University of #Alaska! Share, and we can publish your news anonymously!

Reminder: we have a private, anonymous chat that's open to all University of Alaska workers! And we just switched to a new, simpler app (called Quiet)! If you don't work at UA, pat yourself on the back, then share this with your friends who do! uaworkers.neocities.org/chat #uaa #uas #uaf #alaska

Finally some good news out of the University of #Alaska "Student arrested for eating AI art in University of Alaska Fairbanks gallery protest" www.uafsunstar.com/news/student... #ai #noai #antiai #fairbanks #universityofalaska #UAF #arts

Trade unionism manifest: Teamsters local 959 endorses Dan Sullivan. This is expected. Trade unions are limited to fighting for the most narrow, short-term interests of their members -- and not for the long-term interests of the whole class. Destroy the planet? Just be sure to create Teamster jobs.

Reminder: terrorist ICE fucks CANNOT enter private spaces on campus. That means if ICE is around, put at-risk students in your offices, your classrooms, student lounges, wherever is not publicly accessible. www.splcenter.org/resources/gu... #ICE #highered #education #universities #academia

Our site reached 30,000+ visits! Please continue to share with your friends in the University of #Alaska! And keep sending us tips and news. We're eager to provide a forum to all UA workers fighting for better pay and conditions! #HigherEd #Anchorage #Fairbanks #Juneau uaworkers.neocities.org

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A merry #Christmas to all, especially those who work for the University of #Alaska, where Christmas Eve is not a holiday but another 8-5 slog with low pay and poor treatment.

Passed along to us (thanks!): UA HR released a statement about hiring priority (deprioritized in state remote workers, a FREE benefit the university can offer at 0 cost to improve work life balance). Another sign of a decaying institution is demonizing remote workers: www.alaska.edu/news/hr/2025...

In her self-glorifying retirement announcement, Rat Pitney bragged about every coincidence that happened during her reign. Nothing about her fight against raises that kept pace with inflation or verbally denigrating the UA workforce (as overheard at an airport). Goodbye, Rat Pitney! #alaska

We live in a tumultuous world. But I take solace in the fact that the 2010 University of Alaska Fairbanks hockey intro video remains the most unhinged thing I’ve ever seen.

Got a tip that "a dean from a major academic division is monitoring who clicks on the links in the dean's newsletters." More tips plz #Alaska #Anchorage #Bethel #Dillingham #Fairbanks #Homer #HooperBay #Juneau #Kenai #Ketchikan #Kodiak #Kotzebue #MatSu #Nome #Sitka #Soldotna #Valdez #UAA #UAF #UAS

Our positions (and our attitude) are best expressed in our leaflet, "UA workers, prepare to strike! Let’s impose our will on the bosses!" uaworkers.neocities.org/media/strike...

The #University of #Alaska vomits an endless stream of bullshit when its administrators and HR toadies and talk about the staff #union. You'll quickly realize there's no "we." It's the bosses vs the rest of us. They have all the power. They control the internal "press." Shared governance? Ha!

Sign before noon on November 3! @uaworkers.neocities.org @universityofalaska.bsky.social @uafairbanks.bsky.social @aaup.org @aft.org

UA's biggest lie is "shared governance." But go read what the piss-ant bosses post in their newsletters. Endless attacks on the bottom 90%, whether it's unionized faculty or staff trying to unionize. In the University of #Alaska, no power is shared! It's the bosses against you! Let's change that!

Turning Point chapters are reviving at UA campuses. Expect these dweebs to try and get fired anyone to the left of, say, Mike Johnson. The bosses do not have your back in. Only solidarity and collective action can save us. At the first attack on ONE, ALL need to respond. Stop work! Wildcat strike!

If the #UniversityOfAlaska tries to punish you because you mentioned Charlie Kirk, please reach out to us. And the ACLU. And a lawyer.

The #University of #Alaska is paying student workers as little as $13.03 an hour (see the Fairbanks job posting for "Ice Arena Services Team - Student Assistant"). You can make more starting out at Arby's.

#University of #Alaska workers! Are you struggling to make ends meet? If so, President Rat Pitney says that's YOUR FAULT. But good news! President Rat Pitney has one easy, weird trick to making a living wage! Just get yourself promoted! That's all it takes -- a promotion up into administration!

The #UniversityOfAlaska regents who voted to remove DEI language from all University websites and publications. These people look totally qualified to make decisions about DEI, yeah? #Alaska

#UniversityofAlaska workers must now have certain medical care approved by third party company EviCore. EviCore is also known as EVIL CORE by critics who say its guidelines are "outdated," "inappropriately rigid," and delay care (per Wikipedia). www.alaska.edu/hr/benefits/... #Alaska

We have reservations -- to put it mildly -- about the value of the union form, what with its legal limits. But those who put their faith their own *collective* effort are still much wiser than the fools who think they can win better conditions and wages by and for themselves alone. Morons, scabs!

Those fighting for a University of #Alaska staff union say they are dealing with "stagnant salaries, increasing workloads, vanishing benefits, threats to job security," etc. But so are faculty -- and they're already unionized. Unions are no silver bullet. In fact, they are hardly a weapon. (1/5)

A reader pointed out that the University of #Alaska #Anchorage hosted the US and Russian delegates at this week's meeting between war criminals. Yuck. Long shot, but imagine a poor student having to sleep in the same bed Sergei Lavrov just used? Yuck x 2. www.thenorthernlight.org/stories/uaa-...

"I say this without any hesitancy: management is vicious. There's two things they want to keep: all the money and all the say-so." - CP Ellis, former Klansmen and then labor militant. He left the KKK when he saw the bosses used race to divide up the working class. www.shareable.net/wp-content/u...

Stakhanovism has come to the #University of #Alaska! At #UAS, the "Empower Alaska Incentive Plan" winner got a small bonus ... BECAUSE HE DID A SECOND JOB FOR FREE! This bullshit "merit bonus" program fucks over everyone, most of all the fools who believe in it. www.alaska.edu/bor/roadmap/...

University of #Alaska 2025 employee survey results: Only 41% feel they are paid fairly. Only 34% feel UA leadership cares about their well-being. Only 38% have confidence UA leadership makes the right decisions. Only 26% feel the survey will do any good. 🤣 uaworkers.neocities.org/survey_2025

A #University of #Alaska worker: "If not for freelance work, I could not afford to stay at UAA. ... I don't have any streaming services. ... I don't go on vacation unless somebody else pays for for most or all of it ... I literally pull food out of the dumpster to feed myself, my kid, and my pets."

"Instead of the conservative motto, 'A fair day's wage for a fair day's work!' they ought to inscribe on their banner the revolutionary watchword, 'Abolition of the wages system!'" - Karl Marx, Value, Price and Profit

In case you missed it. @universityofalaska.bsky.social @uaworkers.neocities.org @aaup.bsky.social

"It was a decision made over lunch, behind closed doors" youtu.be/dufK_GK1c5E @aaup.bsky.social @uaworkers.neocities.org @higheredlabor.bsky.social

When the bosses and politicians say all University of #Alaska workers are "in this together," that's a lie meant to bind you to the failures of their system. It's like the Russian newspaper that said Russian mothers share the blame for high Russian casualties in Ukraine.

University of Alaska President Pat Pitney: “There will be fewer employees here next year than there are here now because of those two factors.” 1 - cuts to federal grants 2 - cuts to the negotiated indirect cost recovery rate (part of federal research funding) #AkLeg #AlaskaSky #Alaska

Sen. Tobin says that the University of Alaska community is facing a lot of fear and uncertainty. Instead of meeting that with transparency and honesty, Resler chose to affirm a motion, she says, that would erase people like her from the University of Alaska system.

Nothing is forbidden in the struggle against the bosses! Don't let unions current and desired tie your hands! As Big Bill Haywood said, "Do you blame me when I say I despise the law? I am not a law-abiding citizen. ... More than this, no socialist can be a law-abiding citizen." CLASS STRUGGLE!