"Congress should cap the prices monopoly hospitals can negotiate with private insurers, using Medicare rates or prices in other competitive markets as benchmarks." www.nytimes.com/2026/05/04/o...

Wow. Where was the president of Cornell and did he know his car was capable of doing this on its own?

New York Times (left), Cornell Daily Sun (right) 🤔

Israel and Max Makoka are free from ICE custody and home because their community in Hancock County, Mississippi—a county where 79% voted for Trump in 2024—rallied to their cause and demanded action from their Republican U.S. senators. And their senators responded. Don't write anyone off. Anywhere.

"Movements grow in desperate times. We are being born." Hoping you'll join us at the Tony Mazzocchi centennial in New Jersey in June. bt.rutgersfoundation.org/en/8a2AsaS7/...

“Radiology Partners, which employs over 4,000 radiologists. The company now has 150 staff members working to bring arbitration claims.” World’s greatest healthcare system…. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/22/u...

Texas tech now bans students from writing about LGBTQ issues in any form. Mentions of gender identity, orientation etc in textbooks must be skipped. Deafening silence so far from all the brave heterodox free speech absolutists www.erininthemorning.com/p/texas-tech...

Meet “ASU Atomic,” a subscription platform that claims to offer customized learning modules for fee-paying users. None of the ASU faculty whose course materials were harvested for the module I generated were aware that their image, lectures, lessons, or other teaching materials are being used.

"A leader is a worker who is willing to fight for the union, receptive to feedback on how to speak with coworkers, and capable of moving their coworkers into action. Leaders are those who are public and willing to speak to their coworkers when the time is right." jacobin.com/2026/04/labo...

This is how we save higher ed! If you teach or conduct research at a college or university, join @aaup.org

“You’re just seeing a massive growth in collective action on campuses by faculty and others.” — Bill Herbert, RIP www.nytimes.com/2026/04/24/u...

CMS calls emergency meeting as leave requests mount for May 1 NC educator protest. School board will meet Friday to decide whether to cancel May 1 classes after 1,875 of the district's 9,000 teachers requested leave. (Via @rebeccanoel.bsky.social) www.newsobserver.com/news/local/e... #ncpol #nced

Rep. Analilia Mejia didn’t come to play. She went back to the Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871. Then brought it straight to now. “Stand up, defend, restore not only our democracy but also a just economy that actually works for working people.” #SheShed

If there’s one thing about New Jersey, it’s that we elect fighters. Excited to welcome a fighter to our ranks! Can’t wait to partner with Analilia Mejia make life better in NJ.💜

"As her first official acts in office, Mejia signed onto a discharge petition led by fellow New Jersey Rep. Donald Norcross (D-Camden) reforming the National Labor Relations Act" newjerseyglobe.com/congress/ana...

Congratulations Congresswoman Analilia Mejia! #NJ11

NEW: Rep.-elect Analilia Mejia (D-NJ) will be sworn in as U.S. House member within the hour. Further narrowing GOP majority

Wednesday, April 22 at 8pm ET: Join HELU, @sanders.senate.gov, @sunrisemvmt.bsky.social, @ydsa.org, @aaup.org, @ueunion.org, and more to gear up for May Day. Hear how students and workers are organizing for freedom, affordability, and safety all across the country. www.mobilize.us/sunrisemovem...

The Yale report on trust in higher education has some good recommendations for reforms in many areas that I hope Yale and other schools implement. But its diagnosis is oddly silent about what I suspect is the most important force driving the decline in trust in higher education: political attack.

People need to step back on this Yale report on mistrust in higher education. It is a report on public opinion that does not actually engage in any public opinion research. Rather, they talked to a bunch of elites with strong opinions about higher education. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/15/u...

Chronicle Exclusive: Labor unions representing faculty and staff at 125 campuses across the Northeast are pledging to work toward shared bargaining goals. Here’s what you need to know. https://chroni.cl/4cd7paI

This week is the first at the Daily News since Heath Freeman's Alden Capital laid off our entire print production staff. It's embarrassing to open the paper we work so hard for each day and find mistakes like this. Is this the level of editing New Yorkers can count on going forward?

Read this op-ed from the @miamiherald.com on growing threats to academic freedom, including the sidelining of sociology in Florida’s universities www.miamiherald.com/opinion/op-e... #UFFFSU #HigherEd #FloridaNews #AcademicSky #FSU

The new platform from AFT & @aaup.org is focused on: 🎓Restored funding 🎓Freedom to learn 🎓Shared governance: Ensuring faculty and staff—not corporate administrators—make final decisions on curriculum, research priorities and institutional priorities. 🎓Labor reform

UTLA's 150-member Bargaining Team reached a tentative two-year agreement w/the district with big wins that the team enthusiastically recommends to UTLA members for ratification. ⁠

Higher education workers deserve the same collective bargaining rights as other state workers. Sign the petition to urge Governor Spanberger to amend HB1263 and SB378 to restore collective bargaining rights for higher education workers! https://bit.ly/4mgOi2V

"In the end, studios agreed to a Writers Guild contract that included an increase in royalty payments for streamed content and guarantees that artificial intelligence technology would not encroach on writers’ credits and compensation." www.nytimes.com/2026/04/04/b...

Over the past year the US economy has added 680,000 healthcare and social assistance jobs and lost 420,000 jobs in all other industries.

"Results suggest that labor market responses beyond the canonical model that focuses on parents alone lead to sizable economic returns to early childhood education investments."

My book, The Wage Standard, is dedicated to Frank Morley, someone who taught me a lot about economics when I was in grad school. Frank worked at the Harvard Economics Department.

Join us in celebrating Tony Mazzocchi's centennial - we'll be building for the future, together. www.commondreams.org/opinion/tony...

Members of @ruaaup-aft.bsky.social and @ruaaup-ptl.bsky.social: Sign on to support our demands! Unite for our Future, Defend our Community. actionnetwork.org/forms/bargai...

Has Dan Goldman ever walked a picket line? Lots of opportunities in his district since he entered congress, including @sbworkersunited.org and CFU @uaw.org? Curious as to whether he's been on the line with striking workers

"Striking faculty returned to work Wednesday having won 'the highest minimum salaries of any unionized full-time, non-tenure track faculty in the country,' Brendan Hogan, a philosophy professor and spokesperson for CFU-UAW, said in a statement." 📰 ow.ly/Zfji50YyJJN

OH MY HEART...the Oberlin Luddites Reject "The Year of AI Exploration"! 💚

Using Canvas agentic AI to do your work for you signals that your work is worth less than it was prior to that act. The idea that this will, long term, free faculty time is belied by every single thing we know about the history of labor automation. It either puts you out of work, or you work more.

Perhaps fitting that Contract Faculty United @uaw.org at NYU, just won an amazing tentative agreement, on March 25th, the day we commemorate the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire, on NYU's own campus. Solidarity forever.

I assume @seiu509.bsky.social will be bringing a massive delivery of rainbow flags to BU imminently?

On strike, shut it down! New York is a union town! The solidarity is massive on the Contract Faculty United picket at NYU! @uawregion9a.bsky.social

On the picket line fighting for a fair contract for NYU faculty

“We will win the strong contract that we need and deserve. But more importantly, we can win the university we need and deserve.” – Jacob Remes, @uaw.org www.thecity.nyc/2026/03/23/n...

Organizing begins by talking with your colleagues, learning what shared issues you face, and then taking action together. Todd Wolfson spoke about how AAUP-AFT & unions respond to threats to higher ed at the National Center’s annual conference at Hunter College. @afthighered.bsky.social

“Ground zero in an unprecedented nationwide assault on academic freedom & diversity.” A film tracking the conservative takeover of New College of Florida, titled “First They Came For Our College” premiered at SXSW.

Listen to this 👇 “We’re gonna continue to go forward until we get the respect and the equity that our community, and especially the women, deserve.”

ICE issued a nearly $6 million contract to GEO Group for another year of detainee transportation and armed guard services at Delaney Hall in Newark, NJ. The performance period runs from March 2026 to February 2027.

“Morale is as low as imaginable.” www.govexec.com/workforce/20...

"The E.E.O.C., which reached many people through personal email addresses, asked Cornell employees to respond by March 31, and it urged recipients not to take the survey during work hours or on university-owned devices." www.nytimes.com/2026/03/19/u...

"At NYU, contract faculty have grown tenfold over two decades, now comprising half of the school’s full-time faculty." hyperallergic.com/im-an-nyu-co...