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Work. Labor. Unions. Healthcare.
"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...
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Opinion | This Is the Biggest Culprit for High Health Care Spending
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/04/opinion/health-care-hospitals-insurance.html?smid=bs-share
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The War on Cars
4 days ago
Wow. Where was the president of Cornell and did he know his car was capable of doing this on its own?
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Stefan Fatsis
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Ashton Pittman
3 days ago
Israel and Max Makoka are free from ICE custody and home because their community in Hancock County, Mississippiâa county where 79% voted for Trump in 2024ârallied to their cause and demanded action from their Republican U.S. senators. And their senators responded. Don't write anyone off. Anywhere.
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Israel and Max Makoka Are Coming Home After ICE Arrests Galvanized Their Mississippi Community
Israel and Max Makoka, the Hancock High School students whom ICE arrested, are free after Mississippi's U.S. senators intervened.
https://www.mississippifreepress.org/israel-and-max-makoka-are-coming-home-after-ice-arrests-galvanized-their-mississippi-community/
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"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/...
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Rutgers University - Foundation (Advancement) âź Events
Discover events from Rutgers University - Foundation (Advancement)
https://bt.rutgersfoundation.org/en/8a2AsaS7/mazzocchi-centennial-archive-conference-and-call-to-action-4a7pRb8mib/overview
7 days ago
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âRadiology Partners, which employs over 4,000 radiologists. The company now has 150 staff members working to bring arbitration claims.â Worldâs greatest healthcare systemâŠ.
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/22/u...
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A $440,000 Breast Reduction: How Doctors Cashed In on a Consumer Protection Law
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/22/us/politics/doctors-insurers-arbitration.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
9 days ago
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Hari Kunzru
11 days ago
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...
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Texas Tech Issues Ban On Students Writing On LGBTQ+ Topics
The ban applies to theses and dissertations, and is expected to begin going into effect on a rolling basis.
https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/texas-tech-issues-ban-on-students?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=994764&post_id=195286227&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=false&r=9s792&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email
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Chris Hanlon
14 days ago
Meet âASU Atomic,â 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.
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"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...
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Union Organizing Needs Leadership Density
Two former United Auto Workers organizers make the case for what they call a âleadership densityâ union organizing model. That model was central to recent UAW breakthroughs, and we should accept no su...
https://jacobin.com/2026/04/labor-strategy-uaw-leadership-auto?fbclid=IwY2xjawRY9MxleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETFoWWN5cW1UNlhseTk0bmgxc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHlEKMYnB2fu1E0MyUzMHL5xFftbG_YCrVo6wICVgvuqI7sZ9Nv3k0lTsfir__aem_Bog5wCLFMT-MCUggoBPDMA
11 days ago
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Will Jones
11 days ago
This is how we save higher ed! If you teach or conduct research at a college or university, join
@aaup.org
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A Professor Union Grows Fast as It Ramps Up Its Fight Against Trump
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/24/us/aaup-professor-union-fight-against-trump.html?unlocked_article_code=1.dVA.KJ-H.lE6JfmFn_Wqw
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âYouâre just seeing a massive growth in collective action on campuses by faculty and others.â â Bill Herbert, RIP
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/24/u...
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A Professor Union Grows Fast as It Ramps Up Its Fight Against Trump
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/24/us/aaup-professor-union-fight-against-trump.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
11 days ago
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Keung Hui
12 days ago
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
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www.newsobserver.com/news/local/e...
#ncpol
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CMS calls emergency meeting as leave requests mount for May 1 NC educator protest
Some district principals have reportedly paused leave requests for next Friday, out of concern there will not be enough teachers on their campus.
https://www.newsobserver.com/news/local/education/article315508436.html
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Andrea Devon
15 days ago
Rep. Analilia Mejia didnât come to play. She went back to the Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871. Then brought it straight to now. âStand up, defend, restore not only our democracy but also a just economy that actually works for working people.â
#SheShed
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Rep. LaMonica McIver
15 days ago
If thereâs one thing about New Jersey, itâs that we elect fighters. Excited to welcome a fighter to our ranks! Canât wait to partner with Analilia Mejia make life better in NJ.đ
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"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...
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Analilia Mejia sworn in as New Jerseyâs newest congresswoman - New Jersey Globe
Rep. Analilia Mejia (D-Glen Ridge) has become New Jerseyâs newest congresswoman, taking the oath of office in the U.S. House today just four days after
https://newjerseyglobe.com/congress/analilia-mejia-sworn-in-as-new-jerseys-newest-congresswoman/
15 days ago
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Action Together New Jersey
15 days ago
Congratulations Congresswoman Analilia Mejia!
#NJ11
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Scott MacFarlane
15 days ago
NEW: Rep.-elect Analilia Mejia (D-NJ) will be sworn in as U.S. House member within the hour. Further narrowing GOP majority
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Higher Education Labor United (HELU)
16 days ago
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...
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Joey Fishkin
20 days ago
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.
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https://president.yale.edu/sites/default/files/2026-04/Report-of-the-Committee-on-Trust-in-Higher-Education.pdf
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Ryan Enos
19 days ago
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...
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Chronicle of Higher Education
20 days ago
Chronicle Exclusive: Labor unions representing faculty and staff at 125 campuses across the Northeast are pledging to work toward shared bargaining goals. Hereâs what you need to know.
https://chroni.cl/4cd7paI
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Can a New Pact Help Higher-Ed Workers Secure Better Pay?
A diverse set of unions at 125 campuses across the Northeast have committed to pursuing the same goals.
https://chroni.cl/4cd7paI
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Daily News Union
21 days ago
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?
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United Faculty of Florida - FSU
22 days ago
Read this op-ed from the
@miamiherald.com
on growing threats to academic freedom, including the sidelining of sociology in Floridaâs universities
www.miamiherald.com/opinion/op-e...
#UFFFSU
#HigherEd
#FloridaNews
#AcademicSky
#FSU
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This is what politicizing higher education actually looks like in Florida | Opinion
FIU professor: The issue is not whether universities are political. The issue is whether they will remain places where ideas can be freely contested. | Opinion
https://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/op-ed/article315238253.html
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AFT
22 days ago
The new platform from AFT &
@aaup.org
is focused on: đRestored funding đFreedom to learn đShared governance: Ensuring faculty and staffânot corporate administratorsâmake final decisions on curriculum, research priorities and institutional priorities. đLabor reform
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United Teachers Los Angeles
23 days ago
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. â
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AFL-CIO
27 days ago
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
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Higher Ed Needs Collective Bargaining: Restore All Higher Education Workers' Collective Bargaining Rights
The Conference Committee on the Collective Bargaining Bills (HB1263 and SB378) has proposed excluding many higher education workersâeveryone except "service workers"âfrom collective bargaining. We kno...
https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/higher-ed-needs-collective-bargaining-restore-faculty-and-grad-workers-collective-bargaining-rights
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"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 writersâ credits and compensation."
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Screenwriters Union and Studios Swiftly Reach Tentative Deal
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/04/business/media/hollywood-writers-contract-deal.html?smid=bs-share
about 1 month ago
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Conor Sen
about 1 month ago
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.
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"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."
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about 1 month ago
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Arin Dube
about 1 month ago
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.
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Join us in celebrating Tony Mazzocchi's centennial - we'll be building for the future, together.
www.commondreams.org/opinion/tony...
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Come Celebrate the Life and Work of Tony Mazzocchi | Common Dreams
Given the mess weâre in today, now is the perfect time to celebrate his life and, perhaps, get our batteries recharged with the optimism Mazzocchi exuded from every pore.
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/tony-mazzocchi-labor-leader
about 1 month ago
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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...
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Unite for our Future, Defend our Community
I endorse the below bargaining demands in support of myself and my colleagues: Secure Employment Robust Funding for Research Fair Pay Increases for All Protections for Intellectual Proper...
https://actionnetwork.org/forms/bargaining-demands-petition?source=bluesky&
about 1 month ago
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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
about 1 month ago
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UAW
about 1 month ago
"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." đ°
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NYU Faculty Union Reaches Agreement to End Strike
After walking out on Monday, members returned to work on Wednesday ahead of voting on a deal that would secure raises and better job security.
https://ow.ly/Zfji50YyJJN
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Lori Emerson
about 1 month ago
OH MY HEART...the Oberlin Luddites Reject "The Year of AI Exploration"! đ
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John Warner
about 1 month ago
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.
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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.
about 1 month ago
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@seiu509.bsky.social
will be bringing a massive delivery of rainbow flags to BU imminently?
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about 1 month ago
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UAW
about 1 month ago
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
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Hari Kunzru
about 1 month ago
On the picket line fighting for a fair contract for NYU faculty
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âWe will win the strong contract that we need and deserve. But more importantly, we can win the university we need and deserve.â â Jacob Remes,
@uaw.org
www.thecity.nyc/2026/03/23/n...
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NYU Faculty Strike as Union and University Reach Impasse on Wages
More than 900 non-tenure track NYU professors went on strike on Monday morning, as students returned from spring break.
https://www.thecity.nyc/2026/03/23/nyu-faculty-strike-wages/
about 1 month ago
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AAUP
about 1 month ago
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 Centerâs annual conference at Hunter College.
@afthighered.bsky.social
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AAUP
about 1 month ago
âGround zero in an unprecedented nationwide assault on academic freedom & diversity.â A film tracking the conservative takeover of New College of Florida, titled âFirst They Came For Our Collegeâ premiered at SXSW.
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Film on the conservative takeover of New College premieres at SXSW, draws pushback from college
A film tracking the conservative takeover of New College of Florida, titled âFirst They Came For Our Collegeâ, has hit the big screens.
https://www.wmnf.org/film-documenting-the-conservative-takeover-of-new-college-plays-at-sxsw-heads-back-to-florida/
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Listen to this đ âWeâre gonna continue to go forward until we get the respect and the equity that our community, and especially the women, deserve.â
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about 2 months ago
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Project Salt Box
about 2 months ago
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.
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âMorale is as low as imaginable.â
www.govexec.com/workforce/20...
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Survey of 11,000 feds underscores âlayer cake of traumaâ
A new survey from the Partnership for Public Service, aimed at replicating the cancelled 2025 Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey, reveals just 7% of federal workers believe their political leaders enge...
https://www.govexec.com/workforce/2026/03/survey-11000-feds-underscores-layer-cake-trauma/412257/
about 2 months ago
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"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...
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Trump Administration Surveys Cornell Employees About Antisemitism
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/19/us/trump-administration-cornell-employees-antisemitism-eeoc.html?smid=bs-share
about 2 months ago
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"At NYU, contract faculty have grown tenfold over two decades, now comprising half of the schoolâs full-time faculty."
hyperallergic.com/im-an-nyu-co...
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Iâm an NYU Contract Professor. This Is Why We Plan to Strike.
For years, NYUâs administrators have casualized the schoolâs teaching force, many of them artists, by creating a second tier of full-time contract faculty.
https://hyperallergic.com/im-an-nyu-contract-professor-this-is-why-we-plan-to-strike/?fbclid=IwY2xjawQorelleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZBAyMjIwMzkxNzg4MjAwODkyAAEe_K91-e6HdHI_CtQeR-uVhzAdZ1FQ10CIL_vyaUeXwi5avRDCntsfmAIJe2Q_aem_IzJQbjpL3OrmAqhdVrDgTg
about 2 months ago
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