Loyola Marymount University has abruptly stopped recognizing its faculty union after 10 months of negotiations, citing constitutional religious exemptions, @suhauna.bsky.social reports www.latimes.com/business/sto...

The @aaup.org just shared guidance for academic workers on how to protect themselves online www.aaup.org/news/advisor...

when our university fails us, the workers who make UC run will stand up and fight back

UC employees, not waiting on leaders, sue Trump for 'financial coercion' over UCLA cuts

New Mexico will soon have free universal childcare and tuition free college for all.

BREAKING: On a 2-1 vote, the D.C. Circuit rejects the Trump administration's request to allow Trump's purported firing of Fed Board Governor Lisa Cook to take effect during litigation. She will remain on the board for now, absent a further court order to the contrary.

The Dept of Education is now accepting comments on a proposed rule that would overhaul Public Service Loan Forgiveness, and make it too expensive for students to go into work that threatens the Trump administration Folks have til *Sept. 17* to oppose the changes ballsandstrikes.org/legal-cultur...

The AAUP notes with great alarm the rash of recent administrative actions to discipline faculty, staff, & student speech in the aftermath of the murder of Charlie Kirk. 1/4

"Asking us to build factories and invest then arresting and detaining. Is this what an ally does?" -- Protest sign at airport where South Korean workers, including engineers with work visas, were returned www.wsj.com/world/asia/c...

Farm Aid 40 to Move Forward In Minneapolis Farm Aid is grateful that the University of Minnesota and Teamsters Local 320 have reached an agreement. We are thrilled to confirm that Farm Aid 40 will go forward in Minneapolis as planned.

Indeed it was illegal. But we can thank SCOTUS for making full relief impossible.

"The plan to back scientific research calls for... a 2026 ballot measure, a proposed $23 billion in bonds, financing that will allow the state to make grants and loans to universities, research companies and health care organizations." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/13/u...

BREAKING: California’s $23 Billion Plan to Restore Federal Cuts to Scientific Research www.nytimes.com/2025/09/13/u...

PhD student union at Emory just ratified our first contract (and first union contract at Emory, first PhD union contract in Georgia). It's got some good stuff, but also I'm just very happy to be done bargaining!

I am so excited about this conference, coming in June, honoring the centennial of the late, great Tony Mazzocchi. Save the date, and sign up below to get updates!

A short First Amendment 🧵: First, the professor was fired b/c he urged "revolutionary socialists" to organize: “Without organization, how can anyone expect to overthrow the most bloodthirsty, profit-driven, mad organization in the history of the world — that of the United States?”

🚨What has happened at Texas A&M this week should concern every Texan. Not only has the integrity of academic freedom come under fire, but the due process rights of a faculty member have been trampled at the urging of state politicians + the governor himself. www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston...

Big new academic bargaining unit just dropped www.yahoo.com/news/article...

When Campus Reform and Turning point came after professors and created the professor watchlist, administrators didn't pay attention..Now they are being fired and attacked. Maybe institutions should have done more to protect academic freedom....

New: the Beloit Student Workers Union, a union of undergraduates at Beloit College in Wisconsin, recently ratified its first collective bargaining agreement. The union was organized under a neutrality agreement with the college: bloximages.newyork1.vip.townnews.com/wrex.com/con...

This undersells what insurance exchange policyholders will feel if Congress doesn't act. The 18 percent increase is on the raw cost of insurance. But many will also lose enhanced subsidies that expire at the end of December. Those people will feel an average increase of *more than 75%.*

I spoke with @sbworkersunited.org about their ongoing fight for a first union contract and CEO Brian Niccol's first year, his exorbitant pay, and the failures of his 'Back to Starbucks' strategy www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

This picture is my love language

The Onion News Network truck is currently stationed outside the Broadview ICE Detention facility just outside of Chicago.

Trump is waging war on higher ed to advance his project to construct a fascist authoritarian regime. Campus workers are uniquely positioned to articulate an alternative vision and wage a united struggle to win it. New Dig w @higheredlabor.bsky.social’s Ian Gavigan www.thedigradio.com/podcast/clas...

And that's how immigration enforcement trumps labor rights. Pun intended. For all its problems, the NLRA made no distinction between citizen and non-citizen workers. The Supreme Court introduced that distinction, and in the context of a mixed-status workforce undermined labor rights for all /8.

In two malpractice cases against Leo Terrell, head of Trump’s antisemitism task force, he denied any negligence or responsibility for harm, insisting his clients approved his actions. “He’s a discredit to the legal profession,” one lawyer said.

The BFI today release a special centenary edition of Sergei Eisenstein’s legendary silent film “Battleship Potemkin” with music by Pet Shop Boys.

If you care about employment and jobs, check out and join Friends of BLS. They show up for us. We need to show up for them. www.friendsofbls.org/about-the-fr...

From the ProPublica piece cataloging high Trump administration officials who have done exactly what DOJ alleges that Lisa Cook did, yet who are not facing calls for removal or prosecution.

We won!! “Defendants used antisemitism as a smokescreen for a targeted, ideologically-motivated assault on this country’s premier universities … Their actions have jeopardized decades of research and the welfare of all those who could stand to benefit from that research.”

In April, the AAUP & our Harvard chapter sued the Trump admin for demanding that Harvard censor speech & restructure core operations or else face $8.7 billion in funding cuts. We hope this decision clarifies to Harvard’s administration that bargaining w/ tyrannical authoritarians is unacceptable.

"The A.I. companies selected to oversee the program would have a strong financial incentive to deny claims. Medicare plans to pay them a share of the savings generated from rejections." www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/h...

"At the V.A., where 395,000 employees lost their union rights, people who planned to take 16 weeks of parental leave, as negotiated in their union contracts, will only have a guarantee of 12 weeks, the minimum required by law." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/u...

Roughly half of STEM doctorates go to international students each year. Historically most of them have wanted to stay in the US after graduation nces.ed.gov/programs/coe...

Trump admin planning to change student visas from lasting for duration of academic program to fixed 4-yr term, and then much harder to renew Could destroy US ability to attract global talent, particularly those seeking advanced degrees in STEM. The median time to complete a PhD is 5.7 yrs per NSF.

“So, when somebody comes & tells us, ‘No, you can’t say these words, you can’t teach this book…this class…it’s basically like saying to a doctor, ‘You’ve trained for years to become a doctor, but we’re not going to let you see patients. You’ll have to do office work.” — Isaac Kamola, AAUP CDAF

😡 So CDC is important enough to national security that we’re banned from having union bargaining units. But not important enough to merit a mention by the president after we endure a domestic terrorist attack. Got it. #fireRFKJ #FDJT

Rutgers LIS is hiring in information policy, ad here: jobs.rutgers.edu/postings/258... Applications due 10/15. Rutgers - in NJ - is a good place ot be, given the state of things. Strong union. Close to NYC and Philly. Holler if you have questions.

Come work with @ruaaup-aft.bsky.social and @ruaaup-ptl.bsky.social! Please help us spread the word unionjobs.com/listing.php?...

The coalition of UC unions condemns Trump’s attacks on the University of California. Read more: ucaft.org/news/the-coa... @calnurses.bsky.social @afscme3299.bsky.social @aaup.org @uaw4811.bsky.social @uptecwa.bsky.social @teamsterslocal2010.bsky.social @ucaftbayarea.bsky.social

AAUP President Todd Wolfson denounces planned academic cuts at the University of Oregon, laying out several concerns. @uauoregon.bsky.social 🧵

"You’re basically knee-capping that younger generation" @isaackamola.bsky.social on widespread job dissatisfaction in academia. Faculty working conditions are student learning conditions! hechingerreport.org/a-great-defe...

Trump’s attempt to remove Fed Governor Lisa Cook is illegal and politically motivated. It threatens Fed independence—and the economy. The courts must block this. Here's my full statement—it explains exactly how this will hurt the economy in a (hopefully) accessible way: www.epi.org/press/trumps...

The EPA is trying to stop employees doing union work outside of work time, claiming it's a conflict of interest.... prospect.org/labor/2025-0...

BREAKING: Workers at Yosemite and Sequoia-Kings Canyon National Parks just won their union elections. They are the first national parks to unionize in several years.

The scavenger hunt is using NYC mayoral history to paint Mamdani as firmly within the mainstream of that history. On age. On DSA membership. On public transportation policy. It's such a smart way to launch the general election campaign.

TL;DR: 5 justices say Trump doesn't have to immediately restore the funding, but 5 *also* signal that the underlying directives are unlawful. That sends a fairly strong (if mixed) message that Trump will lose these cases *eventually,* but only once they're brought in the Court of Federal Claims.

"The federal government’s HR arm said it wouldn’t conduct the survey at all this year because it was still editing it. It did not explain how the administration would comply with a legal requirement for agencies to administer annual surveys of federal workers." www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

A new report from @epi.org shows that states with high union density also have: ✊Higher incomes ✊Greater access to health & unemployment insurance ✊Higher spending on education ✊Greater access to sick leave ✊Fewer restrictions on voting rights #WorkersDeserve