Lecturer bargaining is this Thursday, April 9 on Zoom. RSVP if you’re a lecturer or ally who wants to observe. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... #WeTeachUC

UC-AFT lecturers continue the fight for a fair contract! Show your solidarity with U18 colleagues by observing Zoom or in-person bargaining sessions. #WeTeachUC weteachuc.org

Coming up in two weeks, the UC-AFT Unit 18 table team will be bargaining in person at UC Davis. If you’re local and want to show your solidarity with lecturers in securing a fair contract, RSVP to participate at bit.ly/4v8W2HZ #WeTeachUC

Amy is a lecturer at UC San Diego. Check out her hopes for a new contract below.✊ #WeTeachUC weteachuc.org

Reminder to all @ucaft.bsky.social Berkeley lecturers: Deadline for professional development fund applications is less than 2 weeks away. Be sure to submit by 5pm on April 10. Details at: ucaft.org/wp-content/u...

Jennifer is a lecturer at UC Riverside. Read her hopes for a new contract below.✊ #WeTeachUC weteachuc.org

Check out the Unit 18 lecturer bargaining update from our session on March 19. Next bargaining date: April 9 on Zoom.✊ weteachuc.org/2026/03/27/b...

The Trump administration is working with billionaires and ICE to take over and transform higher education. Join us at #NoKings tomorrow to rise up against authoritarianism and its federal abuses and to affirm that this nation belongs to its people, not to kings. No Thrones. No Crowns. No Kings.

Amy is a lecturer at UC Irvine. Check out her hopes for a new contract below.✊ #WeTeachUC weteachuc.org

Erika is a lecturer at UC Davis. Read her hopes for a new contract below.✊ #WeTeachUC weteachuc.org

Joseph Klett is a lecturer at UC Berkeley and serves on the UC-AFT Unit 18 contract bargaining table team. Read Joseph’s hopes for a new contract below.✊ #WeTeachUC weteachuc.org

Nolan Higdon is a lecturer at UC Santa Cruz and serves on the UC-AFT Unit 18 contract bargaining table team. Read Nolan’s hopes for a new contract below.✊ #WeTeachUC weteachuc.org @nolanhigdon.bsky.social

Cam Clark is a field work supervisor at UC Berkeley Law and serves on the UC-AFT Unit 18 contract bargaining table team. Read Cam’s hopes for a new contract below.✊ #WeTeachUC weteachuc.org

Katie Arosteguy is a lecturer at UC Davis and serves on the UC-AFT Unit 18 contract bargaining table team. Read Katie’s hopes for a new contract below.✊ #WeTeachUC weteachuc.org

Lecturer contract bargaining coming up this week! Thursday, March 19 at UCLA. #WeTeachUC weteachuc.org

Tommy Tran is a lecturer at UC Merced and serves on the UC-AFT Unit 18 contract bargaining table team. Read Tommy’s hopes for a new contract below.✊ #WeTeachUC weteachuc.org

Hey UC-AFT lecturers at Berkeley: Apply now to the Professional Development Fund to support your teaching, research, and scholarship! Proposal deadline is April 10, 5pm. Find all the info at tr.ee/PwRioIf4nR @ucaft.bsky.social

UC-AFT lecturer contract negotiations have begun. We won open bargaining, so let’s pack the sessions in solidarity with Unit 18 teaching faculty! Here are upcoming bargaining dates in March and April. weteachuc.org #WeTeachUC

Modeling budget democracy for higher education: @cnewf.bsky.social critiques @ucirvine.bsky.social for cutting funds for instruction while accumulating hundreds of millions in reserves. Cosponsored by @ucaft.bsky.social and @uc-faculty.bsky.social . youtu.be/T-8MA3VnWQA?...

“Lecturers have been left in limbo as the termination threatens to be one of the largest lecturer layoffs in campus history.” 👎 www.dailycal.org/news/campus/... @ucaft.bsky.social

Faculty + unionized workers are the real leaders of the University of California, repelling funding cuts and attacks on research and teaching. The UC President and highly-paid administrators sit on the sidelines with harebrained dreams they can negotiate with Trump. www.latimes.com/california/s...

As proud as I’ve ever been to be a member of the @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social!! afscme31.org/news/america...

Let the sun shine in: Non-senate faculty, librarians rally at UCD www.davisenterprise.com/news/let-the...

UCSB lecturers hold UC-AFT union contract kickoff dailynexus.com/2026-02-26/u...

“The union will be prioritizing permanent job status, higher pay and better protections for academic freedom and free speech rights — all issues that would make lecturers know that their work is valued the same as that of other UC instructors.”✊ lookout.co/uc-lecturers...

“When we say, ‘we run UC’, it’s really the people that make this University possible,” Luce said in the interview. “As long as we stay resolute and stand together, we can protect this place and defend the value of public higher education.” dailybruin.com/2026/02/24/u...

UC-AFT lecturers began negotiations with a rally and bake sale Feb. 19. A new contract would govern the more than 7,000 teaching faculty throughout the UC system. @ucaft.bsky.social www.dailycal.org/news/uc/uc-a...

“What we see here is disparate treatment,” said UC-AFT Grievance Steward Ian Davis. “Here’s a policy and it’s been applied to one person despite the universe of politically-informed discussions and debates on campus.” www.dailycal.org/news/campus/... @ucaft.bsky.social @uc-faculty.bsky.social

Solidarity with @ucaft.bsky.social lecturers as they kick off contract bargaining today at Berkeley!✊ #WeTeachUC

RSVP: www.aaup.org/event/drop-i...

Lecturers contract bargaining starts February 19th! Berkeley Unit 18: Show your support all day at Bauer Wurster Hall. Everyone: Join us for a solidarity bake sale at California Hall from 10:30am-2:00pm! @ucaftbayarea.bsky.social @karodger.bsky.social #WeTeachUC

NEW: The Trump administration has dropped its appeal of a federal court order blocking its $1.2-billion settlement demand to UCLA over alleged campus civil rights violations: www.latimes.com/california/s...

UC-AFT lecturers are kicking off contract bargaining on February 19. At Berkeley, Unit 18 lecturers can show their support at Bauer Wurster Hall throughout the day, and everyone can stop by California Hall for a solidarity bake sale 10:30a-2:00p! ✊🥧 @ucaft.bsky.social

AAUP President Todd Wolfson issued the following statement in response to Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt's Executive Order issued today immediately eliminating academic tenure at the state’s public regional universities and community colleges.

We asked Unit 18 lecturers, “What are your hopes for the new contract?” Here’s the response of Erika S. from the UCD Writing Center.

We asked Unit 18 lecturers, “What are your hopes for the new contract?” Here’s the response of Jennifer R. from UCR’s Comparative Literature & Languages Department.

We asked Unit 18 lecturers, “What are your hopes for the new contract?” Here’s the response of Amy K. from the UCSD Latin American Studies Program.

Sunshining is a legally mandated meeting that takes place before the start of collective bargaining negotiations. Reps from UC-AFT and UC management put forward proposals for the new contract. The public is allowed to comment on the contract and larger issues at stake.

Unit 18 lecturers, it’s time for sunshine! Get ready for a statewide day of action on February 19 as we begin bargaining for a new contract!

“For every human being that has been hunted based on their skin color, their form of labor, their language and their existence, we claim belonging to the land that we call the U.S.” Kudos to the organizers who pulled off yesterday's UCLA rally and march, a demonstration of students' potential power

Solidarity with UCB students standing against ICE terror in Minneapolis and everywhere. www.dailycal.org/news/campus/...

“The judges said that the Trump administration cannot freeze federal funding based on unsubstantiated claims of antisemitism. That’s just not allowed.” —Todd Wolfson, AAUP President The AAUP is standing up for our students, faculty & communities in the courts, on our campuses and in the streets.

"Judge Young ordered on Thursday that any future attempts to deport members of the two academic organizations that had sued could be immediately challenged in court, where the Trump admin would need to prove that it was not retaliating against the members over their speech or academic work."

The California Labor Movement stands in solidarity with our brothers and sisters in Minnesota as they protest ICE’s actions and declare Friday a day of no work, school or shopping. (1/3)

UC-AFT’s statewide Council voted unanimously on a resolution in solidarity with Minnesota workers striking on January 23, 2026. ucaft.org/news/resolut... @mplsunions.bsky.social

“When your coworkers aren’t safe, nobody is safe … [but] workers are in a strong position to take action. This country is run by workers.” inthesetimes.com/article/minn... @ucaft.bsky.social @inthesetimes.com

CFT President Jeff Freitas on the murder of an innocent bystander by an ICE agent earlier today in Minneapolis. In November of 2025, CFT called on ICE to be abolished. Read CFT's resolution here: www.cft.org/resolution/abolish-ice-and-end-militarization-our-communities

“This is not just a failure of one chancellor, it is a systemic failure of leadership at the highest levels — including President Jeffrey Gold & the Board of Regents — who endorsed these decisions, ignored faculty governance, & approved this payout.” — Alexander Vazansky, UNL AAUP