Trump is demanding $1.2B from UCLA and UC leadership won't fight back or tell the public that they are negotiating in secret. Write to the Board of Regents and UC Office of the President (UCOP) demanding No Negotiation with Trump. cucfa.solidarity.tech/tell-ucop-an...

It is disappointing for @uofcalifornia.bsky.social, a public institution, to engage in the kind of anti-worker rhetoric we typically see from union-busters. UPTE members ARE the union. We make decisions democratically, grounded in our daily experiences. Log off and come walk a day in our shoes.

Hell yes let’s gooooooo @ucaft.bsky.social

UC nurses are joining our union siblings at @afscme3299.bsky.social and @uptecwa.bsky.social for a sympathy strike on Nov. 17 & 18. We stand united against UC's attempts to cut corners and deprive our coworkers of fair contracts. If you take on one of us, you take on all of us!

More than 60 California professors say they are suppressing their own work due to Trump's looming threats over UC. The chill is affecting students 7 medical patients alike. "The purpose is censorship," said Veena Dubal, AAUP General Counsel & UC Irvine professor. @veenadubal.bsky.social

STRIKE ANNOUNCEMENT: UPTE will be striking at all UC locations Nov. 17th & 18th in response to UC's failure to agree to a fair contract. It's time to RESET UC'S PRIORITIES. RSVP now: upte.org/rsvp

Following the successful faculty association lawsuit, the UC admininstration was forced to release Trump’s extortionist demands of UCLA. Now is the time to tell President Milliken and the UC Regents to refuse any concessions. Sign it: actionnetwork.org/letters/hold... @uc-faculty.bsky.social

Calling all UC-AFT lecturers: Join the November 14 Fall Bargaining Summit on Zoom. We’ll be discussing our contract pillars and building collective power as we move toward bargaining. RSVP now! us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

UCLA faculty rally against Trump administration’s settlement demands dailybruin.com/2025/10/28/u... @uclafa.bsky.social @uc-faculty.bsky.social

So, @uofcalifornia.bsky.social's fancy new $175+ million hotel is sure to help address the staffing issues hindering our research, delaying care to our patients, and enhancing the academic environment of our students, right? 😑

Today, we rallied at the Residence Inn by Marriott Berkeley to call out UC’s $175.8 million hotel splurge. UPTE members and allies showed up to say: fund people, not luxury hotels. That’s not public service—that’s a broken priority list. UC must reset its priorities. #UC #UnionStrong

“Our working conditions could be directly impacted by this proposal, and we wanted to understand exactly how.” - @lucecaroline.bsky.social laist.com/news/educati...

The Trump administration has demanded, among other things, that UCLA not enroll “foreign students likely to engage in anti-Western, anti-American, or antisemitic disruptions or harassment.”

Who is Marc Rowan? Higher Ed Loyalty Oath and How We Fight Back Th, Oct 30, 7pm ET Billionaire Marc Rowan, CEO of Apollo Global, is key author of the Trump admin's compact for higher ed—a loyalty oath. Open to AAUP and AFT members, higher ed and healthcare workers, union members, student groups.

The UC had to be compelled by the Supreme Court of California to release this proposal, the culmination of a lawsuit filed by @uc-faculty.bsky.social. Now the public gets to see the absolute extortionist tactics the Trump administaration is posing to UCLA. www.dailycal.org/news/uc/uc-r...

At a planned rally today at UCLA, faculty associations of UCLA and the wider UC are taking a victory lap and urging Gov. Newsom to join their fight against President Donald Trump’s demands for a $1.2-billion settlement with the renowned public university. bit.ly/48KnvXW 📸 Raquel Natalicchio

Hey academic #LibraryWorkers: Join us next week (11/5 at 4pmPT) for another Library Workers Organizing Meeting & Strategy Session hosted byt @higheredlabor.bsky.social us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi... Let's collectively fight for better libraries!

At long last, after costly litigation in which UCOP refused to make public the Trump demand letter to UCLA — here it is!!! Many thanks to CUCFA for their appeal of the PRA denial. Here is to shared governance and academic freedom! @aaup ucop.edu/communicatio...

BREAKING: The California Supreme Court has DENIED the University of California's request that it block the release of a 28-page, $1.2-billion fine Trump administration UCLA settlement offer. UC is required to give a faculty group the document today. www.latimes.com/california/s...

NEW: The CA Supreme Court rejected the University of California's appeal to block a ruling forcing the UC to share the Trump settlement demand of $1.2 billion. UC faculty sued to have the letter released in an effort to make it public. To date we've known limited elements of what Trump seeks.

“For many years, I thought we didn’t need a union,” says Walter Leal, a professor of molecular and cellular biology at UC Davis. “Now, I believe the only way out is if we’re effectively unionized, which is a very dramatic change.” www.science.org/content/arti... @uc-faculty.bsky.social

Insane stance for the UC to take. Faculty, workers, and students are the ones protecting our academic communities. And we deserve to know what the adminstration is negotiating with Trump behind closed doors. www.latimes.com/california/s... @uc-faculty.bsky.social @ucaft.bsky.social

UCLA must release Trump's extortion demands. Courts side with UCLA Faculty Association to force release of public documents. The 28 page letter should be released by Friday. Big victory for @uclafa.bsky.social, all faculty, students, parents, and Californians www.latimes.com/california/s...

The resistance to Trump’s “loyalty oath” compact is growing and growing! ✅MIT ✅Penn ✅Brown ✅UVa ✅Dartmouth ✅USC ✅Arizona 🟩 Vanderbilt 🟩 Texas Organized faculty and workers in higher ed will lead us to victory and towards a better world for our students! #NoLoyaltyOaths #NoKings #DefendHigherEd

“Stay Out of the Bay” — Emergency Mobilization Call tonight (Oct 22, 6pm). Click to RSVP for the Zoom.✊ actionnetwork.org/events/stay-... @ucaft.bsky.social @cftunion.bsky.social

Attention UC-AFT teaching faculty: Save the date for our Fall Bargaining Summit on Nov 14 at noon. RSVP for the Zoom and join UC lecturers from across the state to discuss building power in upcoming negotiations.✊ us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

ICYMI | The University of Virginia and @dartmouthcollege.bsky.social have become the latest higher ed institutions to publicly reject the Trump administration’s “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education.” Read more ➡️ https://bit.ly/4o8MDN2

🚨 Breaking News | UVA Becomes 5th University to Reject Trump Higher Ed Compact The university is the first public, and Southern, institution to publicly turn down the administration's “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education." https://bit.ly/47tWIOl #EDUSky #AcademicSky #HigherEd

BREAKING: USC HAS JOIN THE RESISTANCE! That’s four (MIT, Brown, Penn, USC) of the nine schools Trump targeted. Stay tuned! 🍿 #DefendHigherEd #StandUpFightBack

“With its compact, the Trump administration is attempting to silence not just university presidents, but every school, department and center that universities run.” @ucaft.bsky.social @aaup.org @uc-faculty.bsky.social

“We call on university leaders, faculty, staff and students to unite in rejecting the Trump compact and to defend the principle that no president has the right to buy obedience or sell off freedom.” Sign the petition now! actionnetwork.org/petitions/tr... @aaup.org @afthighered.bsky.social

Join AAUP's National Teach-In on Trump's Loyalty Oaths! Tomorrow, Oct 17pm at 2pmET on Zoom. Be there! Register at link below👇 #AcademicSky #DefendHigherEd

When students, faculty, and our communities are united to fight for our universities, for the common good, and for our democracy, nothing can stop us! WHEN WE FIGHT, WE WIN! @aft @higheredlabor.bsky.social #DefendHigherEd

via the Daily Bruin: Judge rules UC must publicize Trump administration settlement demands dailybruin.com/2025/10/14/j... @ucaft.bsky.social @ucaftbayarea.bsky.social @uc-faculty.bsky.social

Rise up, fight back! ✊🏽http://edsource.org/?page_id=742822

Attention UC-AFT teaching faculty: Save the date for our Fall Bargaining Summit on Nov 14 at noon. RSVP for the Zoom and join UC lecturers from across the state to discuss building power in upcoming negotiations.✊ us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

I am proud to say that MIT has rejected Trump's poison compact. MIT President Sally Kornbluth: "Therefore, with respect, we cannot support the proposed approach to addressing the issues facing higher education." @aaup.org @aft.org @higheredlabor.bsky.social @uaw.org links.mit.edu/nl3/N5Jy2cKq...

Trump is demanding nine colleges and universities sign a "Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education." These demands will come to all of higher ed if we don't stand together and fight back now. Tell our college and university administrations: Reject the Compact! tinyurl.com/rejectthecom...

The UC Berkeley Labor Center mourns Kent Wong, our longtime colleague and friend. A passionate champion for workers—especially immigrants—and students, Kent dedicated his life to justice. Our hearts are with our colleagues at the UCLA Labor Center.

Tracking Key Lawsuits Against the Trump Administration Higher education groups are suing the federal government at an exceptional scale to block executive orders, DEI guidance and other policy changes. Here’s the latest on the legal challenges. https://bit.ly/46VfIDV #HigherEd #EDUSky #AcademicSky

NO LOYALTY OATHS IN HIGHER ED! Trump's attacks on our universities are an attempt to consolidate power. This loyalty oath directly undermines our right to academic freedom & goes against every democratic principle our country should uphold. Please click below, sign, & share. #DefendHigherEd

Speakers include Catherine E. Lhamon, Brian Soucek, Asli Ü. Bali

Join a panel and discussion about the recent UCOP release of faculty, staff, and student names to the Dept of Ed's Office of Civil Rights. Thurs, Oct 9, 4-6pm, Maude Fife Room, 315 Wheeler Hall. Co-sponsored by @ucaft.bsky.social, @freedom2learn.bsky.social, Berkeley Faculty Association

I thought I'd put the administration's proposed "compact" with universities in context, so I wrote the blog post below. It's especially for journalists covering this story! Many details about how the compact itself works and why the administration has retreated to this strategy.

Gov. Gavin Newsom announces ‘independent review’ into UC Berkeley’s turnover of names to federal government www.dailycal.org/news/state/g... via @dailycal.bsky.social

UC’s Academic Council calls on the Office of the President & the UC Board of Regents to unequivocally reject governmental demands that compromise institutional autonomy and #academicfreedom. This is the way. #DefendHigherEd

Newsom: "If any California university signs this radical agreement, they’ll lose billions in state funding – including Cal Grants – instantly. California will not bankroll schools that sell out their students, professors, researchers, and surrender academic freedom"

@uofcalifornia.bsky.social systemwide Academic Council today: "There can be no clearer attack on academic freedom than [Trump's] attempt to dictate curricular content, research priorities, hiring decisions, & admissions standards." senate.universityofcalifornia.edu/_files/repor...

Gov. Gavin Newsom on Thursday threatened to cut billions in state funding from the University of Southern California if it complies with a Trump administration request to impose the president’s political priorities on campus. https://cal.news/42n1ESs 📸 Kirby Lee via AP

“This is extortion, plain and simple. It is not hyperbole to say that the future of higher education.. requires that every university reject it…The only solution is solidarity and collective action against this effort at federal control over higher education.” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/o...