This Wednesday, contracts for 20,000 nurses at 12 NYC hospitals expire. NYSNA members have authorized a strike. If they decide to strike, let's be ready to support. To learn how, join the NYC-DSA Labor Working Group call tonight: 👉 actionnetwork.org/events/nurse...

Over 97% of NYC private-sector nurses voted to authorize a strike, not because they want to, but because hospitals won’t commit to safe staffing. Stand with NYC nurses fighting for fair contracts and safe patient care for every New Yorker. Sign the pledge: www.nursescareforny.org

whether or not you can make the 4:00pm rally—and even if you have no direct connection to The New School at all!—you can still offer support and lend your name to this petition, organized by a coalition of faculty, staff, and students. ❤️ link below/share freely: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

As we bargain for a new contract, Columbia has unilaterally held our health fund hostage. It's a lifeline for our members, especially those of us who are disabled or live with chronic illnesses. Admin wanted us to capitulate. We mobilized instead. This Monday, we won it back.

TODAY! 4PM! CUT THE CUTS Rally at The New School! • SUSPEND “realignment” measures • RESCIND all “voluntary separation package agreements” • CAP on salaries over $200,000 • CALL on the Board of Trustees to hold a public meeting with the entire university community Livestream link below.

The extreme, ideologically-driven, fast, furious, economically reckless decisions being made by New School president & provost are NOT the simple consequence of economic need. they're a malicious disaster and must be stopped... an assault on critical thought.

... why did the New School president last month turn down $4mill+ from trustees & donors to fund PhDs and stop the 'pause' if this is just about money? admin has made clear, they want to reshape The New School and kill its progressive, critical thought legacy

Workers at The Met are trying to unionize, citing “long-term pay inequities, lack of job protection, and ever-increasing workloads.” If they succeed, their union would be one of the largest museum unions in the US.

“If you have an opportunity to stand up and you can do it with a greater degree of safety than a lot of your colleagues do or can, then you have an obligation to. Everyone has an obligation to do what they can.” @uawregion6.bsky.social | @uaw4811.bsky.social edsource.org/2025/uaw-481...

As you’re preparing for your Thanksgiving meal, remember the skilled work it took to get that food to your grocery store. Tell us your favorite Thanksgiving dish, and we can share some of what we know about the work behind the ingredients.

ICYMI: Staff of The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, NY, Petition NLRB for a Union Vote uaw.org/staff-of-the...

“After one full year of negotiations, Penn administrators have failed to agree to a contract that includes fair wages, improved benefits, and strong support for international workers." ow.ly/whj050XxuqI

NYC 🌆 Protest at Rockstar’s NY offices next Friday, Dec 5th with us! We will be there with organizers across the industry — let’s make the fight against their illegal union-busting international ✊ 🗓️ Friday, December 5th ⏰ 5PM onwards 📍 622 Broadway, New York, NY 10012

“Disciplining union members for protected, concerted activity reveals just how far Columbia University leadership has fallen, prioritizing political submission to the Trump agenda over fair treatment & rights of their own employees.” — Todd Wolfson, AAUP President

BREAKING: Dozens of Starbucks baristas & hundreds of allies are demonstrating at Starbucks’ largest regional distribution center in the country in York, PA. Workers are escalating their ULP strike RIGHT NOW to shine a light on how Starbucks is failing partners at every level.

"As of now, our union, Starbucks Workers United, has the facility under a full blockade." Starbucks worker Silvia lays out the ULP strike escalation at Starbucks' York regional distribution center #NoContractNoCoffee

Join the first ever demonstration cosponsored by a coalition of on-campus and community orgs to protest Columbia’s recent policies: ENOUGH IS ENOUGH! We demand: No more arbitrary rule changes, reopen the gates, and stop the surveillance! Thur Nov 20 @ noon. Sundial & Bway gate

"We know the University would collapse without you. You’re the ones making sure homework is graded and uploaded, preventing panicked students from descending into a total crashout." Thank you Spectrum 🥹💗 www.columbiaspectator.com/spectrum/202...

"After half a decade of organizing, nearly 1,000 workers at the Metropolitan Museum of Art told mgmt that they want a chance to form a union." Someone's been reading their McAlevey: "We didn't want to petition before we were sure we had a supermajority of support" ✊ hellgatenyc.com/met-union-nl...

As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history. Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX

I'm one of the four fired employees. I was a writer & producer at Bon Appétit for nearly five years, during which I helped organize our union and sat on our bargaining committee. I am, to my knowledge, the only trans woman in our union and the only trans woman on editorial who doesn't work at Them

Four union media workers were fired, in violation of their rights at work—that is a canary for all of us in this business. If we lose power at work, trust me it’s not any easier to hold anyone with political power to account.

🚨 New @therealnews.com: I speak w/ a panel of grad student workers & union members from Columbia University & the University of Michigan about the chilling new reality on their campuses & what it’s like to live, learn, & work there today @swcolumbia.bsky.social therealnews.com/campus-life-...

Columbia will whine and moan about being under the boot of the Trump regime but gleefully seek their aid in SUPPRESSING UNION LABOR

Columbia surveilled and threatened our members, who picketed and successfully forced Columbia to the bargaining table. The University’s union busting will not stop our members from engaging in NLRA-protected activity. Read our press release here: docs.google.com/document/d/e... #labor #highered

UAW sues the Trump admin for surveilling members. This is what a UNION can do for you 🔥

We forced Columbia to the table. After we marched on the boss, picketed, tabled, and stood up against Public Safety’s attempts to stop our organizing, CU caved. On Nov 7th we will face Columbia in a 170-person capacity room in Interchurch Center! RSVP: tinyurl.com/11-7-bargain...

@sbworkersunited.org members are electing strike captains and getting customers to pledge not to cross picket lines. They’re amassing in front of stores with signs, borrowing a slogan from UPS Teamsters: “Just Practicing for a Just Contract.” labornotes.org/2025/10/stri...

October 21 is #Columbiagivingday. Instead of picking up the bill for CU’s corruption, donate to the Student Worker Aid Collective, an independent mutual aid fund run by workers. opencollective.com/student-work...

Former Columbia Provost Jonathan Cole asks the university to bravely admit where it was wrong: www.columbiaspectator.com/opinion/2025...

While marching to deliver our demands we discovered that CU had lied -- again. The large conferences rooms that would accomodate all our colleagues who want to see the union bargain on their behalf were empty. CU had insisted that the rooms were "not available" to hide from our members.

After marching on the boss to deliver our demands, Columbia gave us the 3% raises they had been withholding. Of course, we are fighting for so much more. Read more about Columbia’s refusal to bargain with us here: www.studentworkersofcolumbia.com/updates/oct-...

"The unfortunate reality is that graduate workers have to defend ourselves not only from Trump, but also from administrators, who would rather cut education and research than reconsider executive bloat."

Yet again, Columbia University refused to bargain with its student workers. Yesterday we caucused together at Trinity Lutheran Church, while the University bargaining team sat in their small room afraid to face us.

Eager to undermine the bargaining process, the university has now graciously announced a “raise” in stipends that amounts to… a 0.1% increase after inflation

Columbia canceled bargaining, again. We are still gathering at Trinity Lutheran Church on Monday. Our demands are commonsense: protection for non-citizens, no cops or surveillance on campus, and fast resolution for contract violations. Columbia, will you meet us?

⬇️ NEWS: “This is a historic ruling that should have immediate implications for the Trump administration’s policies. If the First Amendment means anything, it means the government can’t imprison people simply because it disagrees with their political views." knightcolumbia.org/content/in-l...

Mohsen Mahdawi and Mahmoud Khalil outside Columbia’s (locked) gates on the eve of their possible deportation

In July, the “National Right to Work Foundation” filed a ULP against the Cornell Graduate Student Union. In September, it filed a nuisance ULP against the Student Workers of Columbia. Why is this right-wing org so obsessed with us? 🤔

The Columbia administration's capitulation to the Trump regime has facilitated its deplorable union busting. Support @swcolumbia.bsky.social in its fight against the university's unfair labor practices.

"Candidates have abandoned their research plans, accepted jobs at other institutions, or in one case, may leave the country entirely—potentially cutting short an academic career in the United States." www.columbiaspectator.com/news/2025/09...

I'd say in the exceptionally intense competition for the elite university that has been the most obeisant to Trump's agenda, Columbia University takes first place. Not content to destroy academic freedom, it goes after workers' rights. Kudos to @swcolumbia.bsky.social for standing up!

union busting is disgusting

“Although I’ve been suspended for at least two years, I don’t regret risking my career in support of the Palestinian resistance.” Jessie Lee Rubin, a (suspended) PhD candidate at Columbia University, explains how free speech in the US comes with a “Palestine exception.”

📰PRESS RELEASE: Columbia University Begins School Year by Filing an NLRB Charge that Risks Student Workers’ Right to Unionize Nationwide Read more: docs.google.com/document/d/e...

Happy first day of the semester! It’s a great day to demand accountability from Columbia - a multi-billion corporation that caved to Trump, slashed union jobs, and broke promises to our neighbors time and again. Rally at 11am and practice picket at 1pm - let’s go! ☀️😍

Happy labor day! Start the academic year by celebrating people power 💪 Tomorrow at Broadway & 116 St gate of Morningside campus: 🎙️10am AAUP press conference 📢11am “Open the Gates” rally w/ Morningside neighbors 🪧1pm SWC practice picket

Last-minute adjunct positions at Columbia replace union labor and undermines the fight for decent working conditions in higher ed nationwide. Join the fight and do not scab!

Professors stand with student workers as Columbia slashes jobs to union bust Prof @anneliseorleck1.bsky.social at Darthmouth: “Unionization is essential to ensure decent wages, course load and job security. What Columbia is doing is immoral and illegal." 1/5

Taking adjunct gigs at Columbia undermines the grad union @swcolumbia.bsky.social, so turn them down in solidarity.