United Academics of Chicago

Good to see adjunct faculty getting attention!

"Even in a good economy, these academics cobble together a living teaching courses that pay around $5,000 each, working on short-term contracts that they hope will renew each year — often without benefits."

Raise your hand if you're contingent faculty and make less than $5,000 per course ✋ Unfortunately, we hear from folks all the time who are making closer to $3,000, and as low as $1,500 per course 😡

In higher education, the pandemic has been especially cruel to adjunct professors - The Boston Globe The coronavirus has thrown the higher education industry into uncertainty, but it’s been especially cruel to the thousands of part-time professors undergirding New England’s colleges and universities.

Monday, June 29th, at 5pm CT / 6pm ET, AFT Academics and the Emerging Scholars Organization will be coming together to present an open to the public Union Organizing 101 workshop. Join us! RSVP: http://bit.ly/AFTAevents

How can we fight COVID capitalism with Naomi Klein Wed. May 6, 2020 Professor Naomi Klein is joined us for a discussion on the potential for cataclysmic change in the aftermath of disasters, and the potential...

via AFT Academics - Folks across the US are joining AFT Academics, developing organizing plans for their campuses, getting trained as organizers, receiving step by step guidance from experienced union organizers, and building power in their workplaces. Join now to start organizing next semester! https://aftacademics.org

Folks across the US are joining AFT Academics, developing organizing plans for their campuses, getting trained as organizers, receiving step by step guidance from experienced union organizers, and building power in their workplaces. Join now to start organizing next semester! https://aftacademics.org

GEO at auIUC are now in week two of their strike for a fair contract. What is at stake? Tuition waivers for graduate workers! They are now occupying the University presidents office and vow to stay until the administration comes to the table and negotiates in good faith. You can help by sharing this post, calling the UIUC Provost and contributing to their strike fund.

ATTENTION: Members of the CFA and GEO are currently occupying President Killeen's office in the Henry Administration Building. They will occupy the building until we get a fair contract.

"The AFT has a long track record of helping create member-driven unions at universities across the country, and I look forward to seeing what a partnership between NUGW and the AFT will bring to the unionization effort at Northwestern.”

Northwestern University Grad Workers Affiliate with AFT, Joining Union Peers Across the Country EVANSTON, Ill.—Graduate employees at Northwestern University have joined their Prairie State peers at the University of Chicago by affiliating with the American Federation of Teachers, as the national movement for graduate workers’ unionization takes off.

Woman's Success Story Proves Student Unions Have Power To Fight Sexual Assault An unexpected outcome of forming a union.