We filed an Unfair Labor Practice against the UC to vindicate faculty rights to protest, organize, and exercise academic freedom. Come to the #UAW rally at Murphy Hall today, 3pm, to hear us talk about it.
"The strikers are demanding amnesty for grad students and other academic workers who were arrested or face discipline for their involvement in the protests, which union leaders say were peaceful except when counter-demonstrators and other instigators were allowed to provoke unrest"
Oh Lord "'lack of an effective communication strategy" both internally within membership and externally, as well as a lack of empowering rank and file to do hand to hand organizing without being overseen and directed by leadership is absolutely my experience with the #UAW https://portside.org/2024-05-26/learning-right-lessons-uaw-loss-alabama
UAW’s recent loss at a plant in Alabama shows how difficult labor organizing in the South can be – especially against the established anti-union politics, and the “union avoidance playbook” that automotive executives have developed over 40 years