Graduate Labor Org
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Union of graduate student workers at Brown University ✊🏿✊🏽✊🏻
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The Rhode Island Federation of Teachers and Health Professionals
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| Local 6516
@aftunion.bsky.social
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The Rhode Island Federation of Teachers and Health Professionals
glounion.org
A big thank you to everyone for a year of solidarity. Our work is just getting started!
May 30, 2025 at 6:26 PM
A big thank you to everyone for a year of solidarity. Our work is just getting started!
Earlier this semester, GLO members turned out to the state house to support Bills H5187/S124. Today, we're asking you to express your support once again.
Send a letter to your state rep and help us enshrine graduate workers' labor rights in Rhode Island state law: actionnetwork.org/letters/supp...
Send a letter to your state rep and help us enshrine graduate workers' labor rights in Rhode Island state law: actionnetwork.org/letters/supp...
May 5, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Earlier this semester, GLO members turned out to the state house to support Bills H5187/S124. Today, we're asking you to express your support once again.
Send a letter to your state rep and help us enshrine graduate workers' labor rights in Rhode Island state law: actionnetwork.org/letters/supp...
Send a letter to your state rep and help us enshrine graduate workers' labor rights in Rhode Island state law: actionnetwork.org/letters/supp...
Union roundup: postdocs and medical residents and dining services workers and community coordinators and grad workers and undergrad workers and library workers (and more!)
www.browndailyherald.com/article/2025...
www.browndailyherald.com/article/2025...
For Brown’s labor unions, a year marked by bargaining, activism, first contracts
Computer science TAs, community coordinators, shuttle drivers and dining workers reached contract agreements with Brown this year.
www.browndailyherald.com
April 28, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Union roundup: postdocs and medical residents and dining services workers and community coordinators and grad workers and undergrad workers and library workers (and more!)
www.browndailyherald.com/article/2025...
www.browndailyherald.com/article/2025...
Always thankful for our strong contract. We fought for protections for grads who aren't US citizens last bargaining cycle and those protections have never been more important. Our employer has major leverage and it's up to us to force them to use it
www.browndailyherald.com/article/2025...
www.browndailyherald.com/article/2025...
Amid threats to student visas, graduate students’ labor contract takes on new relevance
Serving the Brown University community since 1891
www.browndailyherald.com
April 18, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Always thankful for our strong contract. We fought for protections for grads who aren't US citizens last bargaining cycle and those protections have never been more important. Our employer has major leverage and it's up to us to force them to use it
www.browndailyherald.com/article/2025...
www.browndailyherald.com/article/2025...
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Our union sister, Rümeysa Öztürk, has been detained by ICE for exercising her right to free speech. Please consider contributing to or sharing this fundraiser organized by Rümeysa's immigration court legal team:
Justice for Rümeysa Öztürk
Dear Friends, Allies, and Supporters,
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April 16, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Our union sister, Rümeysa Öztürk, has been detained by ICE for exercising her right to free speech. Please consider contributing to or sharing this fundraiser organized by Rümeysa's immigration court legal team:
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"As the disruption has mounted, many college and university presidents have kept silent. But unions representing higher ed employees have stepped up to the plate." Read more from HELU and @aaup.bsky.social leaders; maybe even feel a little hope: www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...
As Universities Yield to Trump, Higher Ed Unions Fight Back
From lawsuits to protests, labor organizations representing faculty, grad students and other workers are resisting. Discussions about what to do next continue.
www.insidehighered.com
April 4, 2025 at 5:05 PM
"As the disruption has mounted, many college and university presidents have kept silent. But unions representing higher ed employees have stepped up to the plate." Read more from HELU and @aaup.bsky.social leaders; maybe even feel a little hope: www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...
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U of Washington Research Coordinators, Consultants Unionize
U of Washington Research Coordinators, Consultants Unionize
More than 700 University of Washington research coordinators and consultants have unionized, joining already organized research scientists and engineers there to create a bargaining unit more than 2,0...
www.insidehighered.com
April 2, 2025 at 12:50 PM
U of Washington Research Coordinators, Consultants Unionize
Don’t be fooled by Brown’s legalese: the university will not protect you. From NYC to Somerville to Tuscaloosa, ICE agents have kidnapped doctoral researchers, and admins refuse to fight back.
Sign our petition to demand a safe workplace for all community members: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Sign our petition to demand a safe workplace for all community members: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
April 2, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Don’t be fooled by Brown’s legalese: the university will not protect you. From NYC to Somerville to Tuscaloosa, ICE agents have kidnapped doctoral researchers, and admins refuse to fight back.
Sign our petition to demand a safe workplace for all community members: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Sign our petition to demand a safe workplace for all community members: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
GMM Alert! Members, join us at the office (5 Steeple St) this Wednesday at 7 pm to discuss urgent business. Key topics: how to protect our colleagues, staying safe amidst a federal crackdown, and updates to our constitution
March 30, 2025 at 8:24 PM
GMM Alert! Members, join us at the office (5 Steeple St) this Wednesday at 7 pm to discuss urgent business. Key topics: how to protect our colleagues, staying safe amidst a federal crackdown, and updates to our constitution
New op-ed from our president, Michael Ziegler:
"If Brown’s administration is truly committed to the value of free expression, it must do everything in its power to ensure community members are not silenced."
www.browndailyherald.com/article/2025...
"If Brown’s administration is truly committed to the value of free expression, it must do everything in its power to ensure community members are not silenced."
www.browndailyherald.com/article/2025...
www.browndailyherald.com
March 19, 2025 at 4:01 PM
New op-ed from our president, Michael Ziegler:
"If Brown’s administration is truly committed to the value of free expression, it must do everything in its power to ensure community members are not silenced."
www.browndailyherald.com/article/2025...
"If Brown’s administration is truly committed to the value of free expression, it must do everything in its power to ensure community members are not silenced."
www.browndailyherald.com/article/2025...
Proud to stand in solidarity with our union siblings, Brown Postdoc Labor Organization. BPLO has been bargaining since last May (!) and the University still won't commit to a fair pay increase.
www.browndailyherald.com/article/2025...
www.browndailyherald.com/article/2025...
Campus unions, labor activists protest in support of postdocs, library workers
Around 100 attended the rally, which coincided with a bargaining session between postdocs and Brown.
www.browndailyherald.com
March 12, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Proud to stand in solidarity with our union siblings, Brown Postdoc Labor Organization. BPLO has been bargaining since last May (!) and the University still won't commit to a fair pay increase.
www.browndailyherald.com/article/2025...
www.browndailyherald.com/article/2025...
Collective action has never been more important. When the bosses and the professoriate are too scared to fight, we have to stand up for each other.
March 12, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Collective action has never been more important. When the bosses and the professoriate are too scared to fight, we have to stand up for each other.
Absolute nightmare scenario for some of the most important research in the country
This isn't going to get the attention of Columbia, but it's at least as bad: the University of Maine is having its funding cut off because the governor of Maine dared to challenge Trump.
I'm appalled by the USDA's decision to pause funding to the University of Maine System.
This will hurt our farmers, halt critical research, and impact students throughout Maine.
Once again, our state is being targeted for retribution—all because our officials are standing up for the rule of law.
This will hurt our farmers, halt critical research, and impact students throughout Maine.
Once again, our state is being targeted for retribution—all because our officials are standing up for the rule of law.
March 12, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Absolute nightmare scenario for some of the most important research in the country
As the most vulnerable in our communities are under attack, grads at Brown demand that the University protects us and all workers, students, and community members. Sign the petition and please share with your colleagues: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
March 12, 2025 at 4:09 PM
As the most vulnerable in our communities are under attack, grads at Brown demand that the University protects us and all workers, students, and community members. Sign the petition and please share with your colleagues: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
GLO's very own Michael Ziegler is in the Herald today with some rightful pushback on admin's austerity. Our bosses live in literal mansions while they us to do more with less. Democratic control of the workplace is the only way forward.
www.browndailyherald.com/article/2025...
www.browndailyherald.com/article/2025...
Ziegler GS: In ‘tough waters,’ Brown needs a better team at the helm
Serving the Brown community since 1891
www.browndailyherald.com
February 27, 2025 at 2:15 PM
GLO's very own Michael Ziegler is in the Herald today with some rightful pushback on admin's austerity. Our bosses live in literal mansions while they us to do more with less. Democratic control of the workplace is the only way forward.
www.browndailyherald.com/article/2025...
www.browndailyherald.com/article/2025...
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I’d rather be in a lab right now. But we’re here because the NIH grants that fund our research have been cut. RFK Jr. says he wants to make America healthy again - but how does he want to do that without our research?! - Annika Barber, @ruaaup-aft.bsky.social
February 25, 2025 at 7:24 PM
I’d rather be in a lab right now. But we’re here because the NIH grants that fund our research have been cut. RFK Jr. says he wants to make America healthy again - but how does he want to do that without our research?! - Annika Barber, @ruaaup-aft.bsky.social
An underrated part of organizing is that you make all sorts of new friends
and don't forget SOCIALIZE TO ORGANIZE
party to meet your neighbors, flex your joy muscles, be in community
party to meet your neighbors, flex your joy muscles, be in community
February 24, 2025 at 10:56 PM
An underrated part of organizing is that you make all sorts of new friends
We're proud to support House Bill 5187, which will
amend Rhode Island's Labor Relations Act to enshrine our right to organize and collectively bargain as graduate workers. Now is the time to stand up for labor ✊🏿✊🏽✊🏻
@aftunion.bsky.social
amend Rhode Island's Labor Relations Act to enshrine our right to organize and collectively bargain as graduate workers. Now is the time to stand up for labor ✊🏿✊🏽✊🏻
@aftunion.bsky.social
February 24, 2025 at 7:10 PM
We're proud to support House Bill 5187, which will
amend Rhode Island's Labor Relations Act to enshrine our right to organize and collectively bargain as graduate workers. Now is the time to stand up for labor ✊🏿✊🏽✊🏻
@aftunion.bsky.social
amend Rhode Island's Labor Relations Act to enshrine our right to organize and collectively bargain as graduate workers. Now is the time to stand up for labor ✊🏿✊🏽✊🏻
@aftunion.bsky.social
Cue the slippery slope of administrators: we don't have grads to teach and conduct research, we're not hiring more faculty, we're teaching fewer classes, so we're just going to shut this whole department down
February 23, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Cue the slippery slope of administrators: we don't have grads to teach and conduct research, we're not hiring more faculty, we're teaching fewer classes, so we're just going to shut this whole department down
Even the wealthiest institutions are not exempt from austerity. Organizing has never been more urgent
It is an extremely challenging time for higher ed, and I don't envy institutional leaders at this moment, but I am nonetheless deeply disappointed by this decision & the lack of communication to faculty about why it was made: www.thedp.com/article/2025...
Penn to reduce graduate admissions, rescind acceptances amid federal research funding cuts
Penn notified department chairs that it will cut admissions across graduate programs — a decision faculty members say will force them to rescind offers from newly-accepted students.
www.thedp.com
February 22, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Even the wealthiest institutions are not exempt from austerity. Organizing has never been more urgent