Badass UFF UF membership volunteers out under UF trees.

More fabulous UFF membership and affiliate organization volunteers in front of Library West.

A terrific gathering of UFF UF union and affiliate member volunteers outside on campus about to knock on doors.

Who’s union?!?? Our union.

Welcome new members and thanks to our volunteers and affiliate volunteers! 🥾

Come join us at Cypress and Grove this evening Thursday 4/2 4:30-7 ish!!

Big blitz week! New members, welcome!!

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Mark your calendar, UF faculty members new & old. The chapter election meeting will be held on Friday 10 April at United Church of Gainesville (1624 NW 5th Ave, 4-6 pm. Check your off- campus UFF email for election info and details! 🗳️

Big week. Our largest membership drive is in process and next Friday, we will be holding elections. If you have been waiting to join, reach out. Get your concerns addressed and questions answered. Delay diverts resources of colleague volunteers. Help us help you - we are stronger together.

They Tried to Silence Us—It Won’t Happen | No Kings Speech on Academic Freedom at Texas A&M YouTube video by The Bright Professor

❤️✊ Dr. Leonard Bright, prof at Texas A&M and president of the campus AAUP chapter, delivers a powerful speech at the No Kings rally yesterday on academic freedom, censorship, and the future of higher education. #FreedomtoLearn #FreedomtoTeach

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NIH grant terminations affected women scientists more than men, study finds A new paper shows that women, particularly those early in their careers, have been disproportionately affected by NIH grant terminations.

When I retired only around 25% of Full Professors in STEM were women. I was proud be one of them, and to support the success of fellow women in STEM through mentoring.

This was not an organic process. It took hard work and persistence.

And now The Regime is setting us back decades.

And now for some excellent news! Yet another example of the power behind UF faculty’s Collective Bargaining Agreement.

Share this victory! 🔁

We are stronger together!

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Emotional faculty meeting, highlighting legislation that is likely to bring down our union. Because of @superhh.bsky.social and other colleagues, I had the parental leave I needed to spend hours in the NICU every day when my son was born. This supported his health and mine. @uffuf.bsky.social

We can’t stress enough how urgent it is for faculty at UF and across the FL public sector to support your public employee’s union.

Your CBA and bargaining power can disappear in a flash with this terrible — and likely illegal — bill….

🚨Anyone opposed to efforts to eliminate most public sector unions in FL by adding unconstitutional & costly hurdles to membership & recertification, please call rep below.

Act before Thursday! ⏰

Contacts, info, & advice on telling your senator YOUR story here:

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The measure was pushed by the Freedom Foundation, an extremist think tank funded by billionaires. In an interview with CBS Miami, the southern director for the Freedom Foundation, Rusty Brown, took credit for writing the bill.

SB1296 solves no problems: It CREATES a crises for working people.

FL SB 1296 creates 2 distinct classes of public employees: one with substantially less right to freely associate & collectively bargain than the other. Both rights are guaranteed by our state constitution! Lobbyists admitted their core intention is to eliminate public unions.👇

Have you made a phone call to your FL state senator TODAY to oppose SB 1296?

If not: take 2 minutes time to 📞 your representative. Republican and Democrat senators are working together to defeat this bill & need to hear loud & clear: stand with public employees. No on 1296!

🚨UFF supporters & Floridians who support state public unions:

BAD NEWS. Public union-busting SB 1296 just passed final committee on a 10-8 vote.

Dial the pressure UP on a bill that will decertify our unions. Join Tuesday’s power hour @5:30 EST & scroll below.

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Opinion: Take your feet off our necks Against my better judgment to not put sensitive information in writing — the greatest, yet-to-be-censored lesson the regents still ought to learn — I’m confessing my feelings: I’m exhausted. The regents have officially graduated from demoting deans, botching a professor hiring and firing lecturers to eliminating our Women’s and Gender Studies program. Care to guess...

"We’re all bearing witness to the institutionalization of intellectual violence at a university that should be free from aggressive political interference."

AAUP members are rejecting the Commission for Public Higher Education accreditation standards, which threatens to introduce unprecedented partisan influence over universities.

Check out this thread and graphics explaining what is at stake nationally, especially at southern universities⬇️

Important!

We can’t stress enough how urgent it is for eligible faculty at UF and across the FL public sector to support your public employee’s union.

Your CBA and bargaining power can disappear in a flash with this terrible — and likely illegal — bill….

🚨 A bill drafted by Freedom Works designed to force union decertification is rapidly advancing. To learn more about SB 1296 and STOP this union-busting bill, click the link below.

Members, watch for urgent legislative alerts sent to your UFF email.

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Mark your calendars!

💌 LOVE YOUR UNION SOCIAL ♥️ Friday the 13th (2/13)
🕓 4-7 PM
🍺 🎟️ 📍 Cypress & Grove - 1001 NW 4th St

No bad luck here - just union love.

Come celebrate getting through the recertification election with us and show some love for collective power ✊❤️

And as always, standing in solidarity with our other union comrades who are deep in negotiations or about to start! @lccea.bsky.social, @uffuf.bsky.social, @uaw4811.bsky.social & more!

Minneapolis Lessons for Higher Education By Michael Meranze It is too soon to tell what will be the long term impact of the federal invasion of Minneapolis.  But it is clear that th...

Solidarity. Truth telling. Leadership.

Michael Meranze on Minneapolis lessons for higher education:

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UF’s ICE partnership betrays its own mission - The Independent Florida Alligator The University Police Department states its mission is "to preserve a safe, secure campus environment where diverse social, cultural and academic values are allowed to develop and prosper." But UF's c...

“Rather than fostering a safe, inclusive learning environment, the 287(g) agreement creates fear and distrust. The agreement neither improves law enforcement nor enhances campus safety.”

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Infographic on Public Employee Relations commission requirements that unions without 60% density must go through a timely and costly recertification vote each year or entirely lose their public union and collective bargaining agreements/protections. Return the ballot from PERC mailed to your home address.

Mail your PERC ballots back to PERC, UF faculty. The deadline is early next week so mail TODAY. Why does this matter & what can we do about it?

UF faculty! Eligible faculty (those represented by UFF regardless of membership status) were mailed a ballot from FL Public Employees Relations Commission this week. It’s VERY important to open, vote, stamp, sign & return this. Why should you vote YES & 📪 ? ⬇️

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When Robert P. George Was Offered the U. of Florida Presidency A new <i>Chronicle</i> investigation of Mori Hosseini, long the most powerful person at the red-state flagship, revealed a key moment in a Republican power struggle.

UF’s Presidential Search Advisory Committee just announced listening sessions & links so campus stakeholders can guide & participate in the search process.

Meanwhile the CHE & @GarrettShanley report that Gov. DeSantis already flew to NJ & offered RP George the UF presidency.

Whose input counts?

A view of the Caryatids of the Erechtheion on the Acropolis in Athens, Greece.

NEH Pours Millions Into Conservative-Aligned Projects

The Trump-overhauled National Endowment for the Humanities announced $75.1 million in grants. Western civilization, great books and other subjects conservatives support won big. https://bit.ly/4q7vWSl

How else can I help besides mailing back this PERC ballot? The 2023 union-busting bill demands that we repeat this costly, time-consuming ritual annually until we reach 60% membership density. So you can help most by helping in-unit colleagues to JOIN UFF.

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Tens of thousands of workers in Florida have just lost their labor unions. More is coming A WLRN investigation begins to reveal the scope of SB 256, a sweeping anti-union labor law passed in 2023. What is emerging is an outright crisis for teachers and other public sector workers. “The wor...

A reminder of WHY this is happening: recent state laws want to nullify collective bargaining & decertify public unions statewide. So this process is by state design.

BUT we will NOT let the state rob UF faculty of a right enshrined in our state constitution. Keep watch for the ballot shown above!

What’s at stake? A majority yes vote means UFF retains the legal right to represent UF faculty for 12 more mos.

Otherwise UFF-UF will be decertified, UF faculty’s entire Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) will cease to exist, & UF faculty will no longer have a union or a collective voice.