FSPM launched a Global House Keeping campaign in Labuan Bajo highlighting the skill and value of housekeepers with a bed-making competition. Unreasonable room quotas harm workers. Super-premium tourism needs super-premium conditions! #OurUnionOurPower #OrganizeFightWin #MakeMyWorkplaceSafe
"Sectoral bargaining would empower contingent faculty-individuals who occupy an especially precarious & weak position in the university hierarchy when speaking alone-to band together and even bargain for what the @csuaaup.bsky.social calls the 'Contingent Faculty Bill of Rights.'” #OrganizeFightWin
Building the power to #DefendHigherEd; local #union & chapter activists came away from our nat'l @afthighered.bsky.social & @aaup.org #2025SummerInstitute equipped to meet the moment: aftct.org/2025/09/23/l... #OrganizeFightWin @aft.org @aftacademics.bsky.social @higheredlabor.bsky.social
Keep em coming!
Higher Education Saves Lives!
Stand Up! Get Loud! Resist!
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#DefendHigherEd
#LaborDay
Training to #OrganizeFightWin; activists joined #HigherEd colleagues from across US at joint @afthighered.bsky.social & @aaup.org #2025SummerInstitute. #DefendHigherEd @aft.org @aftacademics.bsky.social @csuaaup.bsky.social @higheredlabor.bsky.social @csuaaup.bsky.social @uconnaaup.bsky.social
Deep respect & appreciation to the mighty Spelman chapter of the AAUP for graciously hosting the 2025 AAUP/AFT Summer Institute this weekend!!!
Together, we are laying the foundations to build a strong national movement in defense of higher education.
#organizefightwin
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@aaup.org & @aft.org's Summer Institute was such an inspirational training workshop!
Proud to have presented there on "How Your Advocacy Chapter Can Act Like a Union."
Want to know how to do that?
Get in touch for resources & to get connected w/ an organizer!
We gonna #OrganizeFightWin!
UAM-UMD's @karinrosemblatt.bsky.social, Katherine Wasdin, & @mtmiller.bsky.social repping UAM-UMD @aaup.org & @aft.org's Summer Institute at Morehouse College in Atlanta this past weekend.
Learned so much! Ready to come back to UMD & MD and win our union this year!
#OrganizeFightWin
Picture of some of 6741's leadership team spoke at @aaupnational & @aftunion's Summer Institute at Morehouse College in Atlanta this past weekend.
Some of 6741's leadership team spoke at @aaup.org & @aft.org Summer Institute at Morehouse College in Atlanta this past weekend. When we organize and fight, we win! Reach out if you want help organizing! We are here to help. #OrganizeFightWin
This is a crucial time for organizing at Historically Black colleges and universities.
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#defendhighered
Our past president speaking about the AAUP/AFT Summer Institute in this time of national attacks on higher ed
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What’s next in our struggle to #DefendHigherEd; nat’l @aaup.org VP, @csuaaup.bsky.social leader Rotua Lumbantobing shares aspirations following successful #2025SummerInstitute. #OrganizeFightWin @aft.org @afthighered.bsky.social @aftacademics.bsky.social @higheredlabor.bsky.social
grateful to be in this fight with fellow @uconnaaup.bsky.social officer Oskar Harmon. As chapter treasurer, he signs the checks; as your fellow union member, he speaks truth to power. #organizefightwin
Top take away from the AAUP/AFT 2025 Summer Institute?
Inspiration & Energy.
— Donna Murch, Professor of African American History at @rutgersupress.bsky.social & member of the AAUP Governing Council.
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Academic freedom is a fundamental job condition in higher education and prerequisite for a functioning democracy.
#defendhighered
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Glad you’re here.
Solidarity!
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At the AAUP/AFT 2025 Summer Institute, we are developing the tools we need to help build a movement to truly realize our vision for higher education & democracy.
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Hell yeah! We are at @aaup.org Summer Institute to #OrganizeFightWin with co-sponsors @aft.org @afthighered.bsky.social!
I spent the afternoon with higher education union leaders from across the country. We had an incredible panel on how to stop democracy from backsliding. We discussed how to build coalitions and what history shows about fighting fascism. #OrganizeFightWin
Proud to be repping @uam-umd.bsky.social and @local6741.bsky.social at @aaup.org Summer Institute!
#OrganizeFightWin!
#organizefightwin Connecticut’s own labor movement legend Matt O’Connor @aftct.bsky.social taking AAUP professors to SCHOOL w the power of comms in campaign wins
Pres Randi Weingarten #AFT Keynote at @aaup.org Summer Institute commits half a million new dollars to @afthighered.bsky.social #organizefightwin
Very important conversations are happening and even more importantly, we are moving these conversations to direct action! #organizefightwin #aaupaft2025summerinstatute
Uniting #HigherEd professionals to #OrganizeFightWin; activists from @aaup.org & @aft.org across US tapping collective power & building #solidarity at #2025SummerInstitute. #DefendHigherEd @afthighered.bsky.social @aftacademics.bsky.social @csuaaup.bsky.social @higheredlabor.bsky.social
Dr. Pranav Jani of the mighty AAUP Ohio State chapter (@osuaaup.bsky.social) on why he came to AAUP/AFT’s Summer Institute & why we must #OrganizeFightWin in the face of this unprecedented assault on American higher education.
#DefendHigherEd
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At the @aaup.org Summer Institute this morning I learned the word "millage": a way to refer to a property tax, which can be expressed as a percentage or per mille.
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“We have taken a progressive stand on opposing the genocide in Gaza. It draws membership, people care! Struggles for academic freedom are related to Palestine. It’s our job to protect those speaking about Palestine.”
—Amy Hagopian, AAUP-AFT United Academics Local 6741
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“Advocacy chapters can act like unions! We need to act like fighting, organized unions.”
“United faculty for the common good!”
— Leadership of AAUP-AFT United Academics Local 6741, Summer Institute 2025, #OrganizeFightWin
Learning so much at my first AAUP summer institute. #organizefightwin
Group shot of attendees at the AAUP-AFT Summer Institute, in the African American Hall of Hame in the Martin Luther King Jr. International Chapel on Morehouse College.
Everyone is committed to #OrganizeFightWin and to defend higher education on our campuses!
@aft.org @afthighered.bsky.social
