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Oh, and while you’re here: sign our petition too! bit.ly/3Dz5pGO
And not just recent pleas, but ones made during the first few months of @ProfessorJVH’s time at WMU. @PIOatWMU @WMUAAUP
Happy world teachers day😊 The world keeps spinning with the magic of teachers. Please celebrate a teacher today🙏
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Happy Labor Day from America's labor movement!
Today we celebrate how far we've come. Tomorrow we keep demanding better.
#ItsBetterInAUnion
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BREAKING: Grad Workers Vote for Tentative Agreement (TA) with U-M
Winning a living wage for most PhD students and major gains in harassment protections, police abolition, and parent & transgender grad care, the TA is a testament to the power of our strike.
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well. @UMich has officially docked all pay but $100 for april from its grad workers, putting many of us in a position of dangerous financial precarity. friends/allies, please consider donating to @geo3550 strike fund at givebutter.com/GEOStrikeFund. we need all the help we can get ✊
Proof that you *can* lead an academic institution with integrity while supporting the people that make the university run!
@WMUAAUP @PIOatWMU @WesternMichU @WesternHerald @AFTunion @geo3550 @UMich
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Looking forward to connecting with our @TAUAFT and @PIOatWMU colleagues today. When we stand together in solidarity and fight, our students win! @aftmichigan @AAUP @geo3550 @ruaaup @AFTunion @WesternMichU @afscmemichigan @ProgressMich #PhD #AcademicChatter
Good morning to everyone at @UMich EXCEPT those that are working to further promote systemic inequities and trying to break the strike.
Enjoy the sun on the line today friends 🌞😎
We will win a living wage and a fair contract.
@UMich can do the right thing now, save the costs of its failed strikebreaking attempts, and stop the ongoing disruption to the education of almost 50,000 students.
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It is **illegal** for public employees in Michigan to strike, yet a judge has just refused to issue an injunction against @geo3550's strike .
What's going on?
One of my biggest hobbyhorses is that labor folks should get the words "can" and "can't" out of their vocabulary.
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A judge has now ruled twice against the University of Michigan’s efforts to force striking graduate students back to work.
Judge Carol Kuhnke declined to issue a restraining order or grant a preliminary injunction against the 2,000 grad students of @geo3550 who are on strike.
Absolutely unacceptable and gross. Employee concerns are to be listened to, not crushed with legal action. @WMUAAUP @PIOatWMU @WesternMichU @WesternHerald @geo3550
Today in court after admitting they were only able to find a single undergrad to testify in their favor, @UMich’s lawyers compared GEO’s strike to domestic violence. Comparing striking grad workers to domestic abusers is completely reprehensible. 🧵1/4
Incredible news for our colleagues in @geo3550 and a huge win for labor more broadly! Hold the line!
Got a few minutes to spare today? Make a quick call to support our friends in @geo3550!
It’s more important now than ever that universities in Michigan, like @UMich and @WesternMichU listen to the reasonable demands of graduate workers to be treated with dignity and respect.
⚡️☎️ PHONE ZAP ☎️⚡️
Starting tomorrow (Friday) morning - call to tell Academic HR (734-763-8938) and Provost Laurie McCauley (734-764-9290) to drop the attestation forms and all strike-breaking tactics.
Call multiple times and call often. #RingRingFairContract 1/2
![Image of purple minion screaming from a handheld phone. Text reads: PHONE ZAP Fri April 7, starting 9 AM Call Academic HR and Provost McCauley [large font] Drop the attestation forms and all strike-breaking tactics. HR: (734) 763-8938 Provost Laurie McCauley Laurie's office: (734) 764-9290, Laurie's landline: Lindsey, Laurie's assistant: (734) 764-9292 Renee Reiff-Schram, admin assistant senior: (734) 615-0874 Sarah Blair: (734) 764-0475 or (734) 764-0747 James Hilton: (734) 764-7692](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FtFLOx1WwAMkMVV.jpg?name=orig)
ALT Image of purple minion screaming from a handheld phone. Text reads: PHONE ZAP Fri April 7, starting 9 AM Call Academic HR and Provost McCauley [large font] Drop the attestation forms and all strike-breaking tactics. HR: (734) 763-8938 Provost Laurie McCauley Laurie's office: (734) 764-9290, Laurie's landline: Lindsey, Laurie's assistant: (734) 764-9292 Renee Reiff-Schram, admin assistant senior: (734) 615-0874 Sarah Blair: (734) 764-0475 or (734) 764-0747 James Hilton: (734) 764-7692
The writing should be on the walls for @WesternMichU: Grad students deserve to be taken seriously and listened to, not lawyered up against. @WMUAAUP @geo3550 @wwmtnews @WesternHerald
It’s time for universities like @UMich and @WesternMichU to be responsive to faculty and grad students instead of calling on “the law” to deal with them @AAUP @geo3550 @MLive @wwmtnews @AFTHigherEd thewmuaaup.com/2023/04/05/wm…
We stand in solidarity with our colleagues in @geo3550 and call on @UMich to provide a living wage for grad employees now!!! 24k is shameful and disrespectful to its core.
With all the talk of layoffs and changes at Twitter it seems like as good a time as any to bring up that the tech industry needs more unions. They’d have a fight on their hands with their new union buster boss but we wish twitter’s workers well ✊
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October 3rd-7th, is MENTAL HEALTH WEEK!
@WMUAAUP @TAUAFT @PIOatWMU @WesternHerald @wmuk1021 @WesternMichU
ALT Flyer announcing WMU's Western Student Association's Mental Health Week. For more info https://www.facebook.com/WMUSGA/