Fordham Faculty United

The Trump administration must release people from unjust detention and return them safely to their families. #SolidaritySummer

Join the Fordham Faculty United Summer Kick-off Central Park Picnic!

All FFU members and their families and friends are welcome!

This Saturday, June 21, 1 pm to 3 pm (weather permitting) at Central Park Sheep Meadow.

You are welcome to bring provisions & a ground-cloth.

FORDHAM FACULTY UNITED BARGAINING BULLETIN Collective Bargaining Session 7: June 12, 2025 Next Bargaining Session: June 26, 1 p.m. LL South Lounge MANAGEMENT PROPOSED 3.5%, 4% and 4% raises over 3 yrs for FT and NO further INCREASES for PT COMPENSATION IS OUR PRIORITY Management aims to divide us by making us choose between FT and PT raises. Because of instability in the political and economic environments, we countered by distributing our pay increases across 3 years to achieve a liveable wage. We need to hear from you! Learn more details and ask your questions at the meeting MEMBER MEETING JUNE 16, Monday 6-7 PM on Zoom (Register via link sent by email)

FORDHAM FACULTY UNITED
BARGAINING BULLETIN
Collective Bargaining Session 7: June 12, 2025
Next Bargaining Session: June 26, 1 p.m. LL South Lounge

We need to hear from you! Learn more details and ask your questions at tonight´s members´ meeting (details sent via email)

FORDHAM FACULTY UNITED BARGAINING BULLETIN Collective Bargaining Session 7: June 5, 2025 Next Bargaining Session: June 12, 12:30 LL South Lounge MANAGEMENT PROPOSED 3.5% raises WE DESERVE MORE We remain far apart on compensation. Management added only a half % to their last proposal 3%) and we countered with a 1 % decrease to 14% an increase that would bring us to a liveable wage. "I pursue freelance work and stipends to try to meet my cost of living and supplement my Fordham income, which is about 50% lower than it was when I worked as a public media professional." Member response on “Who is FFUˮ survey MEMBER MEETING JUNE 16̅ Monday 6-7 PM on Zoom (Register here) https://fordhamfacultyunited.com | fordhamfacultyunited@gmail.com | @fordhamfacultyu.bsky.social | @fordhamfacultyunited

We deserve a fair wage that allows us to cover our most basic needs to live in this city and continue to provide our students with the best education possible.

WE NEED YOUR VOICE! Come to our next bargaining session this THURSDAY 6/12 at LC: LL South Lounge from 12:30 - 4:30.

FORDHAM FACULTY UNITED BARGAINING BULLETIN Collective Bargaining Session 7: June 5, 2025 Next Bargaining Session: June 12, 12:30 LL South Lounge MANAGEMENT PROPOSED 3.5% raises WE DESERVE MORE We remain far apart on compensation. Management added only a half % to their last proposal 3%) and we countered with a 1 % decrease to 14% an increase that would bring us to a liveable wage. "I pursue freelance work and stipends to try to meet my cost of living and supplement my Fordham income, which is about 50% lower than it was when I worked as a public media professional." Member response on “Who is FFUˮ survey MEMBER MEETING JUNE 16̅ Monday 6-7 PM on Zoom (Register here) https://fordhamfacultyunited.com | fordhamfacultyunited@gmail.com | @fordhamfacultyu.bsky.social | @fordhamfacultyunited

We deserve a fair wage that allows us to cover our most basic needs to live in this city and continue to provide our students with the best education possible.

WE NEED YOUR VOICE! Come to our next bargaining session this THURSDAY 6/12 at LC: LL South Lounge from 12:30 - 4:30.

UPDATE: David Huerta was just released from custody!

Every FFU member is invited to our upcoming bargaining sessions!

Next ones are on June 5th in LC Campus, from 12PM to 4PM, and on June 12th at the same location from 10AM to 2PM.

Strong turnout by members is really helpful. You can join for the whole session or drop by for a little while.

FORDHAM FACULTY UNITED UNITED BARGAINING BULLETIN Collective Bargaining Session 6: May 6, 2025 Next Bargaining Session: May 14, 10am LL 140W G73 Management gave us their counter proposal on compensation: 3% raises. THIS IS NOT ENOUGH! • For full-timers, 3% doesn't cover the 2023 increase in our health insurance contributions-negotiated without our input and about to go up again! • For part-timers, 3% is a few hundred dollars a semester at most. Join us! FFU bargaining sessions are open to all FFU member faculty. What's next? We will continue to negotiate for a fair wage. We have one more session this month, on May 14, and will schedule more in June. BUT our contract expires on June 30. IF YOU WANT A BETTER RAISE, we need you to check your email and texts during the break for our updates. YOU are FFU. Without your help, we won't succeed. Members speak We are exploited.

We deserve a fair wage that allows us to cover our most basic needs to live in this city and continue to provide our students with the best education possible.

WE NEED YOUR VOICE! Come to our next bargaining session TOMORROW WEDNESDAY 5/14 at LC: from 10-2.

Bargaining sessions are open to ALL FFU members. Come for 30 minutes or stay the whole time.

We deserve a fair wage that allows us to cover our most basic needs to live in this city and continue to provide our students with the best education possible.

WE NEED YOUR VOICE! Come to our next bargaining session this WEDNESDAY 5/14 at LC: 140W G73 from 10-2.

FORDHAM FACULTY UNITED BARGAINING BULLETIN Collective Bargaining Session 6: May 6, 2025 Next Bargaining Session: May 14, 10am LL 140W G73 https://fordhamfacultyunited.com | fordhamfacultyunited@gmail.com | @fordhamfacultyu.bsky.social | @fordhamfacultyunited Management gave us their counter proposal on compensation: 3% raises. THIS IS NOT ENOUGH! ● For full-timers, 3% doesnʼt cover the 2023 increase in our health insurance contributions—negotiated without our input and about to go up again! ● For part-timers, 3% is a few hundred dollars a semester at most. Join us! FFU bargaining sessions are open to all FFU member faculty. Members speak We are exploited. Period. What’s next? We will continue to negotiate for a fair wage. We have one more session this month, on May 14, and will schedule more in June. BUT our contract expires on June 30. IF YOU WANT A BETTER RAISE, we need you to check your email and texts during the break for our updates. YOU are FFU. Without your help, we won’t succeed

At our last bargaining session, management responded to our compensation proposal with 3% raises across the board. THIS IS NOT ENOUGH! Fordham continues to fall behind other institutions in the city and even behind our peer institutions across the country.

We deserve a fair wage that allows us to cover our most basic needs to live in this city and continue to provide our students with the best education possible.

WE NEED YOUR VOICE! Come to our next bargaining session this WEDNESDAY 5/14 at LC.

Bargaining sessions are open to ALL FFU members.

The ChatGPT-driven disruption of education is often presented, including in today’s viral NYMag piece, as a surprise event for which ed workers were caught unprepared

This ignores dynamics & decisions that, in some cases, go back decades, without which we could’ve metabolized ChatGPT competently

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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.

"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 (...) Union leaders say they are filling a void in an existential fight for higher ed’s future."
@insidehighered.com

Why Protests Should Be Promises Modern movements that aim to advance racial equity should withhold and promise, rather than perform, writes Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò

A timely reminder by @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social of the necessary ingredients to build the powerful and sustained movements we need today: the power to withhold and the power to promise.

Good read (thanks @criener.bsky.social )

Why Protests Should Be Promises Modern movements that aim to advance racial equity should withhold and promise, rather than perform, writes Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò

A timely reminder by @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social of the necessary ingredients to build the powerful and sustained movements we need today: the power to withhold and the power to promise.

'They’re coming for everyone': Fearful NY immigrant families weigh voluntary departures Some undocumented immigrants are opting to leave the United States on their own, rather than risk deportation.

“We're not hearing those conversations because people have such deep roots in the country,” - Luba Cortés, our Immigration Lead Organizer said.

“ They've come to the country, they've built lives. They have children that are graduating college. They might be grandparents at this point.” #HereToStay

They promise good paying jobs assembling cell phones at factory plants while they aggressively oppose:
1) increase minimum wage.
2) right of workers to unionize.

It’s dystopian. And it’s a bunch of lies. Don’t fall for this.

Know Your Enemy: The Meaning of Pope Francis - Dissent Magazine Matt and Sam discuss the passing of Pope Francis, what his papacy meant, why he scandalized the Catholic right, and why his message feels so necessary and so far away.

A truly nuanced and interesting (as everything they do) conversation on Pope Francis, his religious and intellectual trajectory, the political dimensions of his papacy and his legacy By Matthew Sitman and Sam Adler-Bell from the great podcast Know Your Enemy, sponsored by @dissentmag.bsky.social

Know Your Enemy: The Meaning of Pope Francis - Dissent Magazine Matt and Sam discuss the passing of Pope Francis, what his papacy meant, why he scandalized the Catholic right, and why his message feels so necessary and so far away.

A truly nuanced and interesting (as everything they do) conversation on Pope Francis, his religious and intellectual trajectory, the political dimensions of his papacy and his legacy By Matthew Sitman and Sam Adler-Bell from the great podcast Know Your Enemy, sponsored by @dissentmag.bsky.social

MAY DAY STOP THE BILLIONAIRE TAKEOVER WE ARE MANY THEY ARE FEW MAY 1 @ SPM NYC / FOLEY 5Q

Today is May Day, May 1st, Primero de mayo: the International Workers Day. Celebrate it by joining your coworkers, labor sisters and brothers, comrades, friends and compañeres at a rally, a march, a square or a street.

This is in NYC. Foley Square 5pm.

Solidarity forever!

MAY DAY STOP THE BILLIONAIRE TAKEOVER WE ARE MANY THEY ARE FEW MAY 1 @ SPM NYC / FOLEY 5Q

Today is May Day, May 1st, Primero de mayo: the International Workers Day. Celebrate it by joining your coworkers, labor sisters and brothers, comrades, friends and compañeres at a rally, a march, a square or a street.

This is in NYC. Foley Square 5pm.

Solidarity forever!

Today, May 1, is International Workers' Day! It commemorates the sentencing to death of eight anarchist workers in Chicago who were framed for throwing a bomb at police who attacked a strike demonstration in May 1886 shop.workingclasshistory.com/products/the...

Curtailing people’s ability to read widely and carefully, to locate, assess, and compare different sources for themselves, and to write in their own voice about what they find and what it means, is arguably more effective than censorship. It is also one of the most obvious effects of generative AI.

Organized by a group of concerned faculty. Sponsored by American Studies. Read the statement of principles here: Rally for Community Solidarity Walsh Library Steps Noon, April 30 In solidarity with international students and in defense of academic freedom.

Rally for
Community Solidarity

Organized by a group of concerned faculty.
Sponsored by American Studies.

Walsh Library Steps
Noon, April 30
In solidarity with international students and in defense of academic freedom.

FORDHAM FACULTY UNITED BARGAINING BULLETIN Collective Bargaining Sessions 4 & 5: April 15 & 25, 2025 Next Bargaining Session: May 6, 10am LL South Lounge We have finished presenting proposals. Join us! In the last session, management agreed that we can show support for other unions without fear of discipline. We are waiting for management's response on compensation, which they FFU bargaining sessions are open to all FFU member faculty. expect to provide at our next bargaining session on May 6. Please attend this important session to show that FFU is united in our fight for a fair wage! FFU's proposals focus on the priorities that members shared in our fall 2024 survey: 1. Higher compensation that helps with inflation and cost of living, particularly for Full-Timers, who received little in our last contract due to rising health insurance costs. This is the #1 priority and our main goal in these negotiations. 2. Transparency in evaluations, promotions, and appointment decisions. 3. Better job security by shortening the probationary period. 4. Increasing full-time positions and creating a stronger path for members to move into these positions. "It seems unfair to the students who pay full tuition that they are instructed by someone who's being paid less than 1/3 of what a full-time faculty member is paid. We could devote more time to these students if we were paid proportionally." The most important and urgent issue is to fight for significant salary increases. What we are currently paid is not enough to live in this city. The last raise wasn't as significant as it may seemed percentage terms—it didn't make a real difference in net pay for Lecturers. Members speak We are exploited. Period. https://fordhamfacultyunited.com | fordhamfacultyunited@gmail.com|@fordhamfacultyu.bsky.social|@fordhamfacultyunited

Our bargaining bulletin is here!

Read to follow the negotiations and join our next bargaining session on Tuesday May 6, 10am LL South Lounge

University of Rochester Grad student workers are on strike! As attacks on higher ed, international students, and workers intensify nationally, they’re demanding a fair process to form their union. #urglu #strike #uofrstrike #rochester #rochesterny #uofr #universityofrochester #urochester #highereducation #gradschool #SEIU #UnionStrong #UnionsForAll

University of Rochester Grad student workers are on strike! As attacks on higher ed, international students, and workers intensify nationally, they’re demanding a fair process to form their union.
#highered #union #universityofrochester #gradstudents #seiu