UC-AFT Bay Area Chapter

UC-AFT Local 1474 advocacy graphic urging members to stand against attacks on education and contact university leadership to refuse concessions from Trump's Department of Justice and stabilize funding for research and teaching at UC.

Following the successful faculty association lawsuit, the UC admininstration was forced to release Trump’s extortionist demands of UCLA. Now is the time to tell President Milliken and the UC Regents to refuse any concessions. Sign it: actionnetwork.org/letters/hold... @uc-faculty.bsky.social

UC-AFT Fall Bargaining Summit flyer for Unit 18 Teaching Faculty on Friday 11/14 at 12pm on Zoom, featuring the UC-AFT logo with California outline and photo of faculty protest march.

Calling all UC-AFT lecturers: Join the November 14 Fall Bargaining Summit on Zoom. We’ll be discussing our contract pillars and building collective power as we move toward bargaining. RSVP now! us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Proud to stand shoulder to shoulder with our union siblings from @afscme3299.bsky.social and @calnurses.bsky.social today. There's nothing that scares @uofcalifornia.bsky.social more than our solidarity 👻 ✊

Event flyer for 'Know your rights @ Cal' workshop on November 3, 1-2:30 pm, organized by SAFIRE and La Alianza. The flyer explains that everyone in the US has constitutional rights regardless of immigration status and encourages students, faculty, and staff to attend to learn how to protect themselves and others.

La Alianza and SAFIRE @ Cal (Students, Alumni, & Faculty for Immigrant Rights Education) are hosting a Know Your Rights workshop, Nov 3, 1-2:30pm. RSVP at link below for location. cryptpad.fr/form/#/2/for...

So, @uofcalifornia.bsky.social's fancy new $175+ million hotel is sure to help address the staffing issues hindering our research, delaying care to our patients, and enhancing the academic environment of our students, right? 😑

Today, we rallied at the Residence Inn by Marriott Berkeley to call out UC’s $175.8 million hotel splurge. UPTE members and allies showed up to say: fund people, not luxury hotels. That’s not public service—that’s a broken priority list. UC must reset its priorities. #UC #UnionStrong

After court forces release of Trump's billion-dollar settlement demands, UC opposition groups turn to next goals Faculty filed a public records lawsuit to get details of a negotiation that has mostly taken place behind closed doors.

“Our working conditions could be directly impacted by this proposal, and we wanted to understand exactly how.”
- @lucecaroline.bsky.social laist.com/news/educati...

The Trump administration has demanded, among other things, that UCLA not enroll “foreign students likely to engage in anti-Western, anti-American, or antisemitic disruptions or harassment.”

Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Who is Marc Rowan? The Billionaire Behind Trump’s Higher Ed Loyalty Oath & How We Fight Back. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about... Billionaire Marc Rowan, CEO of the private equity giant Apollo Global Management, is a key author of the Trump administration's "Compact" for higher ed—a loyalty oath that would award federal research...

Who is Marc Rowan? Higher Ed Loyalty Oath and How We Fight Back
Th, Oct 30, 7pm ET
Billionaire Marc Rowan, CEO of Apollo Global, is key author of the Trump admin's compact for higher ed—a loyalty oath.
Open to AAUP and AFT members, higher ed and healthcare workers, union members, student groups.

Library Admins Are Using Public Money to Hire Union Busters Against Workers “We don’t want to be fighting for what we already agreed to,” said a Maryland public library worker.

Why are Maryland public libraries spending public money to depress the wages of public sector workers? My latest for @truthout.org.

truthout.org/articles/lib...

UC: support people, not luxury hotels! Join us Wed, Oct 29, 12:30–1 pm—Rally at Residence Inn, 2121 Center St, Berkeley. UC found $175.8 million for a hotel; it can fund safe staffing & fair pay. Costumes welcome (vampires 🧛 encouraged) but optional. Bring a coworker. #UC #UCBerkeley

Event flyer for 'Know your rights @ Cal' workshop on November 3, 1-2:30 pm, organized by SAFIRE and La Alianza. The flyer explains that everyone in the US has constitutional rights regardless of immigration status and encourages students, faculty, and staff to attend to learn how to protect themselves and others.

La Alianza and SAFIRE @ Cal (Students, Alumni, & Faculty for Immigrant Rights Education) are hosting a Know Your Rights workshop, Nov 3, 1-2:30pm. RSVP at link below for location. cryptpad.fr/form/#/2/for...

UC releases $1.2 billion DOJ settlement proposal with UCLA On Friday, the University of California publicly released the $1.2 billion settlement proposal document that the U.S. Department of Justice, or DOJ, sent to UCLA on Aug. 8. This comes

The UC had to be compelled by the Supreme Court of California to release this proposal, the culmination of a lawsuit filed by @uc-faculty.bsky.social. Now the public gets to see the absolute extortionist tactics the Trump administaration is posing to UCLA. www.dailycal.org/news/uc/uc-r...

The UCLA campus in Los Angeles on Feb. 18, 2022. Photo by Raquel Natalicchio for CalMatters. Hed: What’s inside Trump’s $1.2-billion settlement demand letter to UCLA? It’s finally public

At a planned rally today at UCLA, faculty associations of UCLA and the wider UC are taking a victory lap and urging Gov. Newsom to join their fight against President Donald Trump’s demands for a $1.2-billion settlement with the renowned public university. bit.ly/48KnvXW

📸 Raquel Natalicchio

Hey academic #LibraryWorkers: Join us next week (11/5 at 4pmPT) for another Library Workers Organizing Meeting & Strategy Session hosted byt @higheredlabor.bsky.social us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Let's collectively fight for better libraries!

NEW: The CA Supreme Court rejected the University of California's appeal to block a ruling forcing the UC to share the Trump settlement demand of $1.2 billion.

UC faculty sued to have the letter released in an effort to make it public. To date we've known limited elements of what Trump seeks.

Friday and saturday - Local Library Meet Up Friday 5pm, Saturday 12pm. For more information and the toolkit go to bit.ly/baygetready Bay Resistance logo. Photo of bookshelves in a library. QR code with Sign Up for Text Alerts

ICE Out of the Bay community meetups are happening at libraries today at 5pm and Saturday at noon. Get organized to do community patrols, rapid response, know your rights outreach, and more! www.bayresistance.org/get-ready

University of California faculty push back against Big Brother cybersecurity mandate School officials defend software as bulwark against ransomware, but professors fear potential surveillance of their devices

“For many years, I thought we didn’t need a union,” says Walter Leal, a professor of molecular and cellular biology at UC Davis. “Now, I believe the only way out is if we’re effectively unionized, which is a very dramatic change.” www.science.org/content/arti... @uc-faculty.bsky.social

Judge orders UC to release Trump UCLA settlement offer at the center of private negotiations A judge ordered UC to release the settlement proposal sent by the Trump administration in August. It outlines a $1.2-billion fine and vast campus changes.

UCLA must release Trump's extortion demands. Courts side with UCLA Faculty Association to force release of public documents. The 28 page letter should be released by Friday. Big victory for @uclafa.bsky.social, all faculty, students, parents, and Californians
www.latimes.com/california/s...

The resistance to Trump’s “loyalty oath” compact is growing and growing!

✅MIT
✅Penn
✅Brown
✅UVa
✅Dartmouth
✅USC
✅Arizona

🟩 Vanderbilt
🟩 Texas

Organized faculty and workers in higher ed will lead us to victory and towards a better world for our students!

#NoLoyaltyOaths
#NoKings
#DefendHigherEd

“STAY OUT OF THE BAY” — EMERGENCY MOBILIZATION CALL: Know Your Rights. Build Community Solidarity. Mobilization Plans. The Trump administration is escalating its crackdown on dissent, and reports are mounting that ICE may be deployed to the Bay Area. But in the Bay Area we are also ready to stand up for our communitie...

“Stay Out of the Bay” — Emergency Mobilization Call tonight (Oct 22, 6pm). Click to RSVP for the Zoom.✊ actionnetwork.org/events/stay-... @ucaft.bsky.social @cftunion.bsky.social

UVA quad with students sitting on the lawn. Below on an orange background the kicker Faculty Issues, the headline UVA, Dartmouth Latest to Reject Trump’s Higher Ed Compact, and the sub-headline The University of Virginia is the first public, and Southern, institution to publicly turn down the administration’s “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education.” Photo source: Daxia Rojas/AFP via Getty Images

The quote “Our universities have a responsibility to set our own academic and institutional policies, guided by our mission and values, our commitment to free expression, and our obligations under the law. Staying true to this responsibility is what will help American higher education build bipartisan public trust and continue to uphold its place as the envy of the world.” by Sian Leah Beilock, president of Dartmouth

ICYMI | The University of Virginia and @dartmouthcollege.bsky.social have become the latest higher ed institutions to publicly reject the Trump administration’s “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education.”

Read more ➡️ https://bit.ly/4o8MDN2

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What Big Tech doesn’t want you to know about AI hype, privacy, & the fight for digital freedom. This week on The Disinfo Detox, Nolan Higdon talks with Alison Macrina of the Library Freedom Project a🎧 Link to full episode in the comments @thedisinfodetox.bsky.social

🚨 Breaking News | UVA Becomes 5th University to Reject Trump Higher Ed Compact

The university is the first public, and Southern, institution to publicly turn down the administration's “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education." https://bit.ly/47tWIOl

#EDUSky #AcademicSky #HigherEd

UC's misplaced priorities are once again on full display. We hope their new hotel serves the people of California as well as the hundreds of vital healthcare, research, and technical workers they've laid off in recent months #union

UC unlawfully and abruptly laid off twenty researchers at UCSF. These callous layoffs will have serious consequences on public health: 50 million people globally suffer from a neurodegenerative disease. If UC won’t stand up for research, we will. We won’t give up on science. #UC #UCSF #UnionStrong

USC rejects Trump education compact aimed at shifting the university to the right USC interim President Beong-Soo Kim said in a statement that he had sent a letter to the U.S. Department of Education turning down the Trump offer.

BREAKING: USC HAS JOIN THE RESISTANCE!

That’s four (MIT, Brown, Penn, USC) of the nine schools Trump targeted.

Stay tuned! 🍿

#DefendHigherEd
#StandUpFightBack

“With its compact, the Trump administration is attempting to silence not just university presidents, but every school, department and center that universities run.” @ucaft.bsky.social @aaup.org @uc-faculty.bsky.social

Trump Higher Ed Compact 2025 We stand for education—for science, for students and for freedom—and against this backward, anti-American policy. We call on university leaders, faculty, staff and students to unite in rejecting the T...

“We call on university leaders, faculty, staff and students to unite in rejecting the Trump compact and to defend the principle that no president has the right to buy obedience or sell off freedom.” Sign the petition now!
actionnetwork.org/petitions/tr... @aaup.org @afthighered.bsky.social

Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: National Teach-In on Loyalty Oaths. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar. The Trump administration has imposed unprecedented and highly politicized regulations on institutions of higher education, pressured them with coercive funding threats, extorted promises to fall in li...

Join AAUP's National Teach-In on Trump's Loyalty Oaths!

Tomorrow, Oct 17pm at 2pmET on Zoom. Be there!

Register at link below👇

#AcademicSky #DefendHigherEd