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Graduate Labor Org

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Union of graduate student workers at Brown University ✊🏿✊🏽✊🏻 | Local 6516 @aftunion.bsky.social + The Rhode Island Federation of Teachers and Health Professionals glounion.org

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Graduate Labor Org @gradlabororg.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
A big thank you to everyone for a year of solidarity. Our work is just getting started!
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Graduate Labor Org @gradlabororg.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Earlier this semester, GLO members turned out to the state house to support Bills H5187/S124. Today, we're asking you to express your support once again. Send a letter to your state rep and help us enshrine graduate workers' labor rights in Rhode Island state law: actionnetwork.org/letters/supp...
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Graduate Labor Org @gradlabororg.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Union roundup: postdocs and medical residents and dining services workers and community coordinators and grad workers and undergrad workers and library workers (and more!) www.browndailyherald.com/article/2025...
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For Brown’s labor unions, a year marked by bargaining, activism, first contracts
Computer science TAs, community coordinators, shuttle drivers and dining workers reached contract agreements with Brown this year. 
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Graduate Labor Org @gradlabororg.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Always thankful for our strong contract. We fought for protections for grads who aren't US citizens last bargaining cycle and those protections have never been more important. Our employer has major leverage and it's up to us to force them to use it www.browndailyherald.com/article/2025...
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Amid threats to student visas, graduate students’ labor contract takes on new relevance
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SEIU_ORG @seiu.org · 16/04/2025
Our union sister, Rümeysa Öztürk, has been detained by ICE for exercising her right to free speech. Please consider contributing to or sharing this fundraiser organized by Rümeysa's immigration court legal team:
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Justice for Rümeysa Öztürk
Dear Friends, Allies, and Supporters,
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Higher Education Labor United (HELU) @higheredlabor.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
"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." Read more from HELU and @aaup.bsky.social leaders; maybe even feel a little hope: www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...
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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.
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Ryan Quinn @ryanequinn.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
U of Washington Research Coordinators, Consultants Unionize
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U of Washington Research Coordinators, Consultants Unionize
More than 700 University of Washington research coordinators and consultants have unionized, joining already organized research scientists and engineers there to create a bargaining unit more than 2,0...
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Graduate Labor Org @gradlabororg.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Don’t be fooled by Brown’s legalese: the university will not protect you. From NYC to Somerville to Tuscaloosa, ICE agents have kidnapped doctoral researchers, and admins refuse to fight back. Sign our petition to demand a safe workplace for all community members: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Graduate Labor Org @gradlabororg.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
GMM Alert! Members, join us at the office (5 Steeple St) this Wednesday at 7 pm to discuss urgent business. Key topics: how to protect our colleagues, staying safe amidst a federal crackdown, and updates to our constitution
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Graduate Labor Org @gradlabororg.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
New op-ed from our president, Michael Ziegler: "If Brown’s administration is truly committed to the value of free expression, it must do everything in its power to ensure community members are not silenced." www.browndailyherald.com/article/2025...
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Graduate Labor Org @gradlabororg.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Proud to stand in solidarity with our union siblings, Brown Postdoc Labor Organization. BPLO has been bargaining since last May (!) and the University still won't commit to a fair pay increase. www.browndailyherald.com/article/2025...
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Campus unions, labor activists protest in support of postdocs, library workers
Around 100 attended the rally, which coincided with a bargaining session between postdocs and Brown.
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Graduate Labor Org @gradlabororg.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Collective action has never been more important. When the bosses and the professoriate are too scared to fight, we have to stand up for each other.
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Graduate Labor Org @gradlabororg.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Absolute nightmare scenario for some of the most important research in the country
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Graduate Labor Org @gradlabororg.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
As the most vulnerable in our communities are under attack, grads at Brown demand that the University protects us and all workers, students, and community members. Sign the petition and please share with your colleagues: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Green graphic with white text entitled "Act Now!" expressing concern with the federal government's shocking arrests and threats to non-citizens
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Graduate Labor Org @gradlabororg.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
GLO's very own Michael Ziegler is in the Herald today with some rightful pushback on admin's austerity. Our bosses live in literal mansions while they us to do more with less. Democratic control of the workplace is the only way forward. www.browndailyherald.com/article/2025...
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Ziegler GS: In ‘tough waters,’ Brown needs a better team at the helm
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AFT @aft.org · 25/02/2025
I’d rather be in a lab right now. But we’re here because the NIH grants that fund our research have been cut. RFK Jr. says he wants to make America healthy again - but how does he want to do that without our research?! - Annika Barber, @ruaaup-aft.bsky.social
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Graduate Labor Org @gradlabororg.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
An underrated part of organizing is that you make all sorts of new friends
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Graduate Labor Org @gradlabororg.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
We're proud to support House Bill 5187, which will amend Rhode Island's Labor Relations Act to enshrine our right to organize and collectively bargain as graduate workers. Now is the time to stand up for labor ✊🏿✊🏽✊🏻 @aftunion.bsky.social
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Graduate Labor Org @gradlabororg.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
Cue the slippery slope of administrators: we don't have grads to teach and conduct research, we're not hiring more faculty, we're teaching fewer classes, so we're just going to shut this whole department down
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Graduate Labor Org @gradlabororg.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
Even the wealthiest institutions are not exempt from austerity. Organizing has never been more urgent
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