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Kevin Reuning @reuning.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

>Today, over 5,000 faculty across Penn State campuses, including University Park and the Commonwealth Campuses, won their faculty union, the Penn State Faculty Alliance, SEIU Local 668, with 2,510 faculty members voting Union Yes! www.pennstatefacultyalliance.org/news/2026/05...

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We Won!!!

Thousands of Penn State Faculty Vote to Join SEIU Local 668.

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UIS United Faculty @uisunitedfaculty.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Educators shouldn't have to be shadow administrators, forensic accountants, and crisis PR firms ON TOP of teaching fulltime...

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UIS United Faculty @uisunitedfaculty.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

"Does Illinois State want a reputation as the food-pantry university?" The question asked by Bloomington & Normal Trades & Labor Assembly President Jason Pascal on @illinoisstateu.bsky.social and the ongoing strike by AFSCME Local 1110. We'd pose the same question to @uofilsystem.bsky.social.

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Randi Weingarten 🖇️📚✊🇺🇸 @rweingarten.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Happy May Day! Today is about using our power in every way it counts. Worker power is how we come together. Civic action is how we turn that power into real change. How we engage, where we spend and how we hold leaders and corporations accountable empowers us to push for an economy that works all.

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UIS United Faculty @uisunitedfaculty.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Walter Crane, The Worker’s May-Pole, 1894.

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Randi Weingarten 🖇️📚✊🇺🇸 @rweingarten.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Americans want and deserve meaningful representation and voting rights, but this decision leaves too many Americans without protection or recourse from racial discrimination in redistricting. We'll continue to fight for the fair system of representation. www.aft.org/press-releas...

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AFT’s Weingarten on the Supreme Court’s decision in Louisiana v. Callais

WASHINGTON—AFT President Randi Weingarten issued the following statement on the Supreme Court’s decision in Louisiana v. Callais, gutting the Voting Rights Act:

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UIS United Faculty @uisunitedfaculty.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Upon ending our 17-day strike, multiple UIS faculty reported union-related signs had been ripped from office doors, walls, and windows in 3 different buildings, suggested an organized, union-busting campaign. Theft and vandalism, at a minimum. This is the climate we're dealing with... #AcademicSky

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UIS United Faculty @uisunitedfaculty.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

News like this is why we demanded guardrails on use of AI in the classroom and for reviewing faculty work. University of Illinois Springfield admins (or rather, their union-busting lawyers in Urbana): "its too new" to be in a contract! Uh, that's why we need protections asshats! #AcademicSky

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University Professors Disturbed to Find Their Lectures Chopped Up and Turned Into AI Slop

ASU Atomic, a new tool in beta at Arizona State University, takes faculty lectures and chops them into extremely short clips, that AI then attempts to turn into learning materials.

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UIS United Faculty @uisunitedfaculty.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Yesterday, a majority of voting tenure-track faculty members of UIS United Faculty have agreed to ratify the tentative agreements reached with University of Illinois Springfield administration on April 19th. Full contract will be posted to our WordPress site upon completion of ratification process.

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UIS United Faculty @uisunitedfaculty.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

In the face of tyranny, defend an institution (like your union)! h/t Tim Snyder

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UIS United Faculty @uisunitedfaculty.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

University of Illinois contract negotiating 101:

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UIS United Faculty @uisunitedfaculty.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Multi-million dollar deficits, plummeting enrollment, faculty strikes, staff threatening to strike, refusal to meet with students or faculty—it's time for University of Illinois Springfield Chancellor Janet Gooch to resign! #BuhBye

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UIS United Faculty @uisunitedfaculty.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

The lowest paid tenure-track faculty member (a person of color) at the University of Illinois Springfield makes $60,000/yr. Here are the annual salaries of the highest paid NON-teaching administrators who just told faculty they "can't afford" to give us meaningful cost-of-living raises:

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UIS United Faculty @uisunitedfaculty.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

With only a couple exceptions, @uisedu.bsky.social faculty at every rank are the lowest paid among ALL Illinois public universities. This, from the wealthiest and best funded uni system in the state. Shame!

Chart comparing faculty salaries at Illinois public universities for assistant, associate and full professor ranks

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UIS United Faculty @uisunitedfaculty.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

We stand in solidarity with the Graduate Employees Organization at UI Chicago forced to strike by a callous administration that refuses to bargain in good faith! Strike fund at link:

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About GEO

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UIS United Faculty @uisunitedfaculty.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Since 2009 the University of Illinois (@uofilsystem.bsky.social) has forced employees to strike or threaten to strike 36 times. Now, graduate employees at UI Chicago. How is this any way to run a university?

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Marianna Limas @mnlimas.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Why—and How—Academics Should Talk With Journalists Here are some suggestions on how academics can make their work more accessible to general audiences in a rapidly changing media environment. By Cordelia Kwon, @lizstuart.bsky.social, @joannekenen.bsky.social, @insidehighered.com #academicsky 🧪

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✍️Science Writing News Roundup #271

Landing Your First Assignment Without Any Clips + Why—and How—Academics Should Talk With Journalists.

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joeengleman.bsky.social @joeengleman.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

My old union, the UIC Graduate Employees Union (UIC-GEO), is going out on strike today after spending just under a year (364 days) negotiating for a new contract and working without one since August 2025. www.uicgeo.org/2026-strike/...

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uicgeo.org - Strike FAQs

How did we get here? Why are we going on strike? We have been bargaining with the university administration for a new contract since April 28th, 2025–nearly an entire year. We have been working withou...

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

UIC GEO remain on strike today! teaching is work, research is work, making knowledge and making knowledgeable humans is work Chicago, go walk the line www.uicgeo.org/2026-strike/... anyone, donate to the strike fund www.paypal.com/donate/?host...

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Donate to AMERICAN FEDERATION OF TEACHERS 6297 LOCAL UIC GRADUATE ORG IFT-AFT

Help support AMERICAN FEDERATION OF TEACHERS 6297 LOCAL UIC GRADUATE ORG IFT-AFT by donating or sharing with your friends.

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

good morning to UIC GEO, AFT local 6297, ON STRIKE join the pickets www.uicgeo.org/2026-strike/...

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uicgeo.org - Picket Locations

April 27th Picket locations

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AFT @aft.org · 28/04/2026

👋 Can you find some money to increase teacher pay?

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AAUP @aaup.org · 28/04/2026

"A study by the American Association of University Professors has shown that between 1976 and 2011, non-faculty professional positions, especially in student services and administration, grew by roughly 369%, while full-time tenured and tenure-track faculty grew by only 23%."

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The Death of the Art School

The rampant corporatization and "administrification" of American higher-education institutions has turned students into mere consumers.

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