while there are things about our living situation that are hard or unpleasant, this week I found myself feeling some ease—the kind that is only possible when you know you won't have to give away or pack away your things and yet again move to a new place, start a new job at a new institution, and figure out what your life will look like this year.

being placed makes the human work of housekeeping and artmaking possible.

#ContingentAcademia #ThePrecarityTax #AcademicLabor

This week graduate students and a postdoc at UC San Diego got arrested and charged with 'vandalism' and 'conspiracy' for a labor protest. They wrote with chalk and washable paint about the fact that the University has not paid them enough as dictated by the union contract and table talk. The University, specifically the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, changed their appointment percentage from 50% to 43% in order to avoid giving them a raise.

Here is a local news article about it: https://www.kpbs.org/news/local/2023/06/30/uc-san-diego-student-workers-arrested-after-allegations-of-conspiracy-and-vandalism

They are gathering signatures on this petition:
https://www.change.org/p/tell-uc-to-drop-their-charges-against-protesting-workers

Please share it widely!

A couple weeks ago, the university leveled student conduct violations against grad students who staged a protest at an alumni event about the same labor violations from the university, and other similar issues. They accused the students of assaulting the chancellor and threatening health and safety, when the action was completely nonviolent. The student conduct process is still ongoing...

In summary, the university's retaliation is very overpowered compared to the modest demands and peaceful demonstrations from the grad student and postdoc workers.

Moreover, this is another reminder that the cops are not your friends, no matter how nicely you behave.

#AcademicLabor #HotLaborSummer #AllCopsAreBad

"Blaming education for the fallout of decisions made by employers & policy makers ultimately established the chronically weak political status of education and provided justification for decades of misplaced reforms in both K–12 and higher education. And the assumption became entrenched that individuals not thriving in the so-called knowledge economy should take personal responsibility for their educational and skill deficits."
http://www.aaup.org/article/mythical-labor-markets-and-demographic-crises-education-reform-movement

#Academia #Labor #AcademicLabor #Education

After DECADES of hard work, the #GraduateStudentWorkers at Yale just won their union election with 91% of votes!

Not only is this awesome for them, but unionized #labor at #Yale just added more than 3,000 workers to our ranks! I’m so happy and excited!

Welcome into the fold, #Local33!

#SolidarityForever #UniteHere #UniteHereLocal33 #UniteHereLocal34 #Academia #AcademicLabor

What makes a job ad “terrible”?
On September 18, 2021, Dada Docot launched what she called “Search for 2021 Worst Anthro Job Ads.” Taking place on Twitter, this “contest” brought public attention to conversations that often happen in private between friends and colleagues who may bemoan the state of the job market and the endlessly multiplying requirements of job ads but feel relati
https://anthrodendum.org/2022/12/13/what-makes-a-job-ad-terrible/
#BlogPost #academiclabor #Jobhunting

bell hooks would have supported the #newschool #strike. Very sad to see what’s happening up the street. Baldwin and bell hooks would not have wanted this. (If this subtoot is cryptic, please look up updates on the New School strike.) #academiclabor #dei #academicmastodon #litstudies @litstudies

RT @PhaedraPezzullo@twitter.com

Honorariums in higher ed are trending again. Let’s not overgeneralize what #AcademicLabor is: sciences v humanities, early v mid career, consultants v academics (a few do both well; corporate admins love the former), first book v superstars (ex Angela Davis), etc, aren’t the same

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/PhaedraPezzullo/status/1600110627749384193

@clairepotter A little surprising to see one of the most direct indictments of TT faculty complacency I've read published in the Chronicle. #academiclabor

In case any UC profs follow me on here: If you get the chance and haven’t yet, do head out to the pickets. It meant a *lot* to us at NYU in Spring of last year when our profs came to the picket line to encourage us, participate, and show support. You’ll win major kudos with the grads. And look, they’re making such fun tiktoks.

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTRQqqJVb/

#uc #strike #gradstudent #academiclabor #academicmastodon #ucberkeley #litstudies @litstudies

Names are important. That means you have to take the time pronounce them correctly. Refusing to do so is a microaggression. #academiclabor

#AcademicMastodon #AcademicLabor https://www.chronicle.com/article/the-hard-truths-of-the-academic-labor-crisis

#academicrelated #academiclabor

Is dove medical press predatory?

Got a request to review from one of their journals and not sure…

#academiclabor #journals #peerreviews

Is dove medical press predatory?

Got a request to review from one of their journals and not sure…

#academiclabor #journals #peerreviews

"Tenured #faculty in particular must build #solidarity with their more precarious coworkers. Labor justice for campus workers and #education justice for students & alumni go hand in hand." Good op-ed! #Strike #AcademicLabor #Academodon https://www.sacbee.com/opinion/op-ed/article268781062.html

Support UC workers! I did and you can too! Go my mastachamps! Can't spell UC without a you!

#AcademicLabor #strike #UAW #UC #hardshipfund

https://givebutter.com/uc-uaw

Leave Twitter just because it’s lacking infrastructure and is terribly understaffed?

Babe, I work in academia. #twitter #academiclabor #MastadonMigration

Hello, all. #introduction I’m an advocate for the #humanities, inside academe and outside it. Lapsed #Victorian lit and culture researcher and teacher. Current executive director of #MLA and prez of National Humanities Alliance. Interested in #academiclabor and #racialequity and #disability and #graduatestudies and other stuff. Join your professional association—there’s strength in numbers.

Hi again: I'm Jill! I'm an associate prof at OSU who's worked on media/the occult. I still love all things media & my passion now is character, in-marriage stories, realism, aesthetics, & alternate humanisms. Trained in #c19, tending heavily these days to #c20 & #c21 as well. On my school's AAUP exec board; affordable/equitable ed advocate

#LiteratureStudies #C19Studies #20thCentury #21stCentury #ContemporaryLit #LitScholars #VictorianStudies #Victodon #academiclabor #labororganizing

Been hinting about this job market project forever, and now I can share!

Is (precarious) academic labor outside the conceptualization of diversity?

We’re sharing findings from our project on the labor of applying to TT communication jobs in the U.S., and how diversity emerges as an organizational tool-- from disciplinary associations to the process of reading a job call and applying to a position.

If you’re at NCA, join us in NOLA!
#NCA22 #Commodon #CommunicationStudies #AcademicLabor