Joint #AAUP - #AFT signature campaign re Florida situation. USians please ✍️ & 🔁!

"Faculty, advocates of academic freedom & anyone interested in preserving our democracy must fight these draconian measures with everything we have. The events unfolding in Florida are state-sponsored efforts to stifle ideas, silence debate, & limit the autonomy of educational institutions whose faculty, staff, students, or administrators may disagree with the party in power..."

https://actionnetwork.org/forms/florida-bill-would-destroy-higher-education-as-we-know-it/

#HigherEd

Good day as any for a #murderballad #caturday #music #Nickcave #PJHarvey #aft

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QzmMB8dTwGs

New Episode Drops! https://open.spotify.com/episode/1m7ZL47RGLxSHsUSWWeBVS?si=gMKOxOzNS7CfIy8_dxVITw&context=spotify%3Ashow%3A3keU2Gnhwz0Mz1xubctSTe 👍 #teachers #UnionYes #NEA #AFT #ISTA #Unions #TeachersUnions #UnionTeachers #Education #PublicEd #Teacher #Educators

The AFL-CIO goes to war with Meta - POLITICO. #ShareholderResolutions #AFT #SumOfUs #Meta #Alphabet #ESG

https://www.politico.com/newsletters/morning-money/2022/12/16/the-afl-cio-goes-to-war-with-meta-00074263

The AFL-CIO goes to war with Meta - POLITICO. #ShareholderResolutions #AFT #SumOfUs

https://www.politico.com/newsletters/morning-money/2022/12/16/the-afl-cio-goes-to-war-with-meta-00074263

I was really happy to hear that #PHLed moved forward with this plan to help paraprofessionals transition to teaching and see it featured in #AFT magazine. These are the people who already know & love our kids! We should definitely be investing in their career development when there's a teacher shortage. Let's go!
https://www.aft.org/ae/winter2022-2023/coleman_keyes

Teachers Union Membership Drops by 59,000 Across the Nation

NEA ended the school year with 2.5 million working members in 2021-22, down 40,107. AFT had 1.l2 million, a loss of 19,078

By Mike Antonucci

https://www.the74million.org/article/teachers-union-membership-drops-by-59000-across-the-nation/ #union #nea #aft #teaching

I love Adam Conover's work, and Randi Weingarten from The American Federation of Teachers is Fire in this episode.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5PLEZiSZVw

#AdamConover #RandiWeingarten #AFT #MorePerfectUnion

New instance, first introductory post:

I teach American history at Colorado State University - Pueblo where I get to teach everything after the Civil War. With respect to research, I specialize in food history. I used to be 'that guy who hates MOOCs," and still spend a lot of time on edtech issues, just not publicly anymore. I'm a longtime member of the #AAUP who's working with them and the #AFT to organize my campus and my whole state university system.

Randi Weingarten, the president of the American Federation of Teachers (#AFT), has denounced the former secretary of state Mike Pompeo for calling her “the most dangerous person in the world” and asserting that the nation’s schoolteachers teach “filth”.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/nov/23/teachers-union-randi-weingarten-pompeo

OTD in 1946, teachers #strike in St. Paul, #Minnesota, the first organized #walkout by #teachers in the country. The month-long “strike for better schools,” involving some 1,100 teachers and principals, led to reforms in the way #schools were administered and operated.

Photo via the Minnesota Historical Society: https://www.mnhs.org/blog/collectionsupclose/11853

#AFT #AFLCIO #union

Here's a proper introduction:

I'm a professional #filmmaker (though my resume has been thin the past few years, not just because of pandemic), #academic #professor in English/Composition and #cinema studies (this past fall at #TCNJ for Global #animation #film class), as a hobby I #podcast on soundcloud (wages of Cinema follow us there I guess), I #write & watch a LOT of #movies. I have the best and most huggable wife, I'm a proud but often unsatisfied #leftist and member of the #AFT #union

Still looking for #aaup and #aft people on here. Any hints?

#highered #organizing #labor #labour #academia