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Fordham Faculty United
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Contingent Faculty Union at Fordham University in New York.

https://fordhamfacultyunited.com/

Our working conditions are our students’ learning conditions.
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We're Fordham Faculty United, the contingent faculty union at Fordham U in NYC. In the coming days we're starting our CBA bargaining with Fordham admin, amidst US extremely uncertain situation.

We're here to build solidarity. Please show your support by following and sharing our updates.
The Trump administration must release people from unjust detention and return them safely to their families. #SolidaritySummer
July 1, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Join the Fordham Faculty United Summer Kick-off Central Park Picnic!

All FFU members and their families and friends are welcome!

This Saturday, June 21, 1 pm to 3 pm (weather permitting) at Central Park Sheep Meadow.

You are welcome to bring provisions & a ground-cloth.
June 19, 2025 at 2:26 PM
FORDHAM FACULTY UNITED
BARGAINING BULLETIN
Collective Bargaining Session 7: June 12, 2025
Next Bargaining Session: June 26, 1 p.m. LL South Lounge

We need to hear from you! Learn more details and ask your questions at tonight´s members´ meeting (details sent via email)
June 16, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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We deserve a fair wage that allows us to cover our most basic needs to live in this city and continue to provide our students with the best education possible.

WE NEED YOUR VOICE! Come to our next bargaining session this THURSDAY 6/12 at LC: LL South Lounge from 12:30 - 4:30.
June 10, 2025 at 10:51 PM
We deserve a fair wage that allows us to cover our most basic needs to live in this city and continue to provide our students with the best education possible.

WE NEED YOUR VOICE! Come to our next bargaining session this THURSDAY 6/12 at LC: LL South Lounge from 12:30 - 4:30.
June 10, 2025 at 10:51 PM
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UPDATE: David Huerta was just released from custody!
June 9, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Every FFU member is invited to our upcoming bargaining sessions!

Next ones are on June 5th in LC Campus, from 12PM to 4PM, and on June 12th at the same location from 10AM to 2PM.

Strong turnout by members is really helpful. You can join for the whole session or drop by for a little while.
May 30, 2025 at 6:54 PM
We deserve a fair wage that allows us to cover our most basic needs to live in this city and continue to provide our students with the best education possible.

WE NEED YOUR VOICE! Come to our next bargaining session TOMORROW WEDNESDAY 5/14 at LC: from 10-2.
May 13, 2025 at 11:44 PM
At our last bargaining session, management responded to our compensation proposal with 3% raises across the board. THIS IS NOT ENOUGH! Fordham continues to fall behind other institutions in the city and even behind our peer institutions across the country.
May 12, 2025 at 5:21 PM
We deserve a fair wage that allows us to cover our most basic needs to live in this city and continue to provide our students with the best education possible.

WE NEED YOUR VOICE! Come to our next bargaining session this WEDNESDAY 5/14 at LC.

Bargaining sessions are open to ALL FFU members.
May 12, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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The ChatGPT-driven disruption of education is often presented, including in today’s viral NYMag piece, as a surprise event for which ed workers were caught unprepared

This ignores dynamics & decisions that, in some cases, go back decades, without which we could’ve metabolized ChatGPT competently

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May 7, 2025 at 3:48 PM
"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 (...) Union leaders say they are filling a void in an existential fight for higher ed’s future."
@insidehighered.com
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.
www.insidehighered.com
May 6, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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A timely reminder by @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social of the necessary ingredients to build the powerful and sustained movements we need today: the power to withhold and the power to promise.
Why Protests Should Be Promises
Modern movements that aim to advance racial equity should withhold and promise, rather than perform, writes Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò
time.com
May 5, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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Good read (thanks @criener.bsky.social )
A timely reminder by @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social of the necessary ingredients to build the powerful and sustained movements we need today: the power to withhold and the power to promise.
Why Protests Should Be Promises
Modern movements that aim to advance racial equity should withhold and promise, rather than perform, writes Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò
time.com
May 5, 2025 at 11:18 PM
A timely reminder by @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social of the necessary ingredients to build the powerful and sustained movements we need today: the power to withhold and the power to promise.
Why Protests Should Be Promises
Modern movements that aim to advance racial equity should withhold and promise, rather than perform, writes Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò
time.com
May 5, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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“We're not hearing those conversations because people have such deep roots in the country,” - Luba Cortés, our Immigration Lead Organizer said.

“ They've come to the country, they've built lives. They have children that are graduating college. They might be grandparents at this point.” #HereToStay
'They’re coming for everyone': Fearful NY immigrant families weigh voluntary departures
Some undocumented immigrants are opting to leave the United States on their own, rather than risk deportation.
gothamist.com
May 5, 2025 at 7:26 PM
They promise good paying jobs assembling cell phones at factory plants while they aggressively oppose:
1) increase minimum wage.
2) right of workers to unionize.

It’s dystopian. And it’s a bunch of lies. Don’t fall for this.
May 5, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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A truly nuanced and interesting (as everything they do) conversation on Pope Francis, his religious and intellectual trajectory, the political dimensions of his papacy and his legacy By Matthew Sitman and Sam Adler-Bell from the great podcast Know Your Enemy, sponsored by @dissentmag.bsky.social
Know Your Enemy: The Meaning of Pope Francis - Dissent Magazine
Matt and Sam discuss the passing of Pope Francis, what his papacy meant, why he scandalized the Catholic right, and why his message feels so necessary and so far away.
www.dissentmagazine.org
May 3, 2025 at 2:30 AM
A truly nuanced and interesting (as everything they do) conversation on Pope Francis, his religious and intellectual trajectory, the political dimensions of his papacy and his legacy By Matthew Sitman and Sam Adler-Bell from the great podcast Know Your Enemy, sponsored by @dissentmag.bsky.social
Know Your Enemy: The Meaning of Pope Francis - Dissent Magazine
Matt and Sam discuss the passing of Pope Francis, what his papacy meant, why he scandalized the Catholic right, and why his message feels so necessary and so far away.
www.dissentmagazine.org
May 3, 2025 at 2:30 AM
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Today is May Day, May 1st, Primero de mayo: the International Workers Day. Celebrate it by joining your coworkers, labor sisters and brothers, comrades, friends and compañeres at a rally, a march, a square or a street.

This is in NYC. Foley Square 5pm.

Solidarity forever!
May 1, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Today is May Day, May 1st, Primero de mayo: the International Workers Day. Celebrate it by joining your coworkers, labor sisters and brothers, comrades, friends and compañeres at a rally, a march, a square or a street.

This is in NYC. Foley Square 5pm.

Solidarity forever!
May 1, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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Today, May 1, is International Workers' Day! It commemorates the sentencing to death of eight anarchist workers in Chicago who were framed for throwing a bomb at police who attacked a strike demonstration in May 1886 shop.workingclasshistory.com/products/the...
May 1, 2025 at 6:25 AM
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Curtailing people’s ability to read widely and carefully, to locate, assess, and compare different sources for themselves, and to write in their own voice about what they find and what it means, is arguably more effective than censorship. It is also one of the most obvious effects of generative AI.
April 11, 2025 at 2:30 PM