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Karin Rosemblatt
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Immigrant, union leader @AAUP, historian of Latin America writing on gender, race, human rights, and the history of the social sciences.
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WATCH & SHARE: College & university faculty teach classes that transform students’ lives and run labs that result in lifesaving medical research. They create opportunity and strengthen communities. We must defend higher education, not defund it.

Learn more: aft.org/higeredbenefitseveryone
Attacks on Higher Ed are Attacks on ALL of Us.
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September 18, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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uam-umd.bsky.social
UAM-UMD's @karinrosemblatt.bsky.social, Katherine Wasdin, & @mtmiller.bsky.social repping UAM-UMD @aaup.org & @aft.org's Summer Institute at Morehouse College in Atlanta this past weekend.

Learned so much! Ready to come back to UMD & MD and win our union this year!

#OrganizeFightWin
July 21, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Become a dues-paying member of @uamumd so we can keep up the fight. Dues pay for the legal fight to protec #academicfreedom and #freespeech
uam-umd.bsky.social UAM-UMD @uam-umd.bsky.social · May 15
At UAM-UMD, it is May Membership Month!

We are asking you to help your union build power by becoming a dues-paying member of @aaup.bsky.social!

Join here: www.aaup.org/membership/j...

(And if you already are, find a colleague to join!)

Why should you become a dues-paying member?

Let's 🧵 this.
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See dues rates categories based on your annual academic income. Show your support with a lifetime membership! Please contact membershipservices@aaup.org with any questions.
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May 15, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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Academia (and ajacent) pals, do you know about the National Day of Action for Higher Ed on April 17?

If not, now you do: www.dayofactionforhighered.org
A National Day of Action for Higher Ed
On April 17, higher ed unions, AAUP chapters, and student organizations across the U.S. are coming together to fight back against the coordinated assault on teaching and learning, and to mobilize for ...
www.dayofactionforhighered.org
April 8, 2025 at 10:34 PM
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BREAKING:
The AAUP & chapters @ Harvard, Rutgers, & NYU; & the Middle East Studies Association today filed a lawsuit to block the Trump admin from carrying out arrests, detentions, & deportations of students & faculty who participate in pro-Palestinian protests & protected 1st Amendment activities.
AAUP, Allies Sue over Trump Policy of Arresting and Threatening to Deport Students and Faculty for Lawful Speech
The national AAUP; chapters at Harvard, Rutgers, and NYU; and the Middle East Studies Association today filed a lawsuit seeking to block the Trump administration from carrying out large-scale arrests,...
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March 25, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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proftwolf.bsky.social
We are so thankful for the leadership of the legal team at @protectdemocracy.org!
March 25, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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ihppod.bsky.social
New episode. @themdta.bsky.social
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@pjminterconnection.bsky.social @karinrosemblatt.bsky.social Music by @musicandjustice.bsky.social linktr.ee/ihppod @sunildasgupta.bsky.social
March 25, 2025 at 11:44 AM
Powerful testimony about why @uam-umd.bsky.social needs college bargaining rights
uam-umd.bsky.social UAM-UMD @uam-umd.bsky.social · Mar 11
"When I came here...I found out we didn't have [a union], & that we weren't even allowed to unionize, I was honestly shocked & embarrassed for my home state of Maryland."

@govwesmoore.bsky.social & @senbillferg.bsky.social, listen to MD faculty & librarians. We ALL need collective bargaining rights
March 11, 2025 at 3:14 PM
@aftunion.bsky.social AFT Maryland prez Kenya Campbell defends public workers and #hhighered
March 10, 2025 at 10:36 PM
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We are fighting for the rights of ALL MD Public Higher Ed Faculty & librarians to collectively bargain!

Can you take a sec & write to @senbillferg.bsky.social @govwesmoore.bsky.social & other legislators to ask them to support our bill for ALL faculty & librarians? actionnetwork.org/letters/md-p...
MD Public Higher Ed Faculty & Librarians Need Collective Bargaining!
United Academics of Maryland (UAM) is fighting to secure collective bargaining rights for all faculty and librarians in Maryland's higher ed institutions. WHAT DOES THE BILL PROVIDE? This bill provi...
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March 10, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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uam-umd.bsky.social
By popular demand, we're turning office hours at Tawes into a Know Your Rights event.

All welcome!
February 28, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Sea of GLU Graduate labor Union @UMD. Great practice picket
February 26, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Inspired by the energy and solidarity on display today.
higheredlabor.bsky.social Higher Education Labor United (HELU) @higheredlabor.bsky.social · Feb 25
Join us TODAY at 1:30pm ET/12:30pm CT/11:30am MT/10:30am PT! Let's tell our legislators: 🎇 HANDS OFF our healthcare, research, jobs, and education! 🎇 See you in D.C. and online. Register: labor4highered.org/feb-25
@aaup.bsky.social @aftunion.bsky.social @phew-cwa.bsky.social @uaw.org
Hands off! Our healthcare, research, and jobs! Feb 25 D.C. and online, 1:30pm ET. Rally and press conference in DC. Online viewing party and national phone bank.
February 25, 2025 at 10:36 PM
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uam-umd.bsky.social
We know many of you are deeply concerned about what is happening right now in our country and its implications for you, your research, your community and family members, and our university.

Join us on Friday 2/7 at 3 pm for a UAM-UMD General Body Meeting!
February 3, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Happy to be with @aftunion.bsky.social Maryland prez Kenya Campbell!
uam-umd.bsky.social UAM-UMD @uam-umd.bsky.social · Jan 29
Been busy in Annapolis this week getting support for our collective bargain bill for ALL faculty & librarians in the USM system, Morgan State University, & St. Mary's College of Maryland!

Thanks to @aaup.bsky.social @aftunion.bsky.social @afthighered.bsky.social & @aftmaryland.bsky.social for help!
January 29, 2025 at 11:27 PM
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Reminder!

And note new starting time of 2pm!
Turtle in snow covered trees eating holiday cookie
December 5, 2024 at 3:02 PM
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uam-umd.bsky.social
The end of the semester is upon us and your union wants to celebrate and deliberate!

Come celebrate the last day of classes with a cookie swap!

Please drop by the Hornbake Library Basement (also known as the INFO Commons) on Monday, December 9 between 1 PM and 4 PM.
Image: Turtle eating cooking in snow covered trees. The end of the semester is upon us and your union wants to celebrate and deliberate! Come celebrate the last day of classes with a cookie swap! Please drop by the Hornbake Library Basement (also known as the INFO Commons) on Monday, December 9 between 1 PM and 4 PM.
December 3, 2024 at 2:48 PM
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VP @dmgreene.bsky.social: "The most obvious violation of shared governance is in front of you. A supermajority of UMD graduate workers have signed union cards w/ the Graduate Labor Union. Earlier this year, in the Maryland Senate our Dean of Graduate School said..." 1/2

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UAM-UMD VP Daniel Greene Addresses USM Board of Regents: "We are not the enemy but, on campus, we are treated like it" - United Academics of Maryland-University of Maryland (UAM-UMD)
Good morning. I am Daniel Greene, Associate Professor of Information in College Park, where I have worked for 7 years. Before that, I worked at a small startup called Microsoft. […]
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November 22, 2024 at 3:21 PM
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Interested in academic labor?

Gotta read this whole absolutely 🔥 speech the VP of our faculty union, @uam-umd.bsky.social, gave today in front of USM Board of Regents & UMD President.
dmgreene.bsky.social Dan Greene @dmgreene.bsky.social · Nov 22
Today I went to the USM Regents meeting and spoke for @uam-umd.bsky.social and in support of UMD's Graduate Labor Union, who have supermajority support and are seeking voluntary recognition. Our working conditions are learning conditions. The right is coming for us all, management must work with us.
Good morning. I am Daniel Greene, Associate Professor of Information in College Park, where I have worked for 7 years. Before that, I worked at a small startup called Microsoft. I train the data scientists who go on to firms like Lockheed or Accenture, or the feds. I am here to speak on shared governance, as the Vice President of United Academics of Maryland UMD, the union for all faculty. The CUSF survey on today's agenda today reveals broad dissatisfaction with shared governance. We push that button but nothing happens. This breeds resentment. Let me explain. The most obvious violation of shared governance is in front of you. A supermajority of UMD graduate workers have signed union cards with the Graduate Labor Union. Earlier this year, in the Maryland Senate, our Dean of the Graduate School said that graduate workers did not want a union and when pressed about the stack of signed cards next to him replied, "I don't know how those have been presented to students." As if a supermajority of grads suffered mass delusion. Lobbying against your own employees breeds resentment. For the sake of real shared governance, I urge UMD to recognize the graduate union. They just want to do their jobs. To afford rent, to have their visas delivered on time. You say they aren't real employees, but you're obviously hiring them to do the same work as me. From 2014 to 2022, UMD's enrollment increased 10.7%, while the amount of tenure track faculty fell 6.9% and graduate TA's rose 11%. Peer institutions from Pennsylvani to Florida to Michigan to Nebraska collectively bargain with graduate and faculty unions. Your refusal to live up to your peers' examples breeds resentment. Fighting our unions is just one way you create resentment. When I received tenure, UMD celebrated by canceling my health insurance and my first paycheck. This happened to about 20% of promotions. Including a colleague of mine in remission from cancer who had her medical care disrupted. Exceptional for tenured faculty like me, but not for grads, hundreds of whom miss paychecks each semester. Why? Because we balanced our budget by making clerical vacancies permanent. This disrespect to payroll staff, disproportionately Black women, breeds resentment among the faculty who rely upon them. This resentment is why, according to President Pines's climate survey, 70% of UMD faculty feel uncomfortable with the campus climate and 51%, including myself, have considered leaving UMD. 24% of faculty have experienced exclusionary conduct on campus. 36% of Black faculty. We keep one eye on the door because it's uncomfortable and nothing changes. We get a blue-ribbon committee and a slideshow. Vice President elect JD Vance has said, "the professors are the enemy." We expect more attacks. Who knows whether the NSF will continue to fund my $3 million grant to increase Black men's participation in data science. Right-wing activists have already targeted us, our students, and even President Pines and his family with vicious death threats. I am so sorry this happened, Dr. Pines. We want to help you build a stronger university where everyone belongs. Our grads seek union recognition to do just that. Our working conditions are students' learning conditions. We are not the enemy but, on campus, we are treated like it. Do the right thing. Bargain with grads now and faculty when we're ready. We should be able to sit down together at the same table, because if Florida or Texas are any guide they're coming for us all.
November 22, 2024 at 3:28 PM
My stalwart #history colleague!
uam-umd.bsky.social UAM-UMD @uam-umd.bsky.social · Nov 13
Hey UMD Faculty!

Have you signed our new Mission Statement yet and put it up on your office door?

Mircea Raianu from History has!

Do it here, now: actionnetwork.org/forms/237134...

@aftunion.bsky.social @afthighered.bsky.social @aaup.bsky.social
Mircea Raianu from History Department of U of Maryland with UAM-UMD mission statement on his office door.
November 13, 2024 at 3:24 PM
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UMD Faculty (& other unionists)-

Be sure to follow University of Maryland's AAUP chapter, the United Academics of Maryland-UMD!
uam-umd.bsky.social UAM-UMD @uam-umd.bsky.social · Nov 8
We are indeed here now!

And changing our name here to: @uam-umd.bsky.social too!

Spread the word.
November 8, 2024 at 4:07 PM