UMD Graduate Labor Union
@umd-glu.bsky.social
We are a democratic, mass-participation organization of grad workers fighting for the respect, compensation, and security we deserve.
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Struck this morning by how the win wasn’t from the UC system itself pushing back—it was its worker power through *unions* and aligned groups like @aaup.org defending UC interests, even though admin itself wasn’t.
There’s some kind of lesson here
There’s some kind of lesson here
One reason why elite schools (Columbia, Brown, Cornell) caving to Trump’s illegal impoundment and extortion is so galling — a betrayal, really — is that they would have won had they fought. By giving up, they guaranteed every other school will have to fight harder.
Judge bars Trump from immediately cutting funding to the University of California | CNN Politics
The Trump administration cannot immediately cut federal funding to the University of California or issue fines against the school system over claims it allows antisemitism or other forms of discrimina...
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November 15, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Struck this morning by how the win wasn’t from the UC system itself pushing back—it was its worker power through *unions* and aligned groups like @aaup.org defending UC interests, even though admin itself wasn’t.
There’s some kind of lesson here
There’s some kind of lesson here
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The majority of UMD faculty are nontenure researchers on federal funding. Hundreds of our public servants are threatened by MAGA science cuts. We're asking our bosses for simple things to keep people whole or provide dignified exits.
If you work at UMD or have worked with us, please sign and share
If you work at UMD or have worked with us, please sign and share
Protect PTK Researchers at UMD
Higher education is under attack from a federal administration that seeks to undermine our research infrastructure for political gain. Faculty at UMD conducting crucial research in fields like climate...
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November 11, 2025 at 4:17 PM
The majority of UMD faculty are nontenure researchers on federal funding. Hundreds of our public servants are threatened by MAGA science cuts. We're asking our bosses for simple things to keep people whole or provide dignified exits.
If you work at UMD or have worked with us, please sign and share
If you work at UMD or have worked with us, please sign and share
UMD admin, take notice: 1000 grads came out to our Majority March on Oct 1 to say that we're done playing by your rules. Negotiate with us now, or we WILL shut it down!
Shout out to our allies @umdydsa.bsky.social @uam-umd.bsky.social MD/DC AFL-CIO and others for joining us!
Shout out to our allies @umdydsa.bsky.social @uam-umd.bsky.social MD/DC AFL-CIO and others for joining us!
![A graduate worker wearing a high-vis vest holds a sign which reads "Honk if you [heart symbol] unions". In the distance, grad workers march along the sidewalk](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:os7ezx2vou36qu4k6xwbinxu/bafkreih5yx6hornxv4lsrg3e4glmhu2kdsufuowajpzydsox5i7maa2hiy@jpeg)
October 3, 2025 at 3:12 PM
UMD admin, take notice: 1000 grads came out to our Majority March on Oct 1 to say that we're done playing by your rules. Negotiate with us now, or we WILL shut it down!
Shout out to our allies @umdydsa.bsky.social @uam-umd.bsky.social MD/DC AFL-CIO and others for joining us!
Shout out to our allies @umdydsa.bsky.social @uam-umd.bsky.social MD/DC AFL-CIO and others for joining us!
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"At least 200 red-clad members of UMD Graduate Labor Union participated in its Majority March for Union Recognition at the University of Maryland on Wednesday, demanding that the school recognize them and begin bargaining."
https://www.baltimoresun.com/2025/10/01/graduate-workers-union-rally/
https://www.baltimoresun.com/2025/10/01/graduate-workers-union-rally/
University of Maryland grad workers rally for union recognition
Graduate workers at the University of Maryland rallied in College Park demanding union recognition, citing low pay and limited protections compared to the county’s cost of living.
www.baltimoresun.com
October 2, 2025 at 9:15 PM
"At least 200 red-clad members of UMD Graduate Labor Union participated in its Majority March for Union Recognition at the University of Maryland on Wednesday, demanding that the school recognize them and begin bargaining."
https://www.baltimoresun.com/2025/10/01/graduate-workers-union-rally/
https://www.baltimoresun.com/2025/10/01/graduate-workers-union-rally/
UMD admin are still ignoring our democratic demand for union recognition while our working conditions are actively getting worse. On October 1st, 1-3PM, grad workers all across campus are marching to show that we’re not backing down – we want RECOGNITION NOW! RSVP here: forms.gle/jocuj9awDCtT...
September 1, 2025 at 5:59 PM
UMD admin are still ignoring our democratic demand for union recognition while our working conditions are actively getting worse. On October 1st, 1-3PM, grad workers all across campus are marching to show that we’re not backing down – we want RECOGNITION NOW! RSVP here: forms.gle/jocuj9awDCtT...
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The attack on student unions is an attack - in concert with Trump - on the better version of the university we are fighting for.
Thank you for covering our and @hgsuuaw.bsky.social's contract campaigns against corporate universities.
Thank you for covering our and @hgsuuaw.bsky.social's contract campaigns against corporate universities.
As two of the nation’s largest private graduate student unions fight for new contracts, their members have been among the most vulnerable to the president’s attacks on universities.
Trump’s War on Higher Ed Comes to the Bargaining Table
As two of the nation’s largest private graduate student unions fight for new contracts, their members have been among the most vulnerable to the president’s attacks on universities.
www.thenation.com
August 22, 2025 at 12:43 AM
The attack on student unions is an attack - in concert with Trump - on the better version of the university we are fighting for.
Thank you for covering our and @hgsuuaw.bsky.social's contract campaigns against corporate universities.
Thank you for covering our and @hgsuuaw.bsky.social's contract campaigns against corporate universities.
UMD is once again stealing grad wages - 100+ grads across multiple colleges and departments are missing pay for their work this summer. Yesterday, we went to demand answers from admin and remind them that UMD works because we do and wage theft is illegal!
July 18, 2025 at 3:43 PM
UMD is once again stealing grad wages - 100+ grads across multiple colleges and departments are missing pay for their work this summer. Yesterday, we went to demand answers from admin and remind them that UMD works because we do and wage theft is illegal!
Congrats to Penn postdocs on winning their union! 🎉
July 18, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Congrats to Penn postdocs on winning their union! 🎉
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"Organizing and building collective power together as international scholars is the best way for us to achieve a fairer workplace and less precarious lives."
— @rapup-uaw.bsky.social
www.thedp.com/article/2025...
— @rapup-uaw.bsky.social
www.thedp.com/article/2025...
Albane Thery and Geronimo Velazquez | International postdocs and research associates are ready to vote “yes” for our union
Guest columnists Albane Thery and Geronimo Velazquez argue that unionization can help address the specific challenges faced by international Postdocs and Research Associates at Penn.
www.thedp.com
July 15, 2025 at 1:06 PM
"Organizing and building collective power together as international scholars is the best way for us to achieve a fairer workplace and less precarious lives."
— @rapup-uaw.bsky.social
www.thedp.com/article/2025...
— @rapup-uaw.bsky.social
www.thedp.com/article/2025...
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The cynicism is appalling, even for Columbia.
We call on our fellow workers in higher ed: sign the open letter to CU & pledge not to replace our labor. tinyurl.com/core-open-letter
Let's fight together for more just and democratic workplaces for all
We call on our fellow workers in higher ed: sign the open letter to CU & pledge not to replace our labor. tinyurl.com/core-open-letter
Let's fight together for more just and democratic workplaces for all
Open letter to Columbia administration on replacing union labor in the Core Curriculum
Here is the open letter we are asking our allies in higher education to sign on to. We will periodically update signatories in the document. It would be very helpful to us if you can provide your full...
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July 12, 2025 at 9:36 PM
The cynicism is appalling, even for Columbia.
We call on our fellow workers in higher ed: sign the open letter to CU & pledge not to replace our labor. tinyurl.com/core-open-letter
Let's fight together for more just and democratic workplaces for all
We call on our fellow workers in higher ed: sign the open letter to CU & pledge not to replace our labor. tinyurl.com/core-open-letter
Let's fight together for more just and democratic workplaces for all
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Columbia is replacing union labor as we negotiate a new contract.
Admin is emailing other universities to recruit teachers, while refusing to reappoint returning SWC instructors, who still don't know if they will teach or get paid in September.
This is textbook union busting
Admin is emailing other universities to recruit teachers, while refusing to reappoint returning SWC instructors, who still don't know if they will teach or get paid in September.
This is textbook union busting
July 12, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Columbia is replacing union labor as we negotiate a new contract.
Admin is emailing other universities to recruit teachers, while refusing to reappoint returning SWC instructors, who still don't know if they will teach or get paid in September.
This is textbook union busting
Admin is emailing other universities to recruit teachers, while refusing to reappoint returning SWC instructors, who still don't know if they will teach or get paid in September.
This is textbook union busting
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UC-AFT joins the call for the immediate release of Professor Jonathan Caravello, who was beaten and abducted by ICE on Thursday at a raid in Ventura County. @cfaunited.bsky.social
July 13, 2025 at 2:08 AM
UC-AFT joins the call for the immediate release of Professor Jonathan Caravello, who was beaten and abducted by ICE on Thursday at a raid in Ventura County. @cfaunited.bsky.social
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“These politically motivated attacks jeopardized medical and scientific progress and threatened the jobs of researchers studying climate change, renewable energy, cancer, viral pandemics, heart disease, diabetes, and Alzheimer’s,” said Brandon Mancilla, Director of @uawregion9a.bsky.social
June 17, 2025 at 4:36 PM
“These politically motivated attacks jeopardized medical and scientific progress and threatened the jobs of researchers studying climate change, renewable energy, cancer, viral pandemics, heart disease, diabetes, and Alzheimer’s,” said Brandon Mancilla, Director of @uawregion9a.bsky.social
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What does 18,000+ brave signatories look like standing together in massive solidarity with the #NIH heroes of the historic Bethesda Declaration??...
Find out by adding YOUR NAME to our #NIHLove letter here! -
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#StandUpForScience
#BethesdaDeclaration
#StopTrump
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#StandUpForScience
#BethesdaDeclaration
#StopTrump
ADD YOUR NAME: Sign the Open Letter in Support of NIH Staff
Join the courageous and committed National Institutes of Health (NIH) public servants by adding your name now.
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June 11, 2025 at 11:10 AM
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Find out by adding YOUR NAME to our #NIHLove letter here! -
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#StandUpForScience
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This isn’t just about David.
It’s about the right to organize. The right to speak out.
The right to be safe. The right to be treated like a human.
From this rally in Chicago to actions across the country—we won’t back down.
#FreeDavidEndRaids
It’s about the right to organize. The right to speak out.
The right to be safe. The right to be treated like a human.
From this rally in Chicago to actions across the country—we won’t back down.
#FreeDavidEndRaids
June 9, 2025 at 5:57 PM
This isn’t just about David.
It’s about the right to organize. The right to speak out.
The right to be safe. The right to be treated like a human.
From this rally in Chicago to actions across the country—we won’t back down.
#FreeDavidEndRaids
It’s about the right to organize. The right to speak out.
The right to be safe. The right to be treated like a human.
From this rally in Chicago to actions across the country—we won’t back down.
#FreeDavidEndRaids
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"More than 300 staffers signed a letter to the NIH director urging him to stop politically motivated cuts and delays to research grants."
@nihfellowsunited.bsky.social
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/06/09/m...
@nihfellowsunited.bsky.social
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/06/09/m...
‘Unrecognizable and highly toxic’: NIH staffers speak out ahead of Senate hearing on budget cuts - The Boston Globe
More than 300 staffers signed a letter to the NIH director urging him to stop politically motivated cuts to research grants.
www.bostonglobe.com
June 9, 2025 at 6:25 PM
"More than 300 staffers signed a letter to the NIH director urging him to stop politically motivated cuts and delays to research grants."
@nihfellowsunited.bsky.social
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/06/09/m...
@nihfellowsunited.bsky.social
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/06/09/m...
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Read what two Postdocs have to say about Penn choosing to fight its own researchers forming a union in a recent op-ed in @inquirer.com www.inquirer.com/opinion/comm...
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Postdocs: Penn is preventing a vote that would protect the workers who help it succeed | Opinion
Penn's postdoctoral workers and research associates want to unionize — like the grad student workers did. But the university is putting obstacles in their way, say Marshall Padilla and Emily Perkins.
www.inquirer.com
June 4, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Read what two Postdocs have to say about Penn choosing to fight its own researchers forming a union in a recent op-ed in @inquirer.com www.inquirer.com/opinion/comm...
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Tell ACLU-D.C. executives to stop union busting! actionnetwork.org/letters/c70b...
Tell ACLU-D.C. Management to Stop Their Union-Busting Tactics!
One week before Thanksgiving, one week after a union action, and one year into bargaining our first contract, ACLU-D.C. management unlawfully laid off two union members, or nearly 15% of our bargainin...
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May 30, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Tell ACLU-D.C. executives to stop union busting! actionnetwork.org/letters/c70b...
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Operational Student Employees at Western Washington University are ON STRIKE demanding union recognition and a fair contract. Support OSEs by joining the picket lines and contributing to the hardship fund! givebutter.com/WAWUOSE @uaw.org
May 29, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Operational Student Employees at Western Washington University are ON STRIKE demanding union recognition and a fair contract. Support OSEs by joining the picket lines and contributing to the hardship fund! givebutter.com/WAWUOSE @uaw.org
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“We’re asking for the same rights as our peers — basic working protections for the jobs we do that Western depends on, and that enables us to work our way through an undergraduate education which is getting harder and harder," said worker Mathew Woorden.
www.bellinghamherald.com/news/local/a...
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Campus services disrupted as 1,200 WWU student employees walk off the job
University administrators say they will not recognize the bargaining unit without legislation requiring it.
www.bellinghamherald.com
May 29, 2025 at 4:27 PM
“We’re asking for the same rights as our peers — basic working protections for the jobs we do that Western depends on, and that enables us to work our way through an undergraduate education which is getting harder and harder," said worker Mathew Woorden.
www.bellinghamherald.com/news/local/a...
www.bellinghamherald.com/news/local/a...
We signed the letter featured in this article with our colleagues at UIUC, Stanford, Purdue, USC & others to call on our universities to reject the weaponization of "national security" to target Chinese academics. [1/4]
“Blaming China has become a bipartisan strategy.”
Trump Is Coming for Chinese Students. Who Will Protect Them?
Universities should reject Republicans’ requests for detailed information about Chinese students, academic worker unions said.
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May 22, 2025 at 7:26 PM
We signed the letter featured in this article with our colleagues at UIUC, Stanford, Purdue, USC & others to call on our universities to reject the weaponization of "national security" to target Chinese academics. [1/4]
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Today, NIH Fellows United and our colleagues walked out of NIH Director Jayanta Bhattacharya’s Town Hall. Dr. Bhattacharya's tenure at NIH has been marked with damaging cuts to NIH personnel and biomedical research funding.
May 19, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Today, NIH Fellows United and our colleagues walked out of NIH Director Jayanta Bhattacharya’s Town Hall. Dr. Bhattacharya's tenure at NIH has been marked with damaging cuts to NIH personnel and biomedical research funding.
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A thread: NIH Fellows United is committed to showing up, even when leadership won’t. 🧪
May 9, 2025 at 6:57 PM
A thread: NIH Fellows United is committed to showing up, even when leadership won’t. 🧪
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BREAKING: Rümeysa, our union sister who was snatched by ICE, is free today. We stood up for our union family and demanded justice! When you mess with one of us, you mess with all of us. #4the1st ✊🏻✊🏼✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿
May 9, 2025 at 10:41 PM
BREAKING: Rümeysa, our union sister who was snatched by ICE, is free today. We stood up for our union family and demanded justice! When you mess with one of us, you mess with all of us. #4the1st ✊🏻✊🏼✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿
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BREAKING: 1,600 post docs at Johns Hopkins University are unionizing with @UAW.
April 24, 2025 at 8:44 PM
BREAKING: 1,600 post docs at Johns Hopkins University are unionizing with @UAW.