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  • Your Weingarten Rights Turned 43 Today!

    Forty-three years ago, on Feb. 19, 1975, the Supreme Court ruled that an employee has the right to request union representation in any meeting that she or he feels could result in discipline or termination. You Are Being Asked Questions That Might Lead To Disciplinary Action: What Do You Do? If you believe that discipline will Read more

  • Wednesday Wisdom: Louis Brandeis On The Need For Strong Labor Unions

    Wednesday Wisdom: Louis Brandeis On The Need For Strong Labor Unions

    “Strong, responsible unions are essential to industrial fair play.  Without them the labor bargain is wholly one-sided.  The parties to the labor contract must be nearly equal in strength if justice is to be worked out, and this means that the workers must be organized and that their organizations must be recognized by employers as Read more

  • Wednesday Wisdom: Albert Einstein on Academic Freedom

    Wednesday Wisdom: Albert Einstein on Academic Freedom

    By academic freedom I understand the right to search for truth and to publish and teach what one holds to be true. This right implies also duty: one must not conceal any part of what one has recognized to be true. It is evident that any restriction on academic freedom acts in such a way Read more

  • General Membership Meeting on September 27th at 3:30pm

    General Membership Meeting on September 27th at 3:30pm

    The next AAUP-UC general membership meeting is Wednesday, September 27th at 3:30pm in the Newman Center, following the Town Hall. Refreshments will be served at 3:30pm and the meeting will begin at 3:45pm. Please take a moment to mark your calendars and save the date for this meeting. Hope to see you there! Read more

  • Samuel Gompers On The Significance Labor Day

    Samuel Gompers On The Significance Labor Day

    Labor Day is the day conceded by no one class or set of people to another: it is the day of the workers, secured by the workers for the workers, and for all. – Samuel Gompers, President of the American Federation of Labor. Published in the New York Times September 4, 1910.   Read more

  • The Supreme Court on Academic Freedom

    The Supreme Court on Academic Freedom

    “Our Nation is deeply committed to safeguarding academic freedom, which is of transcendent value to all of us, and not merely to the teachers concerned. That freedom is therefore a special concern of the First Amendment, which does not tolerate laws that cast a pall of orthodoxy over the classroom.” – Keyishian v. Board of Read more

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