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Student Workers of Columbia

@swcolumbia.bsky.social

A Union for Instructors, TAs and Researchers at Columbia University | UAW Local 2710 | RTs ≠ endorsements. Join our community supporters' mailing list: tinyurl.com/community-supporters

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Student Workers of Columbia@swcolumbia.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Great article from the Spectator about SWC’s fight for better health coverage, with interviews from our members! 🧵 www.columbiaspectator.com/the-eye/2026...

As SWC-UAW Strike Looms, Student Workers Take on Medical Debt, Allege Failing Health Care Coverage - Columbia Daily Spectator

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Jacobin@jacobinmag.bsky.social · 6mo ago

In response to what they describe as foot-dragging by the administration in contract negotiations, student workers at Columbia University have authorized a strike. We spoke to some of them about their demands.

Columbia Student Workers Are Poised to Strike

In response to what they describe as foot-dragging by the administration in contract negotiations, student workers at Columbia University have authorized a strike. We spoke to some of them about their...

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Student Workers of Columbia@swcolumbia.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Hind’s Hall protesters win a legal victory, but the fight continues! A NY State Supreme Court judge vacated Columbia’s “arbitrary and capricious” discipline against 22 student activists accused of occupying Hind’s Hall in 2024, including multi-year suspensions, expulsions, and degree revocations.

Student Workers of Columbia@swcolumbia.bsky.social · 6mo ago

BREAKING: Columbia student kidnapped by DHS! Early this morning, DHS agents entered a Columbia Residential building under the guise of searching for a “missing person” and abducted a student without any intervention. This took place just one day after our ICE off Campus rally. 🧵

Student Workers of Columbia@swcolumbia.bsky.social · 6mo ago

We’re encouraged by the many Columbia affiliates speaking out in this letter against the University’s repression of Palestinian voices. As we mobilize for a strike, SWC remains committed to the fight for academic freedom for all members of our community. www.columbiaspectator.com/opinion/2026...

Open Letter: Toward Real Freedom of Expression

<i>This letter was </i><a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/DR5L44WCvuj/?img_index=2" rel=""><i>distributed</i></a><i> and signed in December 2025. Still, we feel that the issue it discusses remains h...

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Student Workers of Columbia@swcolumbia.bsky.social · 6mo ago

SWC has opened a Strike Authorization Vote (SAV)! After almost a year of bargaining, it’s clear that Columbia won’t budge on core workplace issues unless we withhold our labor through a strike—we’re ready to ramp up the pressure!🧵

Emily Mazo@emilymazo.bsky.social · 6mo ago

@swcolumbia.bsky.social has just given Columbia our contract proposal on AI- our main demands are that student workers cannot be replaced by AI tools, nor can we be forced to use them in teaching or research (or retaliated against for refusing). Looking forward to their response on Friday 😇

Miriam Posner@miriamposner.com · 6mo ago

BLEAK. Bleak. I’d been paying attention to Columbia selling out its governance to the Trump admin, not so much its stance on AI. www.columbiaspectator.com/opinion/2026...

Last month, University of Wisconsin-Madison Chancellor Jennifer Mnookin approved a proposal to establish a College of Computing and Artificial Intelligence funded by private corporations and philanthropy. Mnookin said the move was a response to the inevitable creep of artificial intelligence into all disciplines of academia. Rather than reject AI, she envisioned a university that capitalized on this change by making artificial intelligence a "hub" connecting the humanities to computer science.
AAUP@aaup.org · 6mo ago

💥💥💥 Congrats to Columbia AAUP on successfully standing up against ICE recruitment on campus. Let's keep organizing and go all out to get ICE off our campuses. @swcolumbia.bsky.social @aaupcu.bsky.social

Following faculty pushback to Customs and Border Protection recruitment listing, SPS removes all external postings from career opportunities website

Following faculty pushback for listing an external Customs and Border Protection recruitment event on its career opportunities <a href="https://careerdesignlab.sps.columbia.edu/events/" rel="">web pag...

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Daniel José Older@djolder.bsky.social · 6mo ago

DOCTOR Rümeysa Öztürk has earned her PhD!!

Hi everyone, I earned my PhD from the Department of Child Study and Human Development. My studies, research, and professional work focus on how positive media use among children and young people… |...

Hi everyone, I earned my PhD from the Department of Child Study and Human Development. My studies, research, and professional work focus on how positive media use among children and young people ca...

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Student Workers of Columbia@swcolumbia.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Student Workers spotted Public Safety Investigator Donald Gannon watching them swipe into a building where we were holding a weekly meeting. We won’t stand for this kind of intimidation: SWC is mobilizing to protect our community from Public Safety surveillance.

Student Workers of Columbia@swcolumbia.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Thank you for speaking up, @jfrejnyc.bsky.social! This further restriction on protest is a major threat to our union’s ability to picket and call for solidarity rallies outside of Columbia’s gates. We are staunchly against this proposed measure!

Jews For Racial & Economic Justice Action@jfrejnyc.bsky.social · 7mo ago

The right to protest in this country is sacrosanct & must be protected. It is especially irresponsible to offer an authoritarian government still more tools that can be used to criminalize protest. Read our joint statement opposing the anti-democratic buffer zone bills introduced in the NYC Council.

Student Workers of Columbia@swcolumbia.bsky.social · 7mo ago

SWC is proud to introduce two UAW-endorsed New York State Assembly candidates: Eli Northrup (distr. 69) and Conrad Blackburn (distr. 70)! At our town hall on Feb. 9, you can meet the candidates, ask questions, and connect with other attendees from the community.

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Student Workers of Columbia@swcolumbia.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Columbia is using loopholes in resident advisors contracts to force them to participate in programming designed to appease Trump. This is a labor issue. www.columbiaspectator.com/news/2026/01...

Columbia mandated RAs to lead a new pluralism initiative. RAs said it made them political pawns.

<html><head><meta charset="utf-8"><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>Columbia mandated RAs to lead a new pluralism initiative. RAs said it made them political p...

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PSC-CUNY@psc-cuny.org · 7mo ago

𝗣𝗦𝗖 𝗖𝗨𝗡𝗬 𝗖𝗲𝗹𝗲𝗯𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗥𝗲𝗶𝗻𝘀𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗼𝗳 𝗧𝗵𝗿𝗲𝗲 𝗠𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗙𝗶𝗿𝗲𝗱 𝗙𝗼𝘂𝗿 Read full statement here: psc-cuny.org/news-events/...

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Student Workers of Columbia@swcolumbia.bsky.social · 7mo ago

We are also fighting to get ICE out of our workplace as we negotiate a new contract, and Columbia is stonewalling our demands to protect non-citizens. We have had enough of these institutions' feckless complicity.

UChicago AAUP@uchicagoaaup.bsky.social · 7mo ago

We reiterate our demand, alongside our siblings in GSU-UE, @nationalnurses.bsky.social, Faculty Forward, and the Lab School Faculty Association, that the University of Chicago act immediately to exclude ICE and CBP from all buildings without a judicial warrant.

National Nurses United@nationalnurses.bsky.social · 7mo ago

We're horrified & outraged: Immigration agents have once again committed cold-blooded murder of a public observer who posed no threat to them. This time, they've executed a fellow nurse, Alex Pretti. We demand justice and accountability. Abolish ICE, now! https://bit.ly/4big77u

National Nurses United outraged by murder of VA registered nurse by immigration agents, demand abolition of ICE

NNU issued the following statement in response to the murder of Alex Pretti, RN: “The nation’s nurses, who make it their mission to care for and save human lives, are horrified and outraged that immig...

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UAW@uaw.org · 7mo ago

ICYMI: The UAW stands in solidarity with the people of Minnesota, including hundreds of UAW members, who are standing up and fighting back against the federal government’s abuses and attacks on the working class. ow.ly/NVSA50Y0PGo

UAW Statement in Solidarity with the Fight for Justice in Minnesota - UAW | United Automobile, Aerospace and Agricultural Implement Workers of America

The UAW stands in solidarity with the people of Minnesota, including hundreds of UAW members, who are standing up and fighting back against the federal government’s abuses and attacks on the working c...

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Student Workers of Columbia@swcolumbia.bsky.social · 7mo ago

After cutting almost every grad teaching job this summer, Columbia has notified department Chairs that one of the last remaining opportunities for PhD candidates to teach their own classes is “on hold” for AY 26-27 and likely to be permanently cut. The new union-busting playbook.

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Bright D Limm 임대중@bdlimm.myatproto.social · 7mo ago

🧵 by @swcolumbia.bsky.social ( @uaw.org Local 2710). These folks are facing both political repression and corporatist union-busting, in a style of polished cruelty that only the Ivy League could create. Learn more about their conditions and campaigns here: StudentWorkersOfColumbia.com

Student Workers of Columbia - UAW Local 2710

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Student Workers of Columbia@swcolumbia.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Columbia could afford to pay all workers more than a living wage without liquidating any endowment principal or even using a larger annual percentage of endowment proceeds. CU admin made the choice to spend money on buying real estate and overcompensating top executives instead. (4/7)

Student Workers of Columbia@swcolumbia.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Thank you, The Blue and White, for this insightful piece. Bargaining "has shed light, not only on the lengths Columbia will go to in order to suppress the full breadth of demands from the Union, but also on the particular vulnerability of the student-worker identity."

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani@mayor.nyc.gov · 8mo ago

Last year's arrest of Mahmoud Khalil was more than just a chilling act of political repression, it was an attack on all of our constitutional rights. Now, as the crackdown on pro-Palestinian free speech continues, Mahmoud is being threatened with rearrest. Mahmoud is free—and must remain free.