The Campaign for Worker Solidarity
We are writing to you as members of the New School Chapter of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP-TNS), a group affiliated with a national organization. Though we are not a union, we are an advocacy group that represents both full and part-time faculty, as well as other educators on campus. We are also a member of the New School Labor Coalition, which has been instrumental in shaping the moment of faculty-student-staff solidarity we are now in. Our mission is to ensure that The New School is attentive to the needs of the most vulnerable and marginalized, and we support a people-centered approach to the immense challenges facing our community in moments of crisis.
AAUP-TNS, as part of the New School Labor Coalition, stands in solidarity with our unionized colleagues as they negotiate new contracts with the university.
The challenges of responding to the dynamic nature of the COVID-19 pandemic are immense, and we commend the University’s COVID Coordination Group and the UFS Summer Leadership Committee for its work in ensuring a safe return to campus. As educators, we feel strongly that teaching and learning work best when conducted in-person. At the same time, we recognize the anxiety and risk caused by the highly transmissible character of the Delta variant, as well as the deteriorating efficacy of vaccines over time and high transmission probabilities in classroom settings.
We commit to teach freedom, and join our brothers and sisters in the streets, in the classroom, and in every conceivable location to work for abolition of the carceral state, and for a just world where Black lives matter.
AAUP-TNS stands in solidarity with New York University’s AAUP Chapter after Zoom unilaterally pulls the plug on academic event.
AAUP-TNS is committed to working alongside our comrades in The New School Labor Coalition to turn The New School into the workplace and university we need and deserve.