Membership education & trainings on anti-racism

The membership education sub-group of the Anti-Discrimination Working Group works to empower every steward and organizer in our union to facilitate anti-racism and prison abolition conversations and generate racial justice demands in their department. Our desired...

Working for Racial Justice in Community & Coalition

Our Anti-Discrimination Working Group works to promote racial justice both within the university and beyond, through organizing in coalition with other students, staff, faculty, labor unions, community organizers, and neighborhood groups. By building power and...

Annual Equity Surveys

In 2018, we won an annual equity survey that is jointly developed and administered between our union and university administration. Unlike other climate surveys, we have meaningful ownership over both the content and results of our equity survey and are thus able to...

Empowering Prevention & Inclusive Communities (EPIC)

In 2018, we fought for and won one of the most innovative sexual harassment prevention programs in the country — the Empowering Prevention and Inclusive Communities (EPIC) training program. EPIC is an interactive peer-to-peer training, jointly run between our union...

Taking on Sexual Harassment in Academia

In 2018, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine (NASEM) released a report showing that rates of sexual harassment and assault are pervasive throughout academia – second, in fact, only to the U.S. military. In equity surveys we conducted during...