Latest posts tagged with #TheCTDifference on Bluesky
Recruit, retain & reinvest; tonight, #union members in #SEBAC urged #GovNedLamont prioritize contracts for all #CTStateWorkers to deliver #TheCTDifference for all residents: www.facebook.com/share/p/1JJt... @aft.org @afthighered.bsky.social @afthealthcare.bsky.social @aftteach.bsky.social @aaup.org
Happening now: #union members urge #CTGeneralAssembly finance cmte lawmakers to embrace @ctforall.bsky.social's #StandUpCT agenda proposal to generate revenue needed to preserve & protect #TheCTDifference. @aft.org @aftteach.bsky.social @afthighered.bsky.social @aaup.org
"The part-time teachers in the CSCU system deserve job security and the dignity provided by allowing them to heal and tend to their loved ones when necessary." #TheCTDifference @csuaaup.bsky.social
"Let's be clear, the strain on higher education is not a failure of our students or our faculty and staff. It is a result of policy choices. Connecticut has the resources to do better." #thectdifference #FundOurFutureCT #FundOurFuture @aft.org @afthighered.bsky.social @aaup.org
Happening now: @csuaaup.bsky.social, #UniversityHealthProfessionals & #UCHCAAUP leaders testify before the #CTGeneralAssembly’s budget-writing committee urging more funding for CT’s public #highered programs. #TheCTDifference @aft.org @afthighered.bsky.social @aaup.org
Happening now: @uconnaaup.bsky.social, #BackusNurses leaders urge lawmakers on #CTGeneralAssembly’s #HigherEd cmte to stopgap x’d federal Grad PLUS loans, empower RNs & #HospitalStaff to seek advanced careers. #TheCTDifference @aft.org @afthighered.bsky.social @afthealthcare.bsky.social @aaup.org
“We’re educating Connecticut’s workforce, we’re educating Connecticut’s leaders and we want to make sure that education is affordable.” #TheCTDifference @csuaaup.bsky.social
“Teachers also should have confidence that making a comment on social media that someone doesn’t like can be a career-ending decision” #TheCTDifference
"We are hopeful that the governor will make good on his commitment to each local table and deliver fair and fully funded contracts without any further delay." #TheCTDifference @aft.org
"...if the university is asking instructors and professors to teach the same way in the classroom with fewer resources and with less support, they're living in a fantasy world." #TheCTDifference @uconnaaup.bsky.social
Demanding workplace policies that make #TheCTDifference possible; a @uconnaaup.bsky.social member called out @uconn.bsky.social administrators’ refusal to make #PaidLeave accessible & equitable for faculty growing their families: aftct.org/2025/11/12/s... @aft.org @afthighered.bsky.social @aaup.org
"We have so little voice in even offering ideas and feedback. It is concerning to everyone that the possibility of layoffs has been put on the table..." #thectdifference @aft.org @afthighered.bsky.social @aaup.org
“It also sends a clear message to (Gov. Ned) Lamont that he should take negotiations seriously and offer honorable contracts that reflect workforce needs beyond one year." #thectdifference @aft.org
“Every day, we keep our communities running — protecting the public and providing the essential services we all count on,” #TheCTDifference
"As Professors Jeffrey Dudas and @djpressman.bsky.social remind readers, the university must begin listening to the academic departments, faculty, and student-employees, who are 'the beating hearts of the @uconn.bsky.social community.'” #TheCTDifference @uconnaaup.bsky.social
"Our main responsibility is to the state and to provide these teachers for the state. So it would be very short sighted of the administration to eliminate these programs.” #TheCTDifference @uconnaaup.bsky.social
Quality, affordable public #HigherEd & healthcare fulfill dreams & promote healing. Fair, honorable #union contracts for #CTStateWorkers are essential to delivering both. #TheCTDifference @aft.org @afthighered.bsky.social @afthealthcare.bsky.social @aaup.org
“reject the Trump administration's so-called compact, which asks colleges to make sweeping changes to policies and practices to align them with the president's agenda.”
#TheCTDifference @csuaaup.bsky.social
“We also wanted to address a frustrating narrative we’ve been hearing more frequently—that Yale has somehow been exempted from the funding freezes and disruptions affecting other institutions,” #TheCTDifference @yaleaaup.bsky.social
“[Without guaranteed paid family leave,] we get worse educators in the classroom, less creative and less productive scientists in the lab, unreliable committee members and poor decision makers,” #TheCTDifference @uconnaaup.bsky.social
“CSU-AAUP, the union for full and part-time faculty at the four Connecticut State Universities, is currently in a contract battle that has already been drawn out comically long.” #TheCTDifference @csuaaup.bsky.social
"Even when we’re not sick, or having babies, or wondering whether our classes will be cut at the last moment, the ordinary mental load of working at multiple universities is exhausting. And it’s making me worse at my job." #TheCTDifference @csuaaup.bsky.social
“We don’t need a cookie cutter budget approach that drains funds from UConn and passes the money instead to consultants who shop their same ideas from one university to the next.” #TheCTDifference @uconnaaup.bsky.social
UConn-AAUP is excited to be in Stamford today talking with members and organizing for a stronger UConn #thectdifference
“This is how unions win; we show up, we demand change and we stand together,” #TheCTDifference @uconnaaup.bsky.social
Good professors leave UConn for a lack of family leave and resources #TheCTDifference @uconnaaup.bsky.social
All UConn employees deserve to know where they stand on concerns such as pay and working conditions.
#TheCTDifference @uconnaaup.bsky.social @uconngeu.bsky.social
#TheCTDifference. @aft.org @aftacademics.bsky.social @afthighered.bsky.social @aaup.org @uconnaaup.bsky.social @higheredlabor.bsky.social
#TheCTDifference. @aft.org @aftacademics.bsky.social @afthighered.bsky.social @aaup.org @uconnaaup.bsky.social @higheredlabor.bsky.social
#TheCTDifference. @aft.org @aftacademics.bsky.social @afthighered.bsky.social @aaup.org @uconnaaup.bsky.social @sarahhird.bsky.social @higheredlabor.bsky.social
