stronger together: the. aaup-aft affiliation

In the days after Labor Day, we’re also celebrating the recently finalized historic alliance between the AAUP and the American Federation of Teachers. Now, together, we represent more higher education workers than any other union. Our game-changing partnership brings together the AAUP’s academic expertise and the AFT’s power and reach, and creates a movement with the strength of hundreds of thousands of higher education workers. Together, we will be stronger in our work to dismantle systemic racism and fight white supremacy; we vow to bring a racial equity lens to all aspects of all of our work. Together, we will be more effective at beating back outrageous legislative intrusions into the academy—intrusions that obliterate the academic freedom needed for effective teaching, research and free inquiry. Together, we will be united in our efforts to ensure that higher education plays its essential role as a public good in a democracy.
Join or renew your AAUP membership today.
Because the affiliation builds on our successful joint organizing work, we anticipate bringing even more academic workers into our movement and being able to disseminate AAUP’s essential work on academic freedom and shared governance more broadly throughout the higher education community. We will be working together to organize a more powerful academic labor movement around our principles on campuses, in statehouses, and in Congress.
We’ll be fighting with you and for you. It’s an exciting time and we have never been stronger.
Join or renew today.