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Quality higher education and the right to collective bargaining are essential to building a more just, democratic and equal society. All teachers, graduate employees, researchers, technicians, support and service staff and construction and building maintenance workers—whether they do full-time, part-time, temporary or contract work—deserve the right to lift themselves from poverty and to improve their lives and the institutions in which they work through collective bargaining.

Over the past decade, access to affordable, quality higher education has diminished and workers’ freedom to form unions and bargain collectively for living wages has eroded. This is a direct result of the cost-cutting, corporate model of academic management that stifles education’s historic mission to enrich community life, advance social justice, guarantee academic freedom and provide opportunities for individual fulfillment.

We need a clear set of principles to guide the behavior and treatment of higher-education institutions towards workers. Please take action right now: Sign the Declaration of Principles and send the letter below to university presidents NOW.