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The problem

University of Alaska (UA) workers have suffered years of crushing inflation offset by only the most pathetic “raises.” Consider:

Inflation since 2018: 21.9%
Raises since 2018: 9.6% (for full-time faculty; much less for most everyone else)

You gonna take this shit? We’re not. And we hope you won’t, either!

The solution

Right now you’ll find the fullest explanation of our positions in our flier “UA workers, prepare to strike! Let’s impose our will on the bosses!” Please share it with your fellow workers in print and on social media, even if you don’t agree with it in full.

But in short:

This site aims to unite all UA workers for the fierce battles we hope are ahead. If we want anything more than scraps, we need to prepare for mass collective action. Not collective bargaining, but collective action!

This site does not dispense ready-made formulas from on high. We will all discover our tactics and goals only during the militant struggle of the whole UA workforce. As such, this site is one forum to discuss and coordinate, free from the bosses and their unwitting allies in the unions.

Which brings us to our next point: this site is “outside and against the unions.” To win, workers must break out of the ghettos the unions put us in. To fight as separate, isolated groups is to play into the bosses’ strategy of divide and conquer. By limiting us to the legal limits afforded them by the state, the unions tie our hands. Instead of an organization that exists only to sell our labor power, we need to self-organize in the interests of the entire class!

A bold, unbounded struggle of all UA workers–that’s our only hope for victory!