Interview with the Foundation Universities Branch of the Private-Sector Teachers' Union from Türkiye

Stony Brook Worker Editorial and Foundation Universities Branch of

The Private-Sector Teachers’ Union from Türkiye

Stony Brook Worker Editorial: Can you introduce the Private-Sector Teacher’s Union, and your branch in the union?

The Private-Sector Teachers’ Union: The Private Sector Teachers' Union is the roof of hundreds of thousands of education workers in the private sector who have been exploited, humiliated, discredited, disorganized and ignored by the state and bosses for decades. Turkey experienced a harsh transformation to neoliberal economic policies after the 1980 coup and the number of private schools and universities has increased dramatically since then, especially after the AKP government took power in 2002.

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SUNY BDS

In November of 2023, five active GSEU and UUP members from Stony Brook and Buffalo gathered on a Zoom call to discuss what we were going to do to hold SUNY accountable for its role in "israel's" genocide in Gaza. Out of this discussion came the plan to launch a boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) against "israel" campaign in the SUNY system. SUNY BDS has since brought together undergraduate and graduate students, faculty, staff, and alumni from across 56 of the 64 campuses. We now have a leadership body, the Steering Committee, with representation of the 12 most active campuses, which is rapidly growing to include more organizers. Nearly a third of us are graduate students and workers, again showing how essential we are to change within the university system.

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Stony Brook Faculty Op-Ed

Why do acts of spectacular police violence against people of color, including the recent murder of Tyre Nichols, feel so painfully like reruns? The answer is as obvious as it is intractable: the police have nearly unchecked power.

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SBU GSEU International Student Workers Committee

For a school that prides itself as a champion of international students with a robust international community, Stony Brook’s administration fares no better than most other neoliberal higher education institutions, especially in their treatment of international grad workers. The discourse of diversity and inclusion remains hypocritical when administration not only makes the lives of international grad workers harder but also remains silent and inactive on the institutional mechanisms that put international grad workers in a disadvantaged position.

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