University of Iowa Grad Workers Union. The Campaign to Organize Graduate Students, affectionately known as COGS. ⚙️🌽🌹
Iowa City, IA
Joined October 2014
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COGS/UE Local 896 retweeted
The UE General Executive Board (GEB) met for two days in Pittsburgh this week. The union’s highest decision-making body in between conventions, the GEB is made up of eight elected rank-and-file members from each geographical region, along with the three national officers. (1/4)
ALT Members sit around a table speaking to each other
ALT Two members listen to the others speak
ALT One woman speaks while two other members listen
COGS/UE Local 896 retweeted
#UnionStrong 🗺 the struggle of #workers and students has no borders
COGS/UE Local 896 retweeted
Sorry
"Bring Back Jim Crow or else!"
Isn't a compelling threat
Trump is an idiot, states should behave accordingly
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COGS/UE Local 896 retweeted
Please consider donating.
Every person of our community is valued and important no matter their immigration status!
Want to help students at UI who are caught up in the government's war on students and immigrants?
Please consider donating what you can.
We're really honored to be working with Iowa City Mutual Aid to collect funds to support international students.
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COGS/UE Local 896 retweeted
University of Iowa dean says five student visas have been revoked. What to know: press-citizen.com/story/news…
COGS/UE Local 896 retweeted
Days after the University of Iowa confirmed the U.S. Department of State had canceled the visa of at least one graduate student, a campus union on Tuesday reported 5 UI international students now have had their visas revoked. thegazette.com/higher-educat…
COGS/UE Local 896 retweeted
The need to collectivize our strength is at an all time high. This will take people in power willing to stand up and protect these students. The university and our elected officials need to be doing everything they can to show that everyone is important to our community!
COGS/UE Local 896 retweeted
We need bravery in Iowa City right now. We need city, university, county officials willing to do whatever it takes to oppose this racist authoritarianism. We need to put whats right before our careers or positions. You may want to pretend it’s not so, but your “normal” is gone.
COGS/UE Local 896 retweeted
Higher education is under assault, in Iowa and nationally.
As part of the AAUP Day of Action, Ann Rhodes outlines the values underlying an event planned for this Thursday on the Pentacrest in Iowa City.
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Univ. of Iowa COGS union speaks out against cancellation of international student’s visa kcrg.com/video/2025/04/11/un…
COGS/UE Local 896 retweeted
In response to reports that OCR is requesting names/nationalities of people who may have been involved in alleged T6 violations, the AAUP has written college general counsels to clarify that they are not legally compelled to comply and should NOT do so
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Always great to see my grad school advisor and advisor for life Bruce fighting the good fight. Solidarity with COGS. #1DayForIowa
ALT Dr. Bruce Fehn speaks to the crowd during a COGS rally Wednesday, March 26, 2025 on the Pentacrest in Iowa City, Iowa. Julia Hansen/Iowa City Press-Citizen
UI grad students rally against funding cuts, demand 'academic freedom' in Iowa City press-citizen.com/story/news…
COGS/UE Local 896 retweeted
I can't overstate how terrified members of our academic communities are now. The video of Rumeysa Ozturk, a Tufts student, being surrounded by MASKED ICE officers, cuffed and hauled away shakes me to my core. And then I passed ICE vehicles parked near our campus this morning ...
COGS/UE Local 896 retweeted
Grad Student union @cogsunion at the University of Iowa are protesting One Day For Iowa, where the university makes departments compete for fundraising. University workers are telling people to not donate to a university that underpays them and is divesting from equity programs.
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Grant Miner, President of UAW Local 2710, who was expelled and fired by Columbia University just one day before contract negotiations were set to speaks at the National Day of Action for Palestine in NYC, demanding the immediate release of Mahmoud Khalil and for an end to Trump’s billionaire agenda that is attacking us all: immigrants, students and working class people everywhere—it’s up to us to fight back!
