Eleven national labor unions gathered Monday in Philadelphia, calling on Vice President Kamala Harris for help in solving the future of higher education in the United States.
Several union leaders representing faculty and staff at hundreds of colleges and universities throughout the country held a press conference on the campus of Community College of Philadelphia to release a signed Statement of Unity.
“Without a just and inclusive higher education system that serves the public good, the majority of Americans will be excluded from meaningful participation in our democracy,” said Todd Wolfson, president of the American Association of University Professors. “We call on Kamala Harris to help resolve the higher education crisis by fully funding higher education, expanding access, ending the student debt emergency, safeguarding job security, and protecting the freedom to learn, speak, assemble, research, and organize in all higher education institutions.”
