Building a higher ed labor movement wall-to-wall and coast-to-coast.
Higher Education Labor United (HELU) is a national organization founded in 2021 to unite workers throughout U.S. higher education. HELU brings together unions that represent staff, student workers, adjunct, contingent, and tenured faculty, postdocs, university health system workers, and others. We come together to create and pursue a unified vision for higher education and to add our strength to a reinvigorated U.S. labor movement. Unions and organizations representing over 225,000 higher ed and allied workers across the U.S. have joined HELU as member organizations.
Higher Education Labor Champions
Higher Ed Labor Champions are candidates and/or elected officials who have signed on to the Higher Ed Labor Champion Pledge.
This Pledge and our ongoing work with its signatories are part of HELU’s long-term Politics & Policy work. The Pledge is a nonpartisan policy advocacy activity and does not constitute election involvement or endorsements.
We can take down ICE
by refusing to cooperate
Our schools contract with companies that help ICE deport our neighbors. We have the power to get hundreds of colleges to drop their contracts with ICE’s key enablers – Enterprise, Target, Hilton, Flock, and ICE Air Carriers. Learn more and take action at the Schools Drop ICE website.
Northeast Regional Bargaining & the Amherst Compact
It is time for a Northeast regional bargaining strategy to leverage the power of workers across job categories and institutions to raise the standards of work, learning, research, care, and the integrity of educational programs in our higher ed and academic medical systems.
Show Solidarity
Take action today and show solidarity with higher ed workers across the nation.