HELU Events
Nov 12 & 19 – Organizing Strategies and Victories in Non-Collective Bargaining Contexts: A Two-Part Series
Many campus workers today are demoralized, dispirited, and disempowered. And many are channeling personal disillusionment into political consciousness and transforming individual grievance into collective organizing. But how do you do that when you don’t have a union? Join HELU on Nov. 12 & 19 at 7pm ET / 6pm CT / 5pm MT / 4pm…
Oct 28 – Higher Ed Votes! (Online)
Monday, October 28, 20248pm ET / 7pm CT / 6pm MT / 5pm PT Join higher education workers and students from across the country on Monday, October 28 on Zoom. We will rally our combined energy around a progressive vision of public higher education that works for all of us. We will channel that energy,…
October 30 – Report Release: Union Members Address Rightwing Threat on Campus (Online)
Wednesday, October 307pm ET/6pm CT/5pm MT/4pm PT Higher education labor and social justice organizing is in a historic upswing. Unfortunately, at the same time the Right is waging an unprecedented assault on institutions, workers, and students. CWA’s Public, Healthcare, and Education Workers (PHEW) office launched a research project aimed at better understanding the nature and…
Oct 29 – Lend and Rule: Fighting the Shadow Financialization of Public Higher Education (Online)
Tuesday, October 298pm ET/7pm CT/6pm MT/5pm PTOnline via Zoom Colleges closing. Departments and courses eliminated. Austerity driving debt and debt driving austerity. Public higher education’s future is being held hostage by financial institutions and actors. How did it get this way? How do we organize to free public higher education from the talons of debt…
Oct 22 – Michigan Higher Ed Labor Summit: Labor, Higher Ed, and the 2024 Election (Ypsilanti, MI)
Michigan Higher Ed Labor Summit: Labor, Higher Ed, and the 2024 Election Student debt. Job insecurity. Downsizing. Outsourcing. Management bloat. Want to fix what’s broken with our higher education system? Join local and national labor leaders and rank-and-file workers in a discussion about how we fight for public higher education system that works for all of…
Oct 17 – Future of Higher Ed Town Hall: Labor, Higher Ed, and the 2024 Election (Philadelphia, PA)
Future of Higher Ed Town Hall: Labor, Higher Ed, and the 2024 Election October 17, 2024, 6-8pmCommunity College of Philadelphia AuditoriumBonnell Building 1st FloorEnter on 17th Street Join Higher Ed Labor United (HELU) member unions, the Philadelphia Council AFL-CIO, AAUP national president Todd Wolfson, HELU Vice Chair and UAW 4121 President Levin Kim, and local higher ed…