Some faculty that are already strongly unionized, like Jenna Chernega, president of Inter Faculty Organization in Minnesota and a professor of sociology at Winona State University, have joined with the coalition Higher Ed Labor United (HELU), a newer group focused on building coalitions of different types of workers on campus and working across the unions that represent higher ed workers. Chernega says that as a statewide union with a relatively safe local context, the Inter Faculty Organization was interested in finding an avenue to advocate on a federal or national level where threats are most likely to originate. As a national coalition, HELU provides that.
