With HELU members PSC-CUNY and Rutgers AAUP-AFT, HELU is co-hosting a NYC-area congressional town hall. Join us in-person at PSC’s Union Hall (25 Broadway, 15th floor) for a town hall featuring candidates running for U.S. Congress in the June 23rd primary. We will spend 15 minutes with each candidate, including Chuck Park (NY-6), Claire Valdez […]
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Higher ed labor is organizing. Learn more and join us. May 2026 HELU Chair’s Message From Levin Kim, HELU Chair and member of UAW 4121: What’s next? In the months leading up to May Day, higher ed workers from coast to coast built power around a simple but powerful set of demands to assert
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From Levin Kim, HELU Chair and member of UAW 4121: What’s next? In the months leading up to May Day, higher ed workers from coast to coast built power around a simple but powerful set of demands to assert a worker-centered vision for higher ed. More importantly, workers, students, and alumni on campuses and metro
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From AAUP National and the California Faculty Association: California educators, researchers, staff, students, retirees, and public education beneficiaries should not have their pension, retirement, or university endowment assets used to bankroll attacks on public higher education. CalSTRS, CalPERS, the UC Regents, and UC Investments have a responsibility to manage public education pension, retirement, and endowment
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By Geoff Johnson, At Large member of HELU and President of the AFT Adjunct/Contingent Caucus At the AFT National Convention in Washington, DC on July 16-19, 2026, the Adjunct/Contingent Caucus will present a resolution calling for AFT to create model language and legislation for Due Process rights for Contingent faculty. This resolution is backed by
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Helena Worthen with Lauren Lassabe Shepherd, HELU individual member, historian of American colleges and universities, author of Resistance from the Right: Conservatives and the Campus Wars in Modern America (University of North Carolina Press, 2023), Inventing the Liberal University (University of Chicago Press, forthcoming), and co-editor of Degrees of Liberation (SUNY Press, forthcoming). Listen to
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The United Faculty of Florida (UFF) is a statewide union representing close to 10,000 public higher education workers in Florida. UFF has chapters in all public universities (12 in total). We have 16 chapters in the state college system and 4 graduate student chapters. UFF represents mostly instructional faculty and instructional support faculty. HELU asks: In
From our colleagues at UCW Colorado–CWA 7799: Colorado Residents! Tell your Representatives and Senators to vote NO on SB26-193 Colorado lawmakers should reject SB26-193, a bill that would exempt public employers from local minimum wage laws and lower wages for tens of thousands of public workers across Colorado. This bill is not a “clarification.” It
From our colleagues at St. John’s University AAUP: After a whirlwind two months of rapid AAUP growth and actions to restore recognition of St. John’s faculty unions, this semester is nearing its end. On Tuesday, May 12th, the university Board of Trustees will meet on campus in advance of Commencement ceremonies. This is your last
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Andrew Ross: Let me begin on a personal note. My employer, when it’s not calling the NYPD to arrest me and my colleagues and students, is always actively encouraging me to retire. Last summer, NYU offered a sweet retirement package, and I thought long and hard about taking it. Everyone was saying it’s a good time