HELU’s original (2020) Vision Platform framed higher education as a public good and was endorsed by over 100 local unions and labor-adjacent organizations. Building on this Vision Platform in October 2024, HELU presented a Unity Statement signed by 9 peak national and international unions. In February 2025 these unions formed Labor4 Higher Education, or L4HE. […]
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From our colleagues at United Academics of Ohio University (UAOU): OU Management has been taking advantage of legal maneuvers and disrespecting the democratic will of its faculty for more than 14 months. They have chosen to side with union busting lawyers, filing an appeal to our union victory in the Ohio courts on May 22.
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The energy behind the creation of HELU came from people in organizations like the Debt Collective, Scholars for a New Deal, the unions representing workers at Rutgers University (which were forced into joint action by the university’s austerity response to Covid-19), Jobs with Justice, the multiple arms of the contingent faculty movement, and the Bernie
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The Thursday flyer distribution is supported by Higher Education Labor United, a national labor organization, and other Boston Area non-tenure-track faculty unions. According to Gulesserian, following the Trump administration’s attempt to revoke Harvard’s Student and Exchange Visa Program certification, HELU expressed interest in organizing in support of the University. “Higher education is under attack, and
A conversation with Toby Miller, Chris Robé, Jordan Scott, Nicole Erin Morse, Robin Goodman, and Katie Rainwater. Edited by Mike Budd and Helena Worthen The U.S. right wing, now in power at the federal level and in many states, tries to overwhelm opposition, taking over even our most basic democratic institutions. Higher education is a
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A coalition of labor unions representing faculty and other higher education workers called for free college and more Thursday—the same day House Republicans passed their reconciliation bill, which would cut Pell Grants and target postsecondary education in other ways. The federal policy agenda is from Higher Ed Labor United (HELU), which seeks to unify all
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From EWOC and Labor@Wayne: Join EWOC for its first-ever organizing conference on June 27–29, 2025, co-hosted by Labor@Wayne at Wayne State University (WSU) in Detroit! EWOC has organized thousands of workers since our start in March 2020. In an effort to connect with even more worker-organizers, and to celebrate our five-year anniversary, we’re hosting our
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From our colleagues at SEIU Local 721: For too long, USD’s Non-Tenure Track (NTT) Faculty have lived without fair pay, true job security, and other basic worker protections. Faculty working conditions are student learning conditions! Click here to send a message to USD President James T. Harris III demanding that the administration reach an agreement
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From our colleagues at the Debt Collective: Right now, Congress is reviewing markups for a budget reconciliation bill that, if approved, will be history’s most dangerous higher ed bill. The bill will take away the right for working class people to access higher education, severely reducing access to student loans and removing the possibility of
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By Helena Worthen The current HELU Steering Committee was elected at our founding convention in May 2024. HELU will be conducting elections for new leadership in at the quarterly General Assembly in November 2025. They will serve from January 2026 to January 2028. We are alerting HELU delegates to this schedule because we know that
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