“Resident Advisors at Penn are on the frontlines of student health and well-being at Penn. “In September 2023, 87% of RAs voted in favor of unionizing with OPEIU 153. This decision reflected RAs collective resolve to have more input and fair compensation for their substantial contributions to campus life. “While (G)RAs have had some success […]
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Higher Education Labor United (HELU) stands with many others in the U.S. labor movement in condemning the arrests and disciplinary actions recently taken by a growing list of college and university leaders at Cal Poly Humboldt, Columbia, Emerson, Emory, NYU, The Ohio State University, Yale, the Universities of Minnesota, Southern California, Texas at Austin, and
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Student Workers at NYU (SWAN), Resident Assistants are unionizing! NYU student workers are unionizing for various reasons. Some of the goals we could achieve through collective bargaining are better pay and benefits, work-life boundaries, improved training, clearer boundaries for job role, consistency and transparency. Tell Linda Mills, president of NYU, and the board to acknowledge
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“On April 18th, Minouche Shafik, the President of Columbia, violated university procedures and authorized the NYPD to arrest dozens of Columbia students, including members of Student Workers of Columbia— SWC-UAW 2710. The protesting students and student workers had bravely held the Gaza Solidarity Encampment on the lawn in the center of campus for two days,
“American Association of University Professors chapters plan to join Higher Education Labor United, the American Federation of Teachers, and other higher education unions and student organizations in the event is deemed a coordinated nationwide counter-offensive against a sustained assault on American higher education as a public good.” Read more here.
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“Last year alone, [Inside Higher Ed] reported, 26 new bargaining units earned voluntary recognition or certification – that represents more than 40,000 researchers, post-doctoral workers and graduate-student workers on higher-ed campuses. A developing organization, Higher Ed Labor United, or HELU, is also trying to forge a national coalition of higher-ed workers, those in a union
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Grad workers at Boston University are on strike as of Monday, March 25, “calling for better pay, improved health care coverage and guaranteed childcare subsidies, among other demands.” The rank and file of the Boston University Graduate Workers Union (BUGWU) has created an independent Hardship Fund, sponsored by the Jamaica Plain non-profit bookstore, the Lucy
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“Now a developing organization, Higher Ed Labor United, or HELU, is seeking to forge a national coalition of all types of higher education workers—regardless of which union they’re in or whether they’re in any union, and regardless of their job title.” Read more…
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From Teachers & Researchers United (UE Local 197) at Johns Hopkins University: Support TRU-UE Local 197’s strike fund! We represent graduate workers at Johns Hopkins and have been bargaining our first contract for nearly a year. Johns Hopkins continues to stall on our core issues: competitive wages and fair benefits. We are preparing to strike if the university
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All workers at Jax State deserve to be paid a living wage. For too long, employees of the university have not been fairly compensated for their work. We are calling on President Don Killingsworth to increase wages for hourly workers to align with the cost of living in Northeast Alabama. Sign the petition to let
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