From Joe Ramsey HELU’s Contingency Task Force (CTF) works to center the concerns of contingent faculty (both part-time and full-time), and to raise consciousness more broadly about the way that labor precarity erodes academic freedom and the common good mission of higher education. We also work to develop and share strategies for building faculty solidarity and […]
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From Helena Worthen No. Wall-to-wall and coast-to-coast is just the simplest way to state where we’ve got to go in order to eliminate contingency, reclaim academic freedom and get back higher education as a public good. “Wall-to-wall and coast-to-coast” may be ambitious, but it didn’t come out of nowhere. HELU is just the current front
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From Marcus Johnson, Assistant Professor of Government and Politics at the University of Maryland, College Park and a member of AAUP-AFT. This year, University System of Maryland graduate workers and faculty are once again backing legislation that would recognize collective bargaining (CB) rights for graduate assistants, faculty librarians, full-time and part-time faculty. When the National
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From Evan Bowman, IT Project Coordinator at OHSU and IT Chair of AFSCME Local 328, which represents over 8,000 healthcare workers. Portland, OR – The House Officers Union (AFSCME Local 4820) at Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) has overwhelmingly voted to ratify their second three-year contract, with 96% of members voting to approve (OHSU
From our colleagues at AFT 2121: City College of San Francisco is a gem of California public education. Right now its faculty need your support. City College has been overdeducting from faculty paychecks for OPEB (retirement funds) for years from hundreds of faculty in a clear case of wage theft. When the faculty union AFT
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Late on the afternoon of Friday, February 9, 2024, our colleagues at AFT New Mexico learned that members of the NM Senate Finance Committee plan to cut their previous compensation recommendation for educational employees, both in K-12 and higher ed. The previously recommended budget included approximately a 4% raise. Members of the Senate Finance Committee are
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Written by Geoff Johnson. Geoff Johnson is a member of CFT/AFT San Diego and Grossmont Guild. Johnson is also Adjunct Rep to the CFT Community College Council, Chair of the CCA/CTA Part-time Faculty Issues Committee, President of the AFT Adjunct/Contingent Caucus, and sits on the One-Tier Task Force. This message is addressed to locals that are
from Sean O’Brien, AAUP-AFT 6075 at Wayne State University HELU is teamed up with Labor@Wayne, the labor education program at Wayne State University in Michigan, to do an occasional series of labor history/labor issue lectures. Labor education programs like Labor@Wayne exist at many public colleges and universities and bring a perspective on the world that
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From Joseph Ramsey, University of Massachusetts Boston The Contingency Task Force is the place in HELU that draws people for whom the issue of contingency is central, where they can report, discuss, debate, and strategize. Of all the activist formations in HELU, the CTF may be the least formal, although it is also productive and
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Earlier in January, the University of North Carolina Greensboro released a list of programs up for elimination. From our union siblings at UNCG AAUP: The proposed list of cuts released by the Chancellor overwhelmingly targets the College of Arts and Sciences, chipping away at UNCG’s promise of a well-rounded liberal arts education that will prepare
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