By Carolyn Kube, Chair of HELU Outreach Committee, Steering Committee member for Healthcare Workers and Delegate from UUP. HELU organizes local unions and labor organizations, not individual people, although individuals can join. This makes HELU organizing different from organizing people into a local union. The idea behind HELU is that by drawing the local unions […]
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By Ian Gavigan, HELU Executive Director. HELU’s vision of higher ed organized wall-to-wall and coast-to-coast rests upon the idea that union locals are the starting point for an organizing strategy that builds power at the sectoral level in order to wage a national fight against our broken system of higher ed finance and governance. On
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by Brendan McGovern, UUP Binghamton Chapter President. May Day, observed each year on May 1, is one of the most important days in the global labor movement. Its origins trace back to the struggle for the eight-hour workday in the late 19th century, when hundreds of thousands of workers across the United States went on
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Date & Time: Wednesday, April 22, 8 – 9:15pm EDT Students and workers are rising up on May Day! Join us for a MASS CALL to hear how students and workers are organizing for freedom, affordability, and safety all across the country. Get the tools you need to host a May Day action at your
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Prioritizing Faculty Equality to Defend Higher Education: Sunday, April 26, 3-5pm ET (2-4pm CT, 1-3pm MT, 12-2pm PT) Register for the zoom forum here: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/WZntS-qRQFyCjcnWihF98g#/registration Featuring voices from Higher Ed Labor United’s Contingency Task Force: This “coast to coast” HELU panel will feature a range of institutional and strategic viewpoints about the obstacles to unity and solidarity
Harvard Graduate Students Union (HGSU) has been bargaining with University administration since February 2025 on key issues of: pay equity; real recourse against harassment and discrimination; stronger non-citizen worker protections; and fair share fees that help ensure the best possible enforcement of HGSU’s contract. Please help provide material support for striking graduate workers in Cambridge! Read more and contribute
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“By standing together, Higher Education Unions can use their collective power to push for gains that wouldn’t have been possible otherwise,” UUP President Fred Kowal said. “A regional bargaining strategy can help raise the standards of employment for Unions out there negotiating new agreements. As a founding member of Higher Education Labor United, UUP believes
The so-called Amherst Compact was written by local and state union representatives who met at a summit organized by Higher Education Labor United in January at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. The unions in the compact represent workers in nine states — Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, and Vermont
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From our colleagues at the CUNY Graduate Center Chapter of the Professional Staff Congress: The CUNY Graduate Center Chapter of the Professional Staff Congress is hosting a stop on Tom Alter’s Defend Free Speech tour! Come listen to Tom and Noelle discuss the struggle for free speech on campus, and join the discussion on how
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From our colleagues at Graduate Employees’ Organization, AFT 3550: A graduate worker in Taubman was detained by ICE on Wednesday. He is currently being held in North Lake Detention Center in Baldwin, Michigan. His detention was avoidable and is a direct result of several failures and problems within the college’s hiring practices and lack of
Tell Taubman College to support a graduate worker held in ICE detention! Read More »