Higher ed labor is organizing. Learn more and join us. March 2026 HELU Chair’s Message From Levin Kim, HELU Chair and member of UAW 4121: Last week in New York City, HELU members and delegates joined hundreds of striking workers and higher ed union members at the Contract Faculty United-UAW picket line. Despite the […]
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Higher ed labor is organizing. Learn more and join us. February 2026 HELU Chair’s Message From Levin Kim, HELU Chair and member of UAW 4121: What would it look like for the higher ed labor movement to make our collective power visible on May 1st, 2026? On Wednesday, HELU delegates came together for
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From Levin Kim, HELU Chair and member of UAW 4121: Last week in New York City, HELU members and delegates joined hundreds of striking workers and higher ed union members at the Contract Faculty United-UAW picket line. Despite the blustery weather, the solidarity was clearly palpable – and after 2 days on strike, CFU-UAW won
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From our colleagues at University Professionals of Illinois (UPI): For 10 months, UIS staff and faculty chapters of UPI Local #4100 have been in negotiations for new labor contracts with the university administration. Due to administrative foot-dragging, there has been little progress in negotiations. To avoid a strike, the administration needs to come to the
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From our colleagues at Drexel University AAUP: The Drexel provost’s office is proposing to drastically reduce the length of non-tenure track faculty contracts and to gut the current NTT policy, PO-85. These proposed expedited, top-down unilateral cuts will:
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From our colleagues at Graduate Teaching Fellows Federation (GTFF-AFT 3544) and UO Student Workers: The University of Oregon terminated the contracts of Mae Bracelin and Mike Urbancic, who were not only employees of the UO, but also the elected presidents of the student (UOSW) and faculty (UAUO) unions, respectively. UO justified their terminations by appealing
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From our colleagues at the Texas State Employees Union (TSEU-CWA 6186): Dr. Idris Robinson is facing institutional repression for voicing his solidarity with Palestinian liberation. Colleagues are raising funds for his legal fees.Since June, Texas State University has been quietly moving to terminate Dr. Idris Robinson following an online harassment campaign that targeted him for
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by Joe Berry, Delegate from AFT 2121 and Helena Worthen, Delegate from NWU A general strike on May Day 2026 – what does that bring to your mind? Thousands of workers marching with picket signs and shouting angry slogans? That’s the classic media image. But it’s not actually what a general strike mostly looks like. What
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By Chris Robe, UFF (United Faculty of Florida) and Florida Atlantic University Ever since Florida became ground zero for the attacks against public higher education roughly five years ago, many misconceptions circulate regarding how academic freedom functions down here and the ways in which it is being compromised. A recent job candidate confided to a
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From the HELU Michigan Coalition: HELU has been quietly engaged in regional organizing for the past year. There are regional organizing projects going on in the Northeast, around the Philadelphia area, in the Pacific Northwest and in New Mexico, among others. The work of these projects is specific to their region. This is a report
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