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
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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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