From our colleagues at Teamsters Local 2010: In California? Help Teamsters 2010 win fair treatment by joining a picket line near you – Strike at all 22 Cal State University Campuses! Picket times & locations: https://teamsters2010.org/FIGHT/ Anywhere else or can’t join a picket? Send a letter supporting CSU workers here. Teamsters Local 2010 is conducting […]
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Higher ed labor is organizing. Learn more and join us. January 2026 HELU Chair’s Message From Levin Kim, HELU Chair and member of UAW 4121: The struggle for immigration justice and the struggle to re-orient higher ed for the public good are one and the same. Both institutions have long been driven by the
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Higher ed labor is organizing. Learn more and join us. Upcoming Online Events: January 21 – HELU Open House February 4 – Library Workers Organizing Meeting & Strategy Session From the Blog: End-of-Year HELU Project Reports Each of these projects grew organically out of a felt need as we set out on our wall-to-wall
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From Levin Kim, HELU Chair and member of UAW 4121 The struggle for immigration justice and the struggle to re-orient higher ed for the public good are one and the same. Both institutions have long been driven by the same logics of austerity, contingency, and authoritarian control. I know, like many of us, that this
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From our colleagues at Georgetown University’s Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor: Join Labor Spring 2026, a series of events and gatherings supporting working people on campuses and in communities nationwide, organized by local committees. See the Labor Spring 2026 Call for Participation here Sign Up for Labor Spring 2026 here Many Labor
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From our colleagues at Graduate Rights and Our Wellbeing (GROW) and ResLife Organized Workers at Purdue: In Fall 2025, faculty whistleblowers revealed that Purdue has a list of “most dangerous countries.” The university administration has told graduate admissions committees that students from these countries are highly unlikely to be admitted, even if they receive departmental
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Show your solidarity with the broader labor movement & the higher ed community in Minnesota! Donate $20 or more to the Unite HERE Local 17 Solidarity Fund and submit proof of receipt on this form to receive a special “ICE Out of MN” postcard & HELU sticker. Contributions to the Unite HERE Local 17 Solidarity
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That has never happened before in our country—not during the McCarthy scare, not during the Vietnam war. Yet now, university administrations, following the lead of an openly fascist presidential administration, are dutifully punishing educators for speaking, teaching, and standing up for the truth, and for standing with students determined to do the same. Firing Sang
Higher ed labor is organizing. Learn more and join us. Dear Friend, My name is Evan. I am the IT Committee Chair at AFSCME Local 328 in Oregon, and the Vice Chair of Higher Ed Labor United. Yesterday, 200+ higher ed union members across Minnesota joined a rapid response action call we organized alongside other
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