From Anne Balay, Incoming General Member of HELU Steering Committee On December 5 & 6, the city of Detroit and Wayne State University hosted the incoming and outgoing HELU steering committee, other electeds, and staff for a strategic planning retreat and lesson handover. Many of us had roots in Detroit, and it was the perfect […]
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From Brendan McGovern, UUP Binghamton Chapter President While attending a scheduled immigration hearing on October 29, 2025, Upstate Medical Center UUP member Alex Ramírez González and CSEA member Yan Vázquez, a married couple who fled repression in Cuba, were seized by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents. Both men followed the law and appeared for their
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From Bret Benjamin, HELU Steering Committee, UUP State University of New York System. To win the higher education system we want will require national, coordinated, multi-union organizing campaigns that build collective power across the sector. As one important step towards this broader goal, HELU is organizing a Northeast Regional Bargaining Summit in Amherst, MA on
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Each of these projects grew organically out of a felt need as we set out on our wall-to-wall and coast-to-coast organizing project. Steering committee members, delegates, and at-large members then stepped up to make them happen. In some cases (international worker organizing, for example) projects have been paused; in others (May Day 2026-2028) organizing has
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From our colleagues at United RAs at Penn–OPEIU Local 153: United RAs at Penn–OPEIU Local 153 has learned that Graduate Student Resident Advisors who also perform research or instructional services may be forced out of their position by Penn. This illegal, unilateral action by Penn seeks to leave dozens of graduate workers without stable housing
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From our colleagues at AAUP North Carolina: AAUP NC has learned, through the hard work of AAUP members, that the UNC System is planning to force instructors to publish their syllabi, creating a creating a single, searchable repository of all university and college syllabi. This move would endanger students and instructors by inviting political actors to
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December 36-7:30pm ET275 7th Avenue, NYCRegister here Join the Century Foundation, Jain Family Institute, and Higher Education Labor United for a presentation and discussion of a new proposal to fundamentally remake American higher education. American higher education is in crisis, with the existing system failing students, workers, and the public at large while catering to
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Students, faculty and staff at more than 100 campuses across the US rallied against the Trump administration’s assault on higher education on Friday – the first in a planned series of nationwide, coordinated protests that organizers hope will culminate in large-scale students’ and workers’ strikes next May Day and a nationwide general strike in May 2028.
From our colleagues at the Indiana State AFL-CIO: In 2025, Indiana passed HEA/HB1001, a budget law requiring public colleges to seek approval for continuing low-enrollment degree programs. In response, universities—including multiple Indiana University campuses—have proposed suspending or eliminating dozens to over 100 programs statewide, including labor studies, social sciences, and offerings focused on community-engagement. This means by
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From our colleagues at Harrisburg Area Community College Education Association (HACCEA/HAWK Faculty United): As of 12:01 a.m. on Monday, November 3, HACC faculty are on strike. HACC faculty are picketing starting Monday, November 3 at the Harrisburg campus. Supporters from the community are welcome to join the picket line there. Nearly four years of contract
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