AAUP-Penn is working together with many higher ed unions, AAUP chapters, HELU members, and student organizations across the country to plan a National Day of Action for Higher Education that will take place on April 17. The aim is not just to beat back the current attacks on academic freedom and on campus protests, DEI bans, and devastating budget […]
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We invite activists and teacher-scholars to a 2-part virtual discussion about the new book Contingent Faculty and the Remaking of Higher Education: A Labor History (2024). Register here. Session 1: Thursday, February 15, 2024, 7:30-9pm ET/6:30-8pm CT/5:30-7pm MT/4:30-6pm PT Session II: Thursday, March 14, 2024, 7:30-9pm ET/6:30-8pm CT/5:30-7pm MT/4:30-6pm PT Each session will include an
Monday, January 22, 2024 at 4pm ET/3pm CT/2pm MT/1pm PT Panelists will discuss the events of November 2022, when 48,000 graduate workers, postdocs, and academic researchers went on strike at the University of California. This was the largest strike to-date in higher education. While the outcomes of the strike are well-documented, less is known about
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Colleges and universities are under attack. HELU is going on the offensive – join us. In the past few days, disastrous Supreme Court decisions struck down affirmative action and overturned Biden’s partial student debt cancelation program. This confirms once again: we need a fighting movement to rebuild U.S. higher education. From the Supreme Court to
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Strategies to Abolish Faculty Contingency Tuesday, June 20 @ 4pm PT/5pm MT/6pm CT/7pm ET on Zoom Register to attend More than 75% of faculty in higher ed are contingent. As organizers at Higher Ed Labor United (HELU), we refuse to accept the unjust systems of worker exploitation embedded in our higher ed institutions, and we
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CREATION OF A COMMITTEE FOR A CONTINENTAL DAY OF MOBILIZATION IN EDUCATION At the last COCAL conference in Querétaro, the delegates voted in favour of organizing a continental day of mobilization for an education that is public, free, pluriversal, and democratic and that offers fair and equitable working conditions.In order to well organize this important
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This 3-day virtual conference will include a roundtable discussion on the intersections of higher education labor and colonization on Friday April 21st, 3-4:30 p.m. PST. We will hear from with our labor siblings LeeCee LeeOliver and Sandy Kewanhaptewa-Dixon, from CFA’s Native American and Indigenous Peoples Caucus, and Naomi R. Williams (Rutgers/HELU). The summit, now in its 4th year, is an
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Thursday, December 15, 2022; 4:30pm PT/ 5:30pm MT/ 6:30pm CT/ 7:30pm ET A lot has happened – and is still happening! – with higher ed labor in 2022. Join us for a wall-to-wall, coast-to-coast celebration of 2022 organizing and action across the US and internationally, and to prepare for the long fight ahead. Union members with
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From Save Ohio Higher Ed (SOHE): SOHE’s 10th forum is aimed at precarious academic workers in Ohio — most of whom, by state law, do not have collective bargaining rights. It should also be useful for anyone interested in mounting effective issue campaigns and in building collective power across different types of workers. On Zoom: Organize!
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The Graduate Student Action Network (@GradAction on Twitter), a group of grad student leaders at 50+ universities in 30 states, is organizing a Day of Student Action for Bodily Autonomy on Oct 6, 2022. Graduate, undergrad, medical, and law students will leave their classrooms and labs, gathering together on campus to publicly demand federal laws
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