Event Announcement – Page 6 – Higher Education Labor United

Colleges and universities are under attack. HELU is going on the offensive – join us.

Event Announcement, HELU Blog, HELU in the News, Solidarity Asks / June 30, 2023

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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Confronting Contingency Series Kick-Off Event

Event Announcement, Solidarity Asks / June 13, 2023

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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Call for Organizers: COCAL Conference in Gatineau, Québec, Aug 7-9, 2024

Event Announcement / June 6, 2023

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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Decolonizing Economics Summit: The 4th Annual Post-Capitalism Conference (April 20-22)

Event Announcement, HELU in the News / April 19, 2023

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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Higher Ed Labor 2022 Wrap Up: Building Solidarity for 2023

Event Announcement, HELU in the News, Solidarity Asks / December 8, 2022

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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Organize! Empowering Precarious Academics in Ohio

Event Announcement / October 17, 2022

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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Day of Student Action for Bodily Autonomy

Event Announcement, Solidarity Asks / August 31, 2022

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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Debt Collective: Sign by March 15 – Higher Ed Faculty for Full Student Debt Cancellation

Event Announcement, Solidarity Asks / March 10, 2022

Are you a Professor or Higher Educational Instructor that supports full student debt cancellation and Free College? Are you a student and want to help grow the movement to #CancelStudentDebt and make College Free for All? Send this letter to your professors and instructors! PLEASE SIGN BY MARCH 15TH, 2022. Sign the letter here.

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Participate in the National Center for the Study of Collective Bargaining in Higher Education and the Professions’ Academic Bargaining Unit Survey

Event Announcement, Solidarity Asks / February 27, 2022

The National Center for the Study of Collective Bargaining in Higher Education and the Professions at Hunter College is conducting a national survey to collect current information about academic union density in higher education. The data collected will form the basis for another open-source directory of collective bargaining relationships and links to contracts. The last complete directory was

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National Center for the Study of Collective Bargaining in Higher Education and the Professions’s Webinar: Race, History, and Academic Freedom, A Teach-in

Event Announcement, Solidarity Asks / February 27, 2022

Register Now for the National Center’s Webinar: Race, History, and Academic Freedom, A Teach-in March 2, 2022 at 6:00 p.m. EST The webinar seeks to educate those working and studying on campuses throughout the country about the current attacks on the teaching and learning about race in American history. The webinar has been endorsed by the

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