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Bret Benjamin, United University Professions and Co-Chair, HELU National Coordinated Organizing Committee The participants in the Northeast Regional Bargaining Conference produced a higher ed bargaining platform they called the Amherst Compact to guide coordinated collective bargaining. It is now gathering formal endorsements from the 55 unions that sent participants as well as other locals in the

Karin Rosemblatt, HELU delegate and UAM-UMD (United Academics of Maryland, University of Maryland) President In states where there are holes in public sector collective bargaining enabling legislation, the fight for the right to unionize and bargain has to take place in the legislature and on the ground. On February 10, 93 University of Maryland-College Park colleagues

Brendan McGovern, UUP (United University Professions), Binghamton Chapter President On February 17 and 18, UUP member Alcibiades “Alex” Lazaro Ramirez González and his husband, CSEA member Yannier “Yan” Vázquez Hidalgo, walked out of federal detention and back into the arms of their union family. Their ordeal began last October when they arrived at a scheduled

Faith Ericson, Delegate to HELU from the Minnesota Inter-Faculty Organization (IFO) There is a student I haven’t seen since the first week of the semester. He’s in the National Guard and has been deployed to respond to the mayhem brought on by the “Metro Surge” in the Twin Cities. Another student tells me she watched

Mike Budd, Delegate from United Faculty of Florida In our continuing series on what’s happening in Florida, including this and this, here’s the latest news on the state of Florida’s attacks on the teaching of sociology and the fightbacks by UFF and its allies.   On Feb. 18, 2026, the United Faculty of Florida (FEA/NEA/AFT/AFL-CIO), sponsored

United Campus Workers (CWA 2265) hosts town hall series beginning Saturday, Feb 21 To my colleagues and comrades in HELU, from Harry Szabo. President, UCWVA We know that in states where public service workers have Collective Bargaining rights, the outcomes aren’t just good for those workers. They are also good for  the community and for

Pat Heintzelman, Texas Faculty Association State President, AAUP chapter president and HELU delegate Higher Education faculty are facing overwhelming and crushing challenges just to do the work for which they have dedicated much of their lives and money: the skills to  be experts in their respective fields and prepare students to do the same. National

From Jenna Chernega, President of the Inter-Faculty Organization of Minnesota State Universities (IFO) and Vice-Chair of HELU This report was written on Friday, the day before the Saturday, January 24 ICE murder of Alex Pretti, the ICU nurse who worked at the Minnesota VA Health Care system. – Editor Let’s see. I can tell a