HELU Blog

Higher Education Labor United (HELU) urgently seeks temporary staff through the beginning of July 2024 for the position of Convention Coordinator.  The Convention Coordinator serves as the lead for the planning and execution of HELU’s founding convention this spring, including all social organizational infrastructure (physical logistics and social, i.e., across HELU member and prospective member

From Mia McIver, UC-AFT On February 17, 2024, HELU partnered with UCLA’s Institute for Research on Labor and Employment (IRLE) to host an exciting roundtable conversation in Los Angeles. 50 participants joined in to discuss building coalitional power, politicizing our labor struggles, and expanding the labor movement in higher education. We were welcomed by Loretta

From Joe Ramsey HELU’s Contingency Task Force (CTF) works to center the concerns of contingent faculty (both part-time and full-time), and to raise consciousness more broadly about the way that labor precarity erodes academic freedom and the common good mission of higher education. We also work to develop and share strategies for building faculty solidarity and

From Helena Worthen No. Wall-to-wall and coast-to-coast is just the simplest way to state where we’ve got to go in order to eliminate contingency, reclaim academic freedom and get back higher education as a public good. “Wall-to-wall and coast-to-coast” may be ambitious, but it didn’t come out of nowhere. HELU is just the current front

From Marcus Johnson, Assistant Professor of Government and Politics at the University of Maryland, College Park and a member of AAUP-AFT. This year, University System of Maryland graduate workers and faculty are once again backing legislation that would recognize collective bargaining (CB) rights for graduate assistants, faculty librarians, full-time and part-time faculty. When the National

From Evan Bowman, IT Project Coordinator at OHSU and IT Chair of AFSCME Local 328, which represents over 8,000 healthcare workers. Portland, OR – The House Officers Union (AFSCME Local 4820) at Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) has overwhelmingly voted to ratify their second three-year contract, with 96% of members voting to approve (OHSU

Written by Geoff Johnson. Geoff Johnson is a member of CFT/AFT San Diego and Grossmont Guild. Johnson is also Adjunct Rep to the CFT Community College Council, Chair of the CCA/CTA Part-time Faculty Issues Committee, President of the AFT Adjunct/Contingent Caucus, and sits on the One-Tier Task Force. This message is addressed to locals that are