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Adjunct Librarians and counselors in Arizona’s largest community college district get pay slashed in the name of “internal pay equity” from JMH, Arizona community college worker As a white working-class woman who grew up in Arizona (AZ) and has worked here since I was 15 (as a retail worker, barista, server, grocery bagger, etc.), it’s

National Coordinated Organizing Committee (NCOC)Chair: Bret Benjamin, UUPText of the May 2024 NCOC Resolution Contingency Task Force (CTF)Chair: Joe Ramsey, FSU/MTA/NEAText of the May 2024 CTF Resolution Politics and Policy CommitteeChair: Rebecca Givan, Rutgers AFT/AAUPText of the May 2024 Politics & Policy Resolution Outreach CommitteeCo-Chairs: Carolyn Kube, MS MT ASCP (I) UUP, Vice President for

from Evan Bowman – AFSCME Local 328 representing over 8,000 healthcare workers in Portland, Oregon and across our nation, and Media & Communications Co-chair of Higher Education Labor United I rise in support of this resolution both as a healthcare IT worker witnessing the ravages of privatization and profiteering on Oregon’s healthcare system, as well

From Helena Worthen, Chair, HELU Media & Communications Committee Does HELU need an international coalition partner? The Coalition on Contingent Academic Labor (COCAL) concluded its fifteenth bi-annual conference on August 9 in Gatineau, Quebec, drawing approximately 100 participants from Mexico, the US and Canada. This marked nearly 30 years of a project that is both

From Joe Ramsey, HELU Steering Committee member & Chair of the Contingency Task Force On July 31, HELU’s Contingency Task Force (CTF) and the Debt Collective co-hosted a deep dive discussion into two related crises facing higher ed workers and students alike: debt and labor contingency. Around 50 people joined for two hours on a mid-summer

From Jane Gabin What will it take to convince those paying for higher education that exploiting contingent faculty is bad? While there have been a number of initiatives calling attention to the widespread use of contingent labor in higher education, there has been little reflection of this by 1) counselors (those who advise high school

From Helena Worthen, Chair, HELU Media & Communications Committee In the recent Contingency Task Force discussion on job security for contingent faculty, the Garcetti case was mentioned. Here is a non-lawyer’s shakedown of what Garcetti means when we’re talking about job security, whether one is contingent or not. Basically, Garcetti created a false logic to

From Daniel Bayer GREENSBORO – North Carolina presently has the second-lowest union membership in the United States, after South Carolina. But North Carolina has a long history of union organizing. To understand the increasing activity among AAUP higher education advocacy chapters, it is important to learn something about the labor history of North Carolina on

by Josh Dohmen, UCW Mississippi Josh Dohmen wrote the following to respond to common misconceptions about tenure.