HELU Blog

By Caro Pirri – Steward, United Steelworkers Local 1511. Associate Professor of English, University of Pittsburgh. Member, HELU Media and Comms Committee On August 14th, I sat down with Jen

by Nick Temple, HELU Organizer On June 30, Spelman changed its cleaning contractor from Aramark to Integrity National Corporation. The workers under Aramark had been unionized and covered by a

By Michael Ziegler, GLO-AFT Local 6516 President and HELU Delegate In July, the Graduate Labor Organization at Brown University (GLO-AFT Local 6516) partnered with HELU to host a workshop at

by Thomas Gokey, HELU Delegate from the Debt Collective HELU member organization the Debt Collective began in 2014 with a campaign to organize students who had been defrauded by predatory for-profit

by Chasidy Fisher Hobbs, United Faculty of Florida, UWF chapter President, Senator and HETAC Chair, HELU, FEA, NEA and AFT, Delegate Over the past few years, Florida’s higher education system has

by Payam Barghi, Interim Vice President and Chief Negotiator of Gavilan Student Workers Union (GSWU) Gilroy, California calls itself the “Garlic Capital of the World” and sits just thirty miles

by Tessa Barber, University of South Florida Graduate Assistants United (UFF-USF-GAU) To Be a Florida Grad Worker To be a graduate student worker in Florida is to live pulled between

by Faith Ericson, delegate to HELU from the Minnesota Inter-Faculty Organization (IFO) After serving in two educational unions, I have seen real work to improve conditions for contingent faculty. My