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Report authored by United Academics AFT-AAUP Local 3209’s Communications & Action Team Amidst devastating cuts across higher ed, our faculty union at the University of Oregon saw a victory in averting a summertime plan by our administration to eliminate ~25 tenure-track faculty and ~10 degree programs. Inspired by Rutgers’ “wall-to-wall” union model, we fought to […]

 Helena Worthen, Co-chair with Evan Bowman, HELU Media/Comms At the HELU General Assembly on November 20, 2025, HELU delegates will elect new Officers and Steering Committee. All HELU Officer and Steering Committee roles are up for election. The term of the new leadership will be January 2026 until January 2028. If you are a Delegate,

 Helena Worthen, Co-chair with Evan Bowman, Media/Comms HELU On September 16, 20 unions representing workers in the University of California system filed a 123-page lawsuit against 48 defendants, starting with President Trump and Attorney General Pam Bondi, in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. Item #300 is about the 160 people

Bobby Huggins, PhD student and organizer at Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri and organizer with HELU’s International Campus Worker Protections Campaign The Trump administration’s attacks on foreign workers in general, and international students in particular, has been nothing short of harrowing. We are all familiar with the headlines regarding students who have been kidnapped off the

Stephanie Luce, Professional Staff Congress (PSC), CUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies Labor is one the most trusted messengers on political and economic issues for members and working-class voters outside of union membership. But a recent study found “that most unions did not provide consistent messaging to their members about economic developments like inflation.

David Milroy, Carol Whaley, Carlynne Allbee, and Arnie Schoenberg, members of the HELU Contingency Task Force Over 10 thousand people marched through downtown San Diego on Labor Day, with demonstrators calling for stronger labor protections and government investment in essential services. The rally and march, organized by several labor unions, including SEIU and other groups,

 Kimberly Terrell, Ph.D. Research Scientist, Environmental Integrity Project What would higher education look like if universities started proactively dismantling academic freedom, without waiting for a federal mandate? At a time when colleges and universities across the nation are struggling to defend themselves from political interference, Louisiana is taking a preemptive approach. This past summer, two

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