From Helena Worthen: Why is CWA campaigning to create a federal public sector collective bargaining law? Their campaign message explains: There is currently no federal law that guarantees public sector workers the freedom to organize or engage in collective bargaining. That’s why we are demanding Congress pass the Public Service Freedom to Negotiate Act to […]
From Helena Worthen Organizers from North Dakota United (NDU) recently met with HELU organizers to discuss ND higher education workers’ situation and make connections with activists in other states. NDU is an 11,000 member state-level education and public employee union. In 2023, with the help of NDU advocacy, a bill in the North Dakota legislature,
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From Justine Hecht and Joe Ramsey Contingency Contract Language and Strategy Exchange On June 11, 2024 Higher Education Labor United’s Contingency Task Force (CTF) joined with HELU member organization, the Massachusetts Teachers Association (MTA), alongside MTA’s Higher Education for All campaign, to co-host a “Contingency Contract Language Exchange and Strategy Session.” Over 60 adjunct and contingent
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From Ian Gavigan, HELU Recent developments in the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) show how HELU’s principles are reshaping the higher education labor movement. In a landslide victory, the United Faculty of the Common Good (UFCG) slate won four of the five open seats on AAUP’s National Council in the election held at the
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A teach-in on the financial, moral, and educational obligations of a shuttered university June 10, 20245pm ET/4pm CT/3pm MT/2pm PT During this teach-in members of Debt Collective and authors of Lend and Rule will examine the debt realities of University of the Arts (Philadelphia), and engage in dialogue with participants about what the university owes, or doesn’t,
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Tuesday, June 11, 2024 5pm ET/4pm CT/3pm MT/2pm PT Join adjunct, contingent, and part-time faculty leaders from Massachusetts and across the country as we share and explore contract language related to contingent, adjunct, and part-time faculty contracts, and the strategies that are needed to win the contract improvements we need. This is an opportunity to
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[New Brunswick, May 19, 2024] – This weekend, May 17-19, Higher Education Labor United (HELU) hosted its Founding Convention. The Convention brought together over 185 educators, staff, students, and organizers from across the country for three days of learning, discussion, and organization-building. Delegates from more than 40 HELU Member Organizations participated in-person at Rutgers University
[New Brunswick, May 15, 2024] – Higher Education Labor United (HELU) is pleased to announce its Founding Convention, scheduled to take place at the Labor Education Center at Rutgers University and online May 17-19. The Convention will bring together educators, staff, students, and organizers from across higher education labor to address pressing issues facing workers
Higher Education Labor United (HELU) stands with many others in the U.S. labor movement in condemning the arrests and disciplinary actions recently taken by a growing list of college and university leaders at Cal Poly Humboldt, Columbia, Emerson, Emory, NYU, The Ohio State University, Yale, the Universities of Minnesota, Southern California, Texas at Austin, and
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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
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