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June 11: Contingency Contract Language Exchange and Strategy Session

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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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Higher Education Labor United (HELU) sets course for wall-to-wall, coast-to-coast movement at Founding Convention

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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

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Higher Education Labor United (HELU) to Host Founding Convention at Rutgers University May 17-19, 2024

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[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

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Higher Education Workers Condemn College & University Crackdown on Peaceful Protestors

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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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HELU is Hiring: Convention Coordinator

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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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A HELU Roundtable in Los Angeles

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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

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March 28 – The Big Con in Higher Ed: How Consulting Firms Are Transforming the University and How to Fight Back

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Thursday, March 28, 20247pm ET/6pm CT/5pm MT/4pm PTVirtual Forum on Zoom – Register here Please join us for a discussion with experts tracking the methods and impact of these firms and possible tactics to oppose them. Lisa Levenstein (University of North Carolina, Greensboro) will facilitate a conversation with: Part of #LaborSpring Co-sponsored by: Register here.

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National Day of Action for Higher Ed: Get Involved

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AAUP-Penn is working together with many higher ed unions, AAUP chapters, HELU members, and student organizations across the country to plan a National Day of Action for Higher Education that will take place on April 17. The aim is not just to beat back the current attacks on academic freedom and on campus protests, DEI bans, and devastating budget

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HELU’s Contingency Task Force: Building Movement in March!

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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

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Is HELU’s “wall-to-wall and coast-to-coast” too ambitious?

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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

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