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Shelly Baskin, Delegate to HELU from United Campus Workers Southeast (CWA 3821) Faculty and staff in the Georgia University system are being told that they have to come in to work five days a week or get laid off. Some of these workers were originally hired as remote workers and live at significant distances from their […]

Brendan McGovern, President, United University Professions Binghamton Chapter New York has always believed in investing in its people, public higher education, health care, infrastructure, social supports. We send far more in federal tax revenue to Washington than our state receives back in federal aid. In short, we are a giver state. And now we are being

Meghan McGowan, Health Sciences librarian and member of and HELU delegate to Wayne Academic Union (AAUP-AFT Local 6075) President Trump’s so-called “compact” (actually a threat) asks higher ed administrative leaders to agree to a long list of changes that will fundamentally end academic freedom across the board as well as impact student loans, admissions, grant

Shannan Clark, Montclair University, NJ and Delegate to HELU from SNDHE Founded in 2020 during the initial phase of the COVID-19 pandemic, Scholars for a New Deal for Higher Education (SNDHE) is a group of teachers and researchers committed to rebuilding our colleges and universities so that they can be a true public resource for

By Robert Cassanello, HELU Delegate and President of the United Faculty of Florida (UFF) and Marcus Polzer, President of University of Central Florida Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) On Tuesday October 21, 2025 the UCF Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), the UCF Young Democratic Socialists of America (UCF ydsa), Students for Education in

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