Helena Worthen, Co-Chair, Media/Comms, National Writers Union A new HELU Steering Committee will be seated in January 2026 for a two-year term. Elections for these positions will take place on Thursday, November 20, 2025. Why run for these positions? Things are moving fast. Run because you are ready to join others and put some energy […]
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Joe Berry, delegate from AFT 2121 City College of San Francisco, member of HELU Outreach Committee and liaison with the National Labor Commission of DSA The 2025 Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) Convention was held in Chicago at McCormick place August 7-10. DSA had invited over 20 allied organizations to come so TJ Acena, Jenna
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The University of Maryland, College Park, has over 5,000 faculty members, of which 2,300 are non-tenure track researchers dependent on grant funding and cooperative agreements with federal agencies. The UMD chapter of United Academics of Maryland began during the pandemic as an AAUP advocacy chapter. With help from AAUP and AFT, it is fighting to
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From Mike Budd, United Faculty of Florida and Higher Education Labor United Governors in Old Confederacy States Authorize Their Own Accreditation Cartel Governors and other politicians in at least seven southern states are reportedly making plans to replace the current accreditor, the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS), with a new, politically conservative accrediting
From Levin Kim, HELU Chair and member of UAW 4121, student workers, researchers and postdocs at the University of Washington Over the first six months in office, the Trump Administration attempted to gut funding for crucial research, attack immigrant and non-citizen workers, curtail academic freedom and freedom of speech, and more. These attacks on higher
From Ian Gavigan, HELU Executive Director and Levin Kim, Chair of HELU and member of UAW 4121 On July 17 and 18, Levin Kim and Executive Director Ian Gavigan traveled to Chicago for the second national May Day Strong convening hosted by the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU). HELU’s delegation to the first May Day Strong
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From TJ Acena, HELU Secretary-Treasurer and member of AFSCME Local 328 On August 9th, representatives from Higher Education Labor United will be attending the Democratic Socialists of American biennial convention in Chicago to take part in their first ever Cross-Organizational Political Exchange. HELU, a coalition of local labor unions and labor-related organizations, along with other
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HELU has sponsored roundtables with regional and state-level higher ed locals and allied organizations around the country. This is a report on what has been going on with the Michigan state coalition. Others are in the works. –Editor From Anke Wolbert and Sean O’Brien. Anke Wolbert is on the HELU Steering Committee and is President
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From Bruce Simon, SUNY Faculty Senate President and a member of Fredonia NY UUP Hours before the signing of the federal budget reconciliation megabill, ten current and former leaders of SUNY’s and CUNY’s governance bodies issued a July 4 declaration. Candice Vacin, President of the SUNY Faculty Council of Community Colleges (FCCC), described it as “a
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From Nataly Reed, a member of United Campus Workers Arizona, a CWA affiliate and HELU member If it weren’t so devastating, it would be comic timing. Every year, contingent faculty, specifically lecturers with academic year appointments, at the University of Arizona are laid off in May. Then, in the fall, some are hired back in
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