HELU Events

College shouldn’t require mortgaging your future. No student should graduate with crushing debt. But the college affordability crisis is also an existential crisis for our institutions. When students lose financial aid, enrollment and tuition revenue decline, putting pressure on colleges to cut academic programs, faculty and staff positions, and student services—and, in severe cases, close […]

Welcome Reception / October 23 / 6-8 PM Central / Chicago, ILWorkshop / October 24 / 9AM-5 PM Central / University of Illinois-Chicago  Employers and legislators are pushing Ed Tech and Artificial Intelligence through universities and colleges across the USA. Organized labor needs a comprehensive response that builds our organizing capacity through bargaining and advocacy

Time: 7pm ET/6pm CT/5pm MT/4pm PTLocation: Online – Register hereJoin students, faculty, staff, alumni, and community members from across the country for a Campus Organizing Assembly to launch the Raise Hell for Pell campaign. The fight to protect and expand Pell Grants is about protecting the program now and winning a new higher education system

The Graduate Labor Organization at Brown University (GLO-AFT Local 6516) and Higher Education Labor United (HELU) invite you to a deep-dive session about grievance procedures, anti-discrimination protections, and organizing to win better and more comprehensive defenses in our workplaces. This is a hybrid event. Please register to attend either online or in-person using this form.

With HELU members PSC-CUNY and Rutgers AAUP-AFT, HELU is co-hosting a NYC-area congressional town hall. Join us in-person at PSC’s Union Hall (25 Broadway, 15th floor) for a town hall featuring candidates running for U.S. Congress in the June 23rd primary. We will spend 15 minutes with each candidate, including Chuck Park (NY-6), Claire Valdez

Date & Time: Wednesday, April 22, 8 – 9:15pm EDT Students and workers are rising up on May Day! Join us for a MASS CALL to hear how students and workers are organizing for freedom, affordability, and safety all across the country. Get the tools you need to host a May Day action at your

Prioritizing Faculty Equality to Defend Higher Education: Sunday, April 26, 3-5pm ET (2-4pm CT, 1-3pm MT, 12-2pm PT) Register for the zoom forum here: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/WZntS-qRQFyCjcnWihF98g#/registration  Featuring voices from Higher Ed Labor United’s Contingency Task Force:  This “coast to coast” HELU panel will feature a range of institutional and strategic viewpoints about the obstacles to unity and solidarity

From our colleagues at the Emergency Campaign to Support Higher Education: We Have to Get Smaller to Get Bigger — The Foundation of Distributed Organizing At a basic level, people need meaningful roles to stay engaged. As your organization grows, responsibilities must be distributed effectively. Small teams are the best structure — they allow members