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 […]
July 29 – Raise Hell for Pell: Double it NOW! Read More »
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
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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
April 22 – May Day Strong: Students and Workers Rise Up on May Day Read More »
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 CUNY Graduate Center Chapter of the Professional Staff Congress: The CUNY Graduate Center Chapter of the Professional Staff Congress is hosting a stop on Tom Alter’s Defend Free Speech tour! Come listen to Tom and Noelle discuss the struggle for free speech on campus, and join the discussion on how
April 27: Stand Up for Free Speech & Academic Freedom at CUNY Graduate Center Read More »
Please register early to receive more information. HELU’s new Quarterly Open Delegate Discussions (QODDs) will allow HELU Delegates a chance to meet each other and talk though current issues on HELU’s radar. Our first QODD will be April 21 at 7pm ET/6pm CT/5pm MT/4pm PT on Zoom. Register here This particular discussion group is only
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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
April 8 – Distributed Organizing Training Read More »
HELU’s next Open House is Wednesday, February 18 at 4 ET / 3 CT / 2 MT / 1 PT. Register here. Register for February 18 HELU Open House Higher education remains the target of continued political attacks from the federal government. College and university administrations remain too slow in their response with many obeying
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Join HELU member union leaders from around the country Tuesday, January 27 at 7 ET / 6 CT / 5 MT / 4 PT to learn about how to use HELU’s candidate questionnaire to gather information and education higher education workers, students, and allies about where candidates for public office stand on our issues. This
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