HELU Events

CANCELED – September 23 – Better One-on-Ones with International Workers

We are in the process of rescheduling this event. We apologize for the inconvenience. Virtual workshop for ICWP volunteers to more effectively organize international campus workers Hosted by the HELU International Campus Worker Protections Group (ICWP) Tuesday, September 23 @ 7pm ET/ 6 CT/ 5 MT/ 4 PT Register here Many of our Higher Ed […]

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August 18 – Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Bill: Higher Ed Fights Back!

Join us for our upcoming webinar “Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Bill: Higher Ed Fights Back” on Monday, August 18th at 7:30 PM ET/ 6:30 CT / 5:30 MT / 4:30 PT. We’ll be joined by Sara Garcia, a policy analyst for Senator Bernie Sanders on the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee (HELP). Sara will walk us through the parts

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August 4 – International campus worker and student organizing meeting

Attacks from the Trump administration are putting international students and workers in our campuses at risk. Mass SEVIS terminations, cancellations of Visa appointments, targeted attacks against Chinese nationals, ICE detentions and threats of raids in our campuses are making our jobs, our livelihoods, and the mission of our institutions unsafe. These actions follow the same

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August 14 – HELU Open House

As you know, 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 in advance by cutting programs and taking extreme actions against “problematic” faculty and our international students and workers. Higher ed workers – staff, faculty, university healthcare

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July 30 – Building Campus Solidarity Across Job Categories: Lessons from Recent Strikes & Adjunct Struggles

Speakers include:Todd Wolfson, President, American Association of University ProfessorsDiana Vallera, President, Columbia College Faculty UnionBryan Sacks, Immediate Past President, Rutgers Adjunct UnionSydney Brahmavar, Secretary, Clark College Association of Higher Educators Join the Contingency Taskforce (CTF) of Higher Ed Labor United (HELU), Wednesday, July 30, from 6-8pm ET, for an urgent strategy discussion of how we

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April 1 – How the Department of Education’s Destruction Impacts Higher Ed

The U.S. Department of Education provides vital services and support both for higher education and K-12, but its impacts aren’t always clear. Join us on April 1 to discuss what higher education loses when the Department of Education is destroyed and how we can respond collectively. We will provide details on organizing next steps. We

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April 8 – Participate in a “Kill the Cuts!” Action

By cutting funds to lifesaving research and medical care, the Trump administration is abandoning families who are suffering and costing taxpayers billions of dollars. These cuts are dangerous to our health, and dangerous to our economy. On Tuesday, April 8th, 2025 workers across the country are standing up and demanding NO cuts to education and

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April 17 – Host an Event for the National Day of Action for Higher Education

From our colleagues at the Coalition for Action in Higher Education: As campus workers and citizens, educators and researchers, staff, students, and university community members, we exercise a powerful collective voice in advancing the democratic mission of our colleges and universities. It is our labor and our ideas which sustain higher education as a project

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Feb 25 – Viewing Party & Phone Bank: Labor for Higher Education Rally Against Trump Cuts to Critical Research and Education

On Tuesday, February 25, labor leaders and organizers representing hundreds of thousands of higher education and allied workers will rally in D.C. to expose how Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s attacks on research and higher education funding are decimating public health while siphoning off public resources for private gain. At the same time, hundreds of

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