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Higher Education Labor United (HELU) sets course for wall-to-wall, coast-to-coast movement at Founding Convention

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[New Brunswick, May 19, 2024] – This weekend, May 17-19, Higher Education Labor United (HELU) hosted its Founding Convention. The Convention brought together over 185 educators, staff, students, and organizers from across the country for three days of learning, discussion, and organization-building. Delegates from more than 40 HELU Member Organizations participated in-person at Rutgers University […]

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Higher Education Labor United (HELU) to Host Founding Convention at Rutgers University May 17-19, 2024

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[New Brunswick, May 15, 2024] – Higher Education Labor United (HELU) is pleased to announce its Founding Convention, scheduled to take place at the Labor Education Center at Rutgers University and online May 17-19. The Convention will bring together educators, staff, students, and organizers from across higher education labor to address pressing issues facing workers

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Diverse: “Faculty Groups To Hold National Day of Action April 17”

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“American Association of University Professors chapters plan to join Higher Education Labor United, the American Federation of Teachers, and other higher education unions and student organizations in the event is deemed a coordinated nationwide counter-offensive against a sustained assault on American higher education as a public good.” Read more here.

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The Lens NOLA: Let the bargaining begin

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“Last year alone, [Inside Higher Ed] reported, 26 new bargaining units earned voluntary recognition or certification – that represents more than 40,000 researchers, post-doctoral workers and graduate-student workers on higher-ed campuses. A developing organization, Higher Ed Labor United, or HELU, is also trying to forge a national coalition of higher-ed workers, those in a union

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Common Dreams: “Biden and the Democrats Better Fight Like Hell for Student Debt Relief”

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“PDA is proud to be a founding member of a coalition convened by Higher Education Labor United (HELU) that is calling for exactly that. Free, or almost free, higher public education was the norm across America only a few decades ago—and it was central to the unprecedented wealth and growth of American society in the

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Colleges and universities are under attack. HELU is going on the offensive – join us.

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Colleges and universities are under attack. HELU is going on the offensive – join us. In the past few days, disastrous Supreme Court decisions struck down affirmative action and overturned Biden’s partial student debt cancelation program. This confirms once again: we need a fighting movement to rebuild U.S. higher education. From the Supreme Court to

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Higher Ed For All Takes the Offensive Against Neoliberal Budget Strategy

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Recent events in Connecticut highlight the urgency of our current fight over higher education and the need to tie these issues into one offensive strategy. When a Democratic governor, in one of the wealthiest states with a budget surplus, pushes for $500-600 million in cuts to higher education over two years – we’re seeing the

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Monthly Review: “New Deal for Higher Ed w/ Jennifer Mittelstadt”

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“Higher Education Labor United, for people who don’t know, is like a cross-union organization that brings together people in different higher education unions across the country who really want to pursue what I would call the closest model that exists right now: College For All. Their vision of protecting labor and higher education has to

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Dispatch from the Front Line: United Faculty of Florida in Resistance Against DeSantis’s Fascism

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“Florida Teachers Unions are Front Line of Resistance Against DeSantis’s Fascism.” This headline from a vital interview with Paul Ortiz in Truthout on April 1, 2023 catches the mood in the United Faculty of Florida and its large K-12 affiliate, the Florida Education Association, in the face of the current onslaught of hostile legislation and well-publicized right-wing attacks against virtually every

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