Solidarity Asks

HELU Solidarity Asks come from higher education labor organizations looking to build solidarity with workers on a larger national or regional basis, to drive participation in a particular action or campaign that supports higher ed workers. This can include (but is not limited to) contributing to strike funds, writing letters to policy-makers, signing petitions, participation in virtual or in-person actions, and more. To submit a solidarity ask, please complete the form here.

Support PCCFFAP and its members during a potential strike

From our colleagues at Portland Community College Faculty Federation and Academic Professionals (PCCFFAP): Part-Time Faculty, Full-Time Faculty, and Academic Professionals at Portland Community College are standing up for each other, for our students, for our communities, and for great public education. Sign this pledge to stand united with PCC workers in demanding a contract that […]

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Submit Faculty Feedback to CPHE Accreditation Standards

From our colleagues at the AAUP: A new accrediting body—the Commission for Public Higher Education (CPHE)—is seeking public feedback on proposed evidentiary guidance for accreditation standards that would govern public university systems in Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, Tennessee, and Texas, as well as the University of South Carolina system. Although the CPHE’s standards would initially

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Tell Father Shanley: Hands off St. John’s Faculty Unions!

From our colleagues at St. John’s University AAUP: Last Thursday, President Father Shanley sent a letter to faculty announcing that the administration will no longer recognize our 56-year-old faculty union. This comes just after passing the one-year mark in contract negotiations—negotiations where his team has refused to agree to affordable salaries that keep pace with

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Stand with CSU Teamsters on Strike Feb 17-20!

From our colleagues at Teamsters Local 2010: In California? Help Teamsters 2010 win fair treatment by joining a picket line near you – Strike at all 22 Cal State University Campuses! Picket times & locations: https://teamsters2010.org/FIGHT/ Anywhere else or can’t join a picket? Send a letter supporting CSU workers here. Teamsters Local 2010 is conducting

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Join Labor Spring 2026

From our colleagues at Georgetown University’s Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor: Join Labor Spring 2026, a series of events and gatherings supporting working people on campuses and in communities nationwide, organized by local committees.  See the Labor Spring 2026 Call for Participation here Sign Up for Labor Spring 2026 here Many Labor

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Sign GROW’s Open Letter on Purdue’s Graduate Admission Discrimination

From our colleagues at Graduate Rights and Our Wellbeing (GROW) and ResLife Organized Workers at Purdue: In Fall 2025, faculty whistleblowers revealed that Purdue has a list of “most dangerous countries.” The university administration has told graduate admissions committees that students from these countries are highly unlikely to be admitted, even if they receive departmental

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February 23 – Film and online panel discussion: “Precarious Workers: Exploitation and Fightback”

Film and online panel discussion: “Precarious Workers: Exploitation and Fightback” Film viewing online availability: February 14 – 24 Online panel discussion: February 23, 7 – 8:30 PM MST The documentary In Search of Professor Precarious, by filmmaker Gerry Potter, and a panel discussion on “Precarious Workers: Exploitation and Fightback” are being presented online by the Alberta Labour

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Support Sang Hea Kil, first tenured full professor fired from a public U.S. university for speaking out against genocide.

That has never happened before in our country—not during the McCarthy scare, not during the Vietnam war. Yet now, university administrations, following the lead of an openly fascist presidential administration, are dutifully punishing educators for speaking, teaching, and standing up for the truth, and for standing with students determined to do the same.  Firing Sang

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Stop Penn from firing most Graduate Student Resident Advisors!

From our colleagues at United RAs at Penn–OPEIU Local 153: United RAs at Penn–OPEIU Local 153 has learned that Graduate Student Resident Advisors who also perform research or instructional services may be forced out of their position by Penn. This illegal, unilateral action by Penn seeks to leave dozens of graduate workers without stable housing

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