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.
If you’re a worker in the NYC area, sign this pledge not to break any NYC-area higher ed strikes (in addition to part-time faculty at The New School, workers at Rutgers, Fordham, Pratt, and CUNY are all currently in negotiations). Recently, administration at The New School, whose part-time faculty are in the third week of […]
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The strike called by the part-time faculty of the New School, who constitute 87 percent of its teaching staff and who have been joined in the strike by many full-time faculty and students, is currently in its third week. Workers rejected the university’s “last, best, and final” offer last week with 95% voting no. UAW
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Faculty Alliance of Miami AAUP-AFT (FAM) calls on community allies to help share some L.U.V. and support the faculty at Miami University in Ohio by signing this petition. Despite FAM’s certified majority of faculty who filed cards to support union recognition and election, Miami is delaying our vote by attempting to exclude non-tenure-track faculty (including librarians and
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ACT-UAW Local 7902, the union of part-time faculty workers at The New School, has been on strike since Wednesday, Nov. 16. These workers haven’t had a raise since 2018 and The New School is refusing to offer pay increases that, at a minimum, meet inflation. Friends of The New School are invited to a Town
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Decades of attacks have starved the NLRB of the resources it needs. This means that union elections are delayed and bosses can retaliate against workers with impunity at this crucial moment in labor organizing. This could have a direct impact on higher ed organizing. NLRB workers are asking that unions and other labor-related organizations sign
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Our siblings in United Faculty of Florida are asking higher ed workers around the country to lend support as Florida faculty fight back against efforts to eliminate tenure. If the right-wing agenda to eliminate tenure in Florida succeeds, it will set us all back by threatening the academic and intellectual freedoms and erode job security that
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With a 99% strike authorization vote, Temple University Graduate Students’ Association (TUGSA) is ready to strike. Show solidarity by: TUGSA has been in negotiations with Temple U. administration since January 2022 and has been without a contract since February 2022. Temple administration has refused to discuss the majority of TUGSA’s proposals and claim that they
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From our union siblings at United Campus Workers Alabama: At the University of Alabama (and across the country), adjunct faculty worked tirelessly throughout the pandemic, many teaching the same course loads as full-time instructors, but without university-sponsored health insurance. UA graduate workers are also a critical part of the teaching work force and face tremendous
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The Adjunct faculty of Rutgers University teach 30% of Rutgers courses. Despite teaching a third of classes, adjunct faculty’s salaries comprise less than 1% of the University’s budget, and these workers are not offered affordable healthcare coverage or job security. They’ve been working without a contact since June, and Rutgers’ top management has stalled negotiations
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48,000 Academic Workers at the University of California began striking Monday, Nov. 14, 2022. Show your solidarity by contributing to the UC Academic Workers Strike Support and Hardship Fund! This is the official hardship fund of UAW 2865, UAW 5810, and Student Researchers United-UAW. This fund will be used to help Academic Workers who experience hardship as a
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