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.
Columbia College Faculty Union (CFAC IFT/AFT Local 6602) at Columbia College Chicago is in the midst of the longest adjunct strike in US history. CFAC is a scrappy union that started nearly 25 years ago and was the first private-sector adjunct union in the Chicago area (and one of the first nationally). CFAC has generated […]
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Saturday, December 2, 2023 from 1-3pm, allies and community members are invited to join the Sing Out Shout Out for #APeoplesCUNY. We will join together to SING OUT for a fair contract for the hardworking faculty and staff of CUNY, and we will SHOUT OUT for full funding from our Governor in her upcoming budget
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Higher Education Labor United (HELU) urgently seeks temporary staff through the end of December 2023 for the position of Outreach Data and Financial Coordinator. The Outreach Data and Financial Coordinator serves as the lead for the ongoing development and maintenance of our HELU database (currently HubSpot), as well as financial and technical infrastructure needed to
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In late June, University of California Police arrested 3 workers on felony charges and confiscated their possessions for allegedly writing messages like ‘Living Wage Now’ in washable chalk calling on UC to stop underpaying workers. This is an attack on our fundamental democratic rights and the academic worker labor movement at large. Sign here to demand that
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Sign and circulate this open letter in support of Penn State faculty who are being targeted by the Right — in the form of a lawsuit and public defamation — for their antiracist pedagogy. As you know, these attacks are proliferating around the country, emboldened by recent Orwellian court rulings and state censorship laws. At
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The Florida Board of Governors has suspended Florida Atlantic University’s presidential search, citing dubious claims about violations of Sunshine Laws. United Faculty of Florida’s belief is that this meddling in the FAU search process is motivated by pure partisanship, as the short list of candidates was composed of three highly qualified higher education professionals, instead
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Grad workers from GEO AFT-Michigan Local 3550 at University of Michigan have been on strike for more than four weeks in response to their university administration offering ‘raises’ below the rate of inflation – effective pay cuts – and no solutions to issues facing parent grad workers, transgender grad workers, international grad workers, and more. Donate to their
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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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Palm Beach Atlantic University has egregiously violated a professor’s academic freedom. PBA chose not to renew English Professor Samuel Joeckel’s contract because he included written works from Black authors and civil rights activists in his course material, which prompted one parent to accuse him of “indoctrinating students.” Sign this petition to demand that Dr. Joeckel’s contract
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Sign this petition to join the call for Goldsmiths University in the UK to act on the unjust treatment of Roberto Mozzachiodi, a leading figure in the fight against casualisation at Goldsmiths. Roberto’s specific case mirrors that of thousands across the country employed on temporary, fixed-term, and casualised contracts. We urge all at Goldsmiths and
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