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.
Strategies to Abolish Faculty Contingency Tuesday, June 20 @ 4pm PT/5pm MT/6pm CT/7pm ET on Zoom Register to attend More than 75% of faculty in higher ed are contingent. As organizers at Higher Ed Labor United (HELU), we refuse to accept the unjust systems of worker exploitation embedded in our higher ed institutions, and we […]
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We call on HELU member unions and all allies of higher education workers to support striking UW workers. Please donate to the UAW #4121 strike fund, join the pickets if you are in or near the Seattle area, and publicly share messages of support.
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United Faculty of Florida’s fight to protect academic freedom and integrity is all of our fight. Proposed legislation in Florida poses a threat to the public good of higher education, which, in effect, is a threat to free and informed thought across the US. Sign this letter in support of UFF’s efforts to protect academic
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The University of California is laying off teaching faculty while simultaneously granting healthy raises to all other employees. In one such case, UC Davis Lecturer & Director of Choirs Erik Peregrine has been laid off after 1 year of their 2-year contract, generating a civil rights complaint of gender discrimination and a union grievance alleging breach of
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At Virginia Commonwealth University, faculty have been told that as many as 17 current employees, nearly one-third of the Department of Focused Inquiry, may be laid off in order to balance the budget. The Department of Focused Inquiry teaches first-year, foundational seminars that build students’ communication skills, cultural and global competency, research skills, collaboration, and critical thinking.
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Representatives of the five Texas higher ed faculty organizations (Texas AAUP Conference, the American Federation of Teachers,; the Texas Association of College Teachers, the Texas Faculty Association, and the Texas State Employees Union) ask HELU supporters to make phone calls to staff of the Texas Higher Education Committee to protest against three bills coming out of the Texas Senate, SB 16, 17
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This week, April 17, 2023, the Texas Senate is expected to debate and pass two bills that would take effect at all public colleges and universities in Texas on September 1, 2023: Senate Bill 18 would eliminate granting of tenure for all faculty members;Senate Bill 17 would ban DEI (Diversity, Equity and Inclusion) offices, officers,
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Learn about the history of free higher education in the US and hear from the people who are making serious progress to move us once again toward fully funded public higher education that respects workers, empowers communities, ends student debt, and transforms higher ed into a public good in the public interest.
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The 270 Academic support professionals and faculty at Governors State University have been trying to negotiate a new union contract with the university administration for 10 months and have been working without a contract since August of 2022. Academic advisors sometimes have hundreds of students and cannot devote the time necessary to guide them through
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We are the AAUP-AFT, the PTLFC, and BHSNJ and our three unions represent several groups of faculty and other campus employees, including medical faculty, part-time lecturers, graduate students, non-tenure track faculty, and tenure track faculty, at Rutgers University, the flagship university of New Jersey. We have been bargaining for a new contract for nearly a
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