Solidarity Asks

From our colleagues at UNITE HERE Local 11: The food service workers, represented by UNITE HERE Local 11, have served thousands of students daily the entire school year. ASU food service workers are a key part of the university community, and they need and deserve fair and livable wages, adequate staffing, affordable health insurance, and […]

From our colleagues at UC-AFT Local 1474 Merced Chapter: UC Merced’s commitment to academic excellence has been — and continues to be — at serious risk. Per-student education funding has fallen to the lowest level in the UC system. The student credit hours funding model has compounded this problem by incentivizing larger classes and fewer

From our colleagues at Teachers and Researchers United at Johns Hopkins University (TRU-UE Local 197): Hopkins continues to ignore TRU’s demands while holding demonstrators under constant surveillance. Coworkers, friends, comrades, and community, please join us in applying pressure on JHU to meet our demands by sending this email to the president, vice provost, and other

Higher ed workers across the country, show solidarity with higher ed workers on strike in Illinois and Massachusetts – send us your solidarity photos and videos! Feel free to print and use the flyers linked below. Please send solidarity photos and videos to info@higheredlaborunited.org or tag us in your posts! All solidarity flyers in one

From our colleagues at AFSCME Local 1110 at Illinois State University: Buildings, grounds and dining services workers do tough, essential jobs to support students and faculty at Illinois State University. But they’re paid as little as $16.60 an hour, half make less than a living wage for a single adult, and they’ve had no raise

From our colleagues at AfSCME 3299: The University of California is in trouble. Over 13,000 frontline UC Service and Patient Care Workers have left their jobs in the last four years due to declining job quality, chronic understaffing, declining wages, and the inability to afford living near work. But frontline workers are fighting back and

From our colleagues at SEIU 509: The Core faculty at Lesley University consists of about 80 Full time Non-Tenure-Track (NTT) professors who have been bargaining for TWO YEARS. Yesterday, April 27, they bargained from noon well into the night, but still couldn’t get the University to budge on important proposals like compensation, workload, and successorship,

From our colleagues at SEIU Local 73: Union faculty at Loyola University Chicago (LUC) need your support as we bargain for a fair contract! Nearly half of Loyola classes are taught by non-tenure-track faculty. However, Loyola NTTs receive less than a quarter of the dollars spent on salary. Full-timers struggle to manage burnout teaching loads

From our colleagues at the Graduate Employees Organization at University of Illinois Chicago (UIC-GEO): UIC-GEO has been bargaining with the university administration for a new contract since April 28th, 2025 – nearly an entire year. They have been working without a new contract since August of 2025. Throughout this process the university administration has made

From our colleagues at 32BJ-SEIU: Tufts workers are asking folks to write a letter to university leadership in support of an excellent union contract for facilities staff represented by SEIU 32BJ. Their core demands are: The labor performed by SEIU 32BJ is essential to keeping Tufts running and its academic output cutting-edge. These union members