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.

Tell Penn: Pay your (G)RAs!

“Resident Advisors at Penn are on the frontlines of student health and well-being at Penn. “In September 2023, 87% of RAs voted in favor of unionizing with OPEIU 153. This decision reflected RAs collective resolve to have more input and fair compensation for their substantial contributions to campus life. “While (G)RAs have had some success

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Higher Education Workers Condemn College & University Crackdown on Peaceful Protestors

Higher Education Labor United (HELU) stands with many others in the U.S. labor movement in condemning the arrests and disciplinary actions recently taken by a growing list of college and university leaders at Cal Poly Humboldt, Columbia, Emerson, Emory, NYU, The Ohio State University, Yale, the Universities of Minnesota, Southern California, Texas at Austin, and

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Tell NYU: Recognize The SWAN Union

Student Workers at NYU (SWAN), Resident Assistants are unionizing! NYU student workers are unionizing for various reasons. Some of the goals we could achieve through collective bargaining are better pay and benefits, work-life boundaries, improved training, clearer boundaries for job role, consistency and transparency. Tell Linda Mills, president of NYU, and the board to acknowledge

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Solidarity Ask from Student Workers of Columbia (SWC-UAW 2710) – Against the Repression of Protest

“On April 18th, Minouche Shafik, the President of Columbia, violated university procedures and authorized the NYPD to arrest dozens of Columbia students, including members of Student Workers of Columbia— SWC-UAW 2710. The protesting students and student workers had bravely held the Gaza Solidarity Encampment on the lawn in the center of campus for two days,

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Solidarity Ask from UCW Alabama: Give Jacksonville State Workers a Living Wage

All workers at Jax State deserve to be paid a living wage. For too long, employees of the university have not been fairly compensated for their work. We are calling on President Don Killingsworth to increase wages for hourly workers to align with the cost of living in Northeast Alabama. Sign the petition to let

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Academic Freedom Under Attack in Texas: Sign the open letter in support of Jairo Fúnez-Flores

From our colleagues at the Texas Conference of the AAUP: Academic workers, please consider signing this statement in support of Texas Tech assistant professor Jairo I. Fúnez-Flores, who has been targeted, doxxed, and slandered due to his pro-Palestine commitment and online speech. We believe that regardless of their own political positions all scholars should be

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Protect Free Speech and Shared Governance at Arizona’s Public Universities

From our friends at UCW Arizona: Sign UCW Arizona’s petition to Governor Hobbs, asking her to veto several bills that would severely diminish free speech and dissolve shared governance at Arizona’s public universities. Shared governance is the democratic process in which educators, staff, and students, jointly decide the academic activities of the university. Academic freedom is the right of educators

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