Solidarity Asks

Grad workers at Boston University are on strike as of Monday, March 25, “calling for better pay, improved health care coverage and guaranteed childcare subsidies, among other demands.” The rank and file of the Boston University Graduate Workers Union (BUGWU) has created an independent Hardship Fund, sponsored by the Jamaica Plain non-profit bookstore, the Lucy […]

From Teachers & Researchers United (UE Local 197) at Johns Hopkins University: Support TRU-UE Local 197’s strike fund! We represent graduate workers at Johns Hopkins and have been bargaining our first contract for nearly a year. Johns Hopkins continues to stall on our core issues: competitive wages and fair benefits. We are preparing to strike if the university

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

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

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

Portland State University administration has announced the decision to eliminate the Intensive English Language Program (IELP), terminating the positions of 12 PSU-AAUP represented employees as of July 1st. Our colleagues at PSU-AAUP have asked for solidarity from HELU member organizations. Please participate in these two letter writing campaigns:

Tabassum Tamanna, a graduate student-employee in the Pathobiology program at Brown University, was sexually harassed and assaulted by another University employee while working in the Robert W. Sobol laboratory at Brown. Brown’s Title IX office delayed her case for nine months before ultimately dismissing it, only because the University declined to re-hire her assailant. Now,

In early February, many employees at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill had a double parking deduction from their paychecks due to university error. Many of these employees are in the lower pay bands at the university, and this error deeply affects their ability to pay their bills and survive to the beginning of the month. Additionally,

SUNY is pursuing a plan that will ultimately close SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University Hospital (SUNY Downstate Hospital). This plan is poor public policy, which will reduce health care in Brooklyn, undermine the hospital’s central mission, and harm the Brooklyn communities it serves. Downstate was NYS’s sole COVID-only hospital during the pandemic. Sadly, the key

From our colleagues at AFT 2121: City College of San Francisco is a gem of California public education. Right now its faculty need your support.  City College has been overdeducting from faculty paychecks for OPEB (retirement funds) for years from hundreds of faculty in a clear case of wage theft. When the faculty union AFT