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.
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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United Campus Workers of Arizona need your support to ensure fair working conditions for Contingent Faculty throughout the university system in Arizona. Contingent faculty now comprise at least 53% of all faculty appointments at UA and 61% at ASU, and these numbers continue to rise. Contingent Faculty members are disproportionately women and people of color. We teach the
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Grad workers, GEO AFT-Michigan Local 3550, at the University of Michigan are raising money for a strike fund! Grad workers are not yet on strike, but we need to prepare for action if the university admin continues to refuse to offer meaningful solutions to the serious problems we’re facing. This fund will support grad workers
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Goddard College staff, UAW 2322, are fighting for a Goddard College true to is progressive mission that is able to thrive and grow by embracing respect, inclusion, and transparency for all its constituencies. The administration’s attacks on staff working conditions, authoritarian decision making, and violations of federal labor law deny this opportunity to renew and
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With the legislative session moving rapidly, and bills attacking workers and higher education advancing daily, UFF continues to ask for our solidarity and support. Click here to oppose HB 999, which would eliminate academic programs and tenure. Take action here on the Senate companion bill, SB 266. Click here to email the members of the
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Over 50 years ago, Berkeley students joined with other university students and civil rights activists from around the country to promote and expand voting rights in Mississippi. “Freedom Summer” remains an iconic moment in the Civil Rights movement, the history of student activism in the U.S., and in the political engagement culture at Berkeley as
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Current graduate student stipends and benefits at Vanderbilt University’s Peabody College of Education and Human Development are not substantial enough to alleviate the severe economic burdens imposed by the increasing costs of living in the city of Nashville. Sign the petition for fair pay at Peabody. Most Peabody PhD student workers receive $28,000 stipends. This
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Call on NY Governor Hochul to fully fund public higher education as a public good. The share of SUNY and CUNY core operating costs paid for by student tuition and fees must be significantly decreased. This must be made possible by increasing the share of public funds going to public higher education in Gov. Hochul’s
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