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.
Our union siblings at United Faculty of Florida (UFF) are asking all of us to join the fight to protect FL public higher education and academic freedom. “DeSantis and his team have made systematic efforts to dismantle the freedoms of students and faculty to teach and learn,” says UFF President Andrew Gothard. “Since 2021, DeSantis has pushed through […]
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Adjunct Faculty United (AFT 6106 – AdFac), a union of adjunct faculty in the North Orange County Community College District (NOCCCD), asks for solidarity in their fight for fair wages and benefits for adjunct faculty. NOCCCD has not agreed to AdFac’s proposal for healthcare. Under new state law, it would cost the district nothing to
Pennsylvania State University has proposed a merger of Penn State Law with the Penn State Dickinson School of Law. The merger would result in dissolving Penn State Law and threaten the existence of a law school presence in University Park to the detriment of its students. Current plans would put all of Penn State Law’s
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University of Oregon Student Workers (UOSW) began a card-signing drive for a wall-to-wall student worker union in October 2022. In multiple instances since then, managers, supervisors, and other representatives of the University of Oregon have discouraged and deterred union organizing in violation of the Oregon Public Employee Collective Bargaining Act. UOSW calls on the university
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Sign the petition for a living wage for faculty at all New Mexico colleges and universities. The establishment of a comparable minimum salary for full-time and part-time faculty at New Mexico’s colleges and universities will achieve parity among the state’s public educators and ensure that New Mexico’s public colleges and universities will be able to
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Workers in Maryland’s public institutions of higher education are organizing to pass legislation allowing them to engage in collective bargaining. Collective bargaining is a fundamental right of all workers, but educators in Maryland state institutions of higher education are denied this right under current law. Collective bargaining between university educators and administration is the best
At the end of 2022, administrators at Eastern Kentucky University sent down word of a “soft” hiring freeze. This freeze is just one more item on a list of unfair decisions made by university administrators without input from the employees they impact. The unjust and unethical status quo doesn’t work. It leads to rapid burnout
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Princeton Graduate Students United is a group of graduate students committed to winning the right and the opportunity to have a say in the terms and conditions of our employment here at Princeton. Through ground-up, grassroots organization, we are identifying the needs and concerns of Princeton graduate student workers and the ways in which we can improve our relationship with
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Sign this open letter to stand with the Graduate Employees’ Organization (GEO) in their contract negotiations for a living wage. Grad workers’ compensation should reflect the value they provide to the University. Graduate workers teach a majority of discussion sections and introductory classes, create ground-breaking research, and play a central role to the University’s educational
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A petition for anyone generally concerned with the state of public higher education in Colorado. Across the country, including at the University of Colorado, non-tenure track (NTT) contingent faculty make up the majority of university faculty and represent the future of higher education, yet these workers are compensated at a fraction of what tenured and