Higher ed labor is organizing. Learn more and join us. January 2026 HELU Chair’s Message From Levin Kim, HELU Chair and member of UAW 4121: The struggle for immigration justice and the struggle to re-orient higher ed for the public good are one and the same. Both institutions have long been driven by the […]
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Higher ed labor is organizing. Learn more and join us. Upcoming Online Events: January 21 – HELU Open House February 4 – Library Workers Organizing Meeting & Strategy Session From the Blog: End-of-Year HELU Project Reports Each of these projects grew organically out of a felt need as we set out on our wall-to-wall
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Higher ed labor is organizing. Learn more and join us. Dear Friend, My name is Evan. I am the IT Committee Chair at AFSCME Local 328 in Oregon, and the Vice Chair of Higher Ed Labor United. Yesterday, 200+ higher ed union members across Minnesota joined a rapid response action call we organized alongside other
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Higher ed labor is organizing. Learn more and join us. November 2025 HELU Chair’s Message Billionaires and the ultra-wealthy have no place in setting the future agenda for higher ed. We – the students, community members, workers that actually make the campus work – do. Read more Upcoming Events: (today!) November 19 – HELU
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Higher ed labor is organizing. Learn more and join us. October 2025 HELU Chair’s Message Higher ed workers from wall-to-wall and coast-to-coast formed HELU in 2021 recognizing the need for more coalitional, cross-union work in our movement. In our current crisis, where the landscape is constantly shifting and attacks come from every angle, both the
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Officials from the Florida Office of Policy and Budget, under Gov. Ron DeSantis, have requested information about gender-affirming care at the University of Florida and at least 11 other Florida universities. The information requested includes details on anyone who has received gender-affirming care through campus health services since 2018 and the type of care received.
Although labor rights at public universities are determined by state law and aren’t affected by the Columbia decision, the massive strike at the UC system has had a spillover effect across workers in higher education, said Todd Wolfson, a Rutgers professor and vice-president of the union representing graduate student workers, postdoctoral associates, and faculty at the university. “They
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