Agenda

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Friday, May 17, 2024

1pm ET – In-person only
Concurrent sessions:

• LEC 115: Workshop #1: The history of the faculty and grad union movement and the various challenges that the movement has tried to address over the last 50 years of neoliberalism. How has the movement met, or not met, those challenges? What comes next? What should and what can we learn from this past?
• LEC 137: Workshop #2: Focus on non-instructional staff in healthcare, maintenance, custodial, research, clerical and others essential to the college or university. The roots of staff organizing out of the Civil Rights movement and the spread of public sector bargaining, and the impact of neoliberalism on higher ed staff such privatization of services and outsourcing.

3pm ET/2pm CT/1pm MT/Noon PT – Hybrid – LEC 137
Gaza, Campus Protest, and the Higher Ed Labor Movement
Purpose: to provide a discussion and reflection about campus protests in solidarity with Gaza.

5:30pm ET/4:30pm CT/3:30pm MT/2:30pm PT – Hybrid – LEC 137
Keynote panel: Building a Higher Ed Labor Movement

7pm ET – In-person only – LEC 137
Social Event

Saturday, May 18, 2024

Most of Saturday, May 18 will be dedicated to internal HELU business. These sessions will be hybrid and available only to official member organization delegates and individual members. In-person breakfast will begin at 9am ET. Saturday’s member & delegate-only hybrid sessions will begin at 11am ET/10am CT/9am MT/8am PT. Throughout the day, delegates will discuss the following documents and take up-or-down votes:

• Governing documents, including the Constitution & Bylaws and Vision Statement.
  • Please note: Points from discussion and debates on the floor will be tabled to a Constitutional Review Committee that will meet to review/revise HELU’s governing documents after the Convention. Delegates from member unions will be encouraged to participate in this Committee work. 
• Committee Priorities: Committee reports and resolutions will set forth organizational priorities and policy in key areas. Delegates should review these committee reports and resolutions, both in preparation for a vote to affirm the resolutions and to consider where member union delegates would most like to plug into HELU committee work.

HELU leadership elections will take place Saturday at 2pm ET/1pm CT/Noon MT/11am PT. All HELU Officer and Steering Committee roles are up for election. Several positions are contested. View the full slate of candidates and their statements online here.

• Please note:
  • We do not have anyone running as Steering Committee representatives from Service and Maintenance Staff or Non-Collective Bargaining Jurisdiction Organizations. We will be looking to fill these positions soon.
  • Votes will all be done online via ElectionBuddy, so we ask that all delegates, including those attending in-person, bring a wifi-enabled device to participate.

9am ET – In-person only – LEC 137
Breakfast

11am ET/10am CT/9am MT/8am PT – Hybrid – Delegates & individual members only – LEC 137
Official call-to-order of the General Assembly Meeting

11:15am ET/10:15am CT/9:15am MT/8:15am PT – Hybrid – Delegates & individual members only – LEC 137
Review and discussion of Constitution & Bylaws

12:15pm ET/11:15am CT/10:15am MT/9:15am PT – Hybrid – Delegates & individual members only – LEC 137
Review and discussion of Vision Platform

1pm ET – In-person only – LEC 137
Lunch

2pm ET/1pm CT/Noon MT/11am PT – Hybrid – Delegates & individual members only – LEC 137
Officer and Steering Committee Elections

3pm ET/2pm CT/1pm MT/Noon PT – Hybrid – Delegates & individual members only – LEC 137
Committee Resolutions & Reports

• National Coordinated Organizing
• Politics & Policy
• Outreach
• Media & Communications

6pm ET/5pm CT/4pm MT/3pm PT – Hybrid – Delegates & individual members only – LEC 137
Campus Protest Statement Affirmation

7pm ET/6pm CT/5pm MT/4pm PT – Hybrid – LEC 137
Keynote panel: Organizing in Local & National Contexts

8pm ET – In-person only – Off-campus (Houlihan’s)
Social Event

Sunday, May 19, 2024

9am ET – In-person only
Breakfast

10am ET/9am CT/8am MT/7am PT – Hybrid – LEC 137
Contingency Task Force Meeting

11am ET/10am CT/9am MT/8am PT – Hybrid – LEC 137
Issues Forum

12:15pm ET/11:15am CT/10:15am MT/9:15am PT – Hybrid
Committee meetings

• National Coordinated Organizing – LEC 137
• Politics & Policy – LEC 115
• Media & Communications – LEC 166
• Outreach – LEC 133

1pm ET/Noon CT/11am MT/10am PT – Hybrid – LEC 137
Report back & Closing