Higher Education Labor United (HELU)
@higheredlabor.bsky.social
A national coalition from all ranks of higher education workers across the country organizing to guarantee higher education for all.
Join us TONIGHT 10/29 @ 7:30pm ET for a ✨ spooky✨ look into the world of academic healthcare workers. A haunted house with: funding cuts, staff shortages, & more. "Skeleton Crews at Academic Medical Centers: The Dangerous Results of Bare-Bones Funding": us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
October 29, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Join us TONIGHT 10/29 @ 7:30pm ET for a ✨ spooky✨ look into the world of academic healthcare workers. A haunted house with: funding cuts, staff shortages, & more. "Skeleton Crews at Academic Medical Centers: The Dangerous Results of Bare-Bones Funding": us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
TOMORROW! Join HELU's Contingency Task Force on Zoom for a wall-to-wall, coast-to-coast screening of ADJUNCT & a post-screening discussion with filmmaker Ron Najor! Saturday, October 25 at 2:30 ET / 1:30 CT / 12:30 MT / 11:30 PT. Register at bit.ly/watch_adjunct
October 24, 2025 at 4:09 PM
TOMORROW! Join HELU's Contingency Task Force on Zoom for a wall-to-wall, coast-to-coast screening of ADJUNCT & a post-screening discussion with filmmaker Ron Najor! Saturday, October 25 at 2:30 ET / 1:30 CT / 12:30 MT / 11:30 PT. Register at bit.ly/watch_adjunct
Join HELU's Contingency Task Force on Zoom for a wall-to-wall, coast-to-coast screening of ADJUNCT & a post-screening discussion with filmmaker Ron Najor! Saturday, October 25 at 2:30 ET / 1:30 CT / 12:30 MT / 11:30 PT. Register at bit.ly/watch_adjunct
October 16, 2025 at 8:03 AM
Join HELU's Contingency Task Force on Zoom for a wall-to-wall, coast-to-coast screening of ADJUNCT & a post-screening discussion with filmmaker Ron Najor! Saturday, October 25 at 2:30 ET / 1:30 CT / 12:30 MT / 11:30 PT. Register at bit.ly/watch_adjunct
Trump is demanding nine colleges and universities sign a "Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education." These demands will come to all of higher ed if we don't stand together and fight back now. Tell our college and university administrations: Reject the Compact! tinyurl.com/rejectthecom...
October 9, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Trump is demanding nine colleges and universities sign a "Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education." These demands will come to all of higher ed if we don't stand together and fight back now. Tell our college and university administrations: Reject the Compact! tinyurl.com/rejectthecom...
HELU's International Campus Worker Protections (ICWP) Campaign is organizing to pressure our institutions to stand up for international workers. Read more about this campaign in a recent piece by organizer Bobby Huggins higheredlaborunited.org/2025/09/22/t...
October 8, 2025 at 8:03 AM
HELU's International Campus Worker Protections (ICWP) Campaign is organizing to pressure our institutions to stand up for international workers. Read more about this campaign in a recent piece by organizer Bobby Huggins higheredlaborunited.org/2025/09/22/t...
Read about the attack on academic freedom in Louisiana in a September 2025 article by Kimberly Terrell, Ph.D. higheredlaborunited.org/2025/09/22/l...
October 2, 2025 at 8:03 AM
Read about the attack on academic freedom in Louisiana in a September 2025 article by Kimberly Terrell, Ph.D. higheredlaborunited.org/2025/09/22/l...
Make a statement for higher ed workers this Labor Day with HELU signs! Easily printable from our website, perfect for any kind of Labor Day action. See you in the streets! higheredlaborunited.org/2025/08/28/h...
August 29, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Make a statement for higher ed workers this Labor Day with HELU signs! Easily printable from our website, perfect for any kind of Labor Day action. See you in the streets! higheredlaborunited.org/2025/08/28/h...
Join us Monday, August 18 for WHO’S AFRAID OF THE BIG BAD BILL? HIGHER ED FIGHTS BACK!
7:30 PM ET/ 6:30 CT / 5:30 MT / 4:30 PT.
Register at bit.ly/HELU_August18
7:30 PM ET/ 6:30 CT / 5:30 MT / 4:30 PT.
Register at bit.ly/HELU_August18
August 12, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Join us Monday, August 18 for WHO’S AFRAID OF THE BIG BAD BILL? HIGHER ED FIGHTS BACK!
7:30 PM ET/ 6:30 CT / 5:30 MT / 4:30 PT.
Register at bit.ly/HELU_August18
7:30 PM ET/ 6:30 CT / 5:30 MT / 4:30 PT.
Register at bit.ly/HELU_August18
Wednesday, July 30: Join us for a strategy discussion about how we can build solidarity across job categories on campus. 6pm ET/5pm CT/4pm MT/3pm PT on Zoom: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
July 28, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Wednesday, July 30: Join us for a strategy discussion about how we can build solidarity across job categories on campus. 6pm ET/5pm CT/4pm MT/3pm PT on Zoom: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
And coming up on May 8 at 4pm, the Hands Off Higher Education – Rally to Protect Our Campuses at the Oregon State Capitol! See you there :) @aft-oregon.org
April 29, 2025 at 2:58 PM
And coming up on May 8 at 4pm, the Hands Off Higher Education – Rally to Protect Our Campuses at the Oregon State Capitol! See you there :) @aft-oregon.org
Lots going on in Oregon right now and many ways to show solidarity (a 🧵). University of Oregon Student Workers are on strike! You can support them from anywhere by donating to their hardship or picket line support funds: higheredlaborunited.org/2025/04/29/s...
April 29, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Lots going on in Oregon right now and many ways to show solidarity (a 🧵). University of Oregon Student Workers are on strike! You can support them from anywhere by donating to their hardship or picket line support funds: higheredlaborunited.org/2025/04/29/s...
Workers at @urochester.bsky.social are on strike. Why? The University refuses to schedule a union election. The University of Rochester needs to stop stalling and treat its workers with respect. Higher ed workers stand united! And Bernie's with us, too.
@sanders.senate.gov #UofRStrike #UnionsForAll
@sanders.senate.gov #UofRStrike #UnionsForAll
April 25, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Workers at @urochester.bsky.social are on strike. Why? The University refuses to schedule a union election. The University of Rochester needs to stop stalling and treat its workers with respect. Higher ed workers stand united! And Bernie's with us, too.
@sanders.senate.gov #UofRStrike #UnionsForAll
@sanders.senate.gov #UofRStrike #UnionsForAll
Busy day today for the #DayofActioninHigherEd! 200+ campus events and all-day online teach-in! Join us in-person or online today: www.dayofactionforhighered.org
April 17, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Busy day today for the #DayofActioninHigherEd! 200+ campus events and all-day online teach-in! Join us in-person or online today: www.dayofactionforhighered.org
The level of organizing for April 17 is really knocking our 🧦 off. 175+ events & more getting added to our map almost hourly. Join @actioninhighered.bsky.social, @aaup.bsky.social, @debtcollective.bsky.social and more this Thursday, at campuses in 44 states & online: www.dayofactionforhighered.org
April 16, 2025 at 2:33 AM
The level of organizing for April 17 is really knocking our 🧦 off. 175+ events & more getting added to our map almost hourly. Join @actioninhighered.bsky.social, @aaup.bsky.social, @debtcollective.bsky.social and more this Thursday, at campuses in 44 states & online: www.dayofactionforhighered.org
"Understanding University Budgets" Wednesday, April 16 at 4:30pm ET/3:30pm CT/2:30pm MT/1:30pm PT.
Budgets are moral documents! What are our institutions' true values? Lets find out through this introduction to university budget research. Register at us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Budgets are moral documents! What are our institutions' true values? Lets find out through this introduction to university budget research. Register at us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
April 14, 2025 at 6:46 PM
"Understanding University Budgets" Wednesday, April 16 at 4:30pm ET/3:30pm CT/2:30pm MT/1:30pm PT.
Budgets are moral documents! What are our institutions' true values? Lets find out through this introduction to university budget research. Register at us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Budgets are moral documents! What are our institutions' true values? Lets find out through this introduction to university budget research. Register at us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Monday, April 14 at NYU & Zoom, "The Palestine Exception" screening & discussion with directors Jan Haaken & @jenniferruth.bsky.social, w/ @katherinefranke.bsky.social, Sherena Razek, & Yezen Saadeh! Sponsored by @actioninhighered.bsky.social. Register by Zoom: nyu.zoom.us/j/92012470986
April 14, 2025 at 2:30 AM
Monday, April 14 at NYU & Zoom, "The Palestine Exception" screening & discussion with directors Jan Haaken & @jenniferruth.bsky.social, w/ @katherinefranke.bsky.social, Sherena Razek, & Yezen Saadeh! Sponsored by @actioninhighered.bsky.social. Register by Zoom: nyu.zoom.us/j/92012470986
And in Downtown Los Angeles, tons of people out in the streets with amazing signs and incredible solidarity for a #KillTheCuts rally! Good weather isn't necessary for a protest, but it sure doesn't hurt... @uaw4811.bsky.social @uaw872.org
April 8, 2025 at 11:01 PM
And in Downtown Los Angeles, tons of people out in the streets with amazing signs and incredible solidarity for a #KillTheCuts rally! Good weather isn't necessary for a protest, but it sure doesn't hurt... @uaw4811.bsky.social @uaw872.org
From the #KillTheCuts rally at @ucmerced.bsky.social's campus: "Science saves, cuts kill!" & "Got Polio? No?? Thank science!"
April 8, 2025 at 10:48 PM
From the #KillTheCuts rally at @ucmerced.bsky.social's campus: "Science saves, cuts kill!" & "Got Polio? No?? Thank science!"
Many density-building actions and rallies were held across the South – here are some images from Atlanta, GA; Knoxville, TN; and Starkville, MS! The higher ed labor movement is growing everywhere at a speed we've never seen before ❤️
April 8, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Many density-building actions and rallies were held across the South – here are some images from Atlanta, GA; Knoxville, TN; and Starkville, MS! The higher ed labor movement is growing everywhere at a speed we've never seen before ❤️
Some beautiful and eloquent signs at the #KillTheCuts rally at @ucdavis.bsky.social. Gets right to the point: "Do Not Obey in Advance" and "STOP deporting graduate students – the law gives us all free speech and due process!"
April 8, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Some beautiful and eloquent signs at the #KillTheCuts rally at @ucdavis.bsky.social. Gets right to the point: "Do Not Obey in Advance" and "STOP deporting graduate students – the law gives us all free speech and due process!"
And in downtown Los Angeles, #KillTheCuts rally participants shut down the intersection in front of the Federal Building.
April 8, 2025 at 9:33 PM
And in downtown Los Angeles, #KillTheCuts rally participants shut down the intersection in front of the Federal Building.
The #KillTheCuts action in Newark was packed! Thanks to all the workers who came out from @ruaaup-ptl.bsky.social @ruaaup-aft.bsky.social and around New Jersey!
April 8, 2025 at 9:29 PM
The #KillTheCuts action in Newark was packed! Thanks to all the workers who came out from @ruaaup-ptl.bsky.social @ruaaup-aft.bsky.social and around New Jersey!
Hundreds are gathering in Washington, DC to make sure we're heard by lawmakers, every day until we #KillTheCuts! Can you hear us?
April 8, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Hundreds are gathering in Washington, DC to make sure we're heard by lawmakers, every day until we #KillTheCuts! Can you hear us?
And in Seattle, @uaw4121.bsky.social and allies led a #KillTheCuts rally and die-in at the University of Washington:
April 8, 2025 at 9:18 PM
And in Seattle, @uaw4121.bsky.social and allies led a #KillTheCuts rally and die-in at the University of Washington:
And a video from the action at @ucriverside.bsky.social!
April 8, 2025 at 9:12 PM
And a video from the action at @ucriverside.bsky.social!