Earlier this month, HELU Leadership convened in Detroit to connect, reflect, and strategize. We left feeing energized and ready for the work ahead. HELU is building a wall-to-wall, coast-to-coast higher ed labor movement. Join us!!!

When the University of Arizona was one of the nine original targets of the Trump Administration's Compact for Higher Ed, the United Campus Workers of Arizona (UCWAZ) was ready to respond. Read more on the HELU blog: higheredlaborunited.org/2025/12/05/u...

We're building a higher ed labor movement, wall-to-wall & coast-to-coast. Time to dress like it! HELU hats, t-shirts, and hoodies are available now: shop.worxprinting.coop/collections/helu

Sign AAUP North Carolina's petition to protect academic freedom! bit.ly/3YgUs7L

Read more about the action higher ed workers and students in NYC took November 7th to say NO to the compact and HANDS OFF HIGHER ED! #HELU#higheredlaborunited

United Campus Workers of Virginia CWA 2265's Higher Ed Week of Action is happening this week! Read more on the HELU blog.

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

Happening now: @uconnaaup.bsky.social members & fellow colleagues in #UConnLabor stand together to shift the balance of power in current #union contract negotiations. #TheCTDifference @aft.org @aftacademics.bsky.social‬ @afthighered.bsky.social @aaup.org @higheredlabor.bsky.social‬

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

Sign the "No Loyalty Oaths in Education!" petition started by Sunrise and sponsored by @higheredlabor.bsky.social actionnetwork.org/petitions/un...

And also, if you can’t stand on principle, stand on self preservation. Signing won’t stop this regime from attacking. Signing signals weakness, that you’re an easy target. There is absolutely nothing to be gained by signing this.

"If we are to live in a world in which universities emerge from the current moment as sites of thought, learning, and community... we cannot let higher education unions be defeated." http://www.publicbooks.org/our-right-to-our-union-graduate-student-workers-under-threat/

Prof. Karma Chavez: “I think UT’s good enough just to compete on the regular marketplace and still win.” That’s right! UT doesn’t need to trade its independence and autonomy for vague promises of “preferential” federal grant funding! 👏🧡✊ #LonghornPride

ICYMI our Cultural Center, which included the Pride Lounge, BIPOC lounge, & Pride Closet, is no more. Any remaining functions have been merged, along with Native American and Indigenous Initiatives and Black Community Initiatives, into a "Community Connections Team" www.instagram.com/p/DPmz6xxEQF...

MIT rejects the compact! 👏👏👏👏

I am proud to say that MIT has rejected Trump's poison compact. MIT President Sally Kornbluth: "Therefore, with respect, we cannot support the proposed approach to addressing the issues facing higher education." @aaup.org @aft.org @higheredlabor.bsky.social @uaw.org links.mit.edu/nl3/N5Jy2cKq...

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...

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...

WEBINAR ALERT!💻 The AAUP is hosting a webinar exploring the importance of independent accreditation systems for maintaining professional standards & examining threats a politicized accreditation system poses to academic freedom. ▶️October 6, 7PM

What happened to free speech? We've seen at least a dozen political firings in the last week of faculty, staff, and student workers. This isn't just about academic freedom. It's about job security and our right to free speech. It won't stop here. www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...

TRIO programs provide the kinds of support – advising, mentoring, safe spaces, academic support & more – that help first-gen students thrive in college. All students deserve these opportunities. Instead, the administration is taking away TRIO funding. www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...

"It is time to resist the injustice that now threatens to be normalized by those who capitulate, sometimes in advance, to powers that are clearly willing to destroy the basic principles that protect the university’s independence against external manipulations." www.chronicle.com/article/when...

CAHE on the (ab)use of antisemitism by the House Education and Workforce Committee to attack organized labor. Who will speak out? Please read and share! academeblog.org/2025/09/12/t...

The University of Minnesota should listen to Willie Nelson and settle with workers striking for a small wage increase and a fair contract.

We had solidarity in Vegas, Reno, and in Elko! Labor in all corners of the state came out in solidarity to say "no" to changing the rules for collective bargaining in the middle of faculty contract negotiations! And the Regents backed down and postponed any changes! @higheredlabor.bsky.social

"Whether a professor, staff member, student, or community member, we all have the right to our own beliefs, ideas, and values and the right to speak about them openly as private citizens." Sign here: actionnetwork.org/petitions/re...

Beloved History professor and Socialist Horizon member Tom Alter was summarily fired on September 10th by Texas State University President Kelly Damphousse for expressing his ideas at a virtual conference. We Demand Texas State University Give Tom Alter His Job Back chng.it/Lr8fkLfy via @Change

Read more in @truthout.org: HELU is "focused on building coalitions of different types of workers on campus and working across the unions that represent higher ed workers." If we're battling quietly now, we're going to have to get loud, right? Are you in? truthout.org/articles/har...

Trump is waging war on higher ed to advance his project to construct a fascist authoritarian regime. Campus workers are uniquely positioned to articulate an alternative vision and wage a united struggle to win it. New Dig w @higheredlabor.bsky.social’s Ian Gavigan www.thedigradio.com/podcast/clas...

Labor activists in coalition of local unions and labor-adjacent orgs. This was new, including the whole workforce of higher ed: faculty, clerical, health care, custodians, librarians, counselors, IT, buildings maintenance, landscapers, dining services, etc. @higheredlabor.bsky.social

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...

Loving this from @hankgreen.bsky.social on the ongoing attacks on higher education and why our workplaces have become political battlegrounds. Just wanted to mention another reason these attacks will fail: higher ed workers are FIERCE and getting more organized every day. ❤️ youtu.be/FQwhGOhZRyE?...

A massive attack on several humanities units (Arabic Studies, Judaic Studies, Holocaust Studies, Classics, Religion, German & Scandinavian, Russian/East European/Eurasian Studies) *and* tenure now unfolding at the University of Oregon (a blue state!). Closure of units and faculty layoffs threatened.

Join us on Monday for WHO'S AFRAID OF THE BIG BAD BILL? HIGHER ED FIGHTS BACK! Together, we'll learn about how the BIG BAD BILL harms higher ed workers & students and how we can unite and fight back! Register: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Let’s make sure UC faculty and staff know we have their backs! Sign and share, please! @higheredlabor.bsky.social @sfndhe.bsky.social @standhighered.bsky.social @debtcollective.bsky.social @annakornbluh.bsky.social @trevorgriffey.bsky.social @cnewf.bsky.social sites.google.com/view/ucstand...

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

Three years -- even more relevant today. Follow the money, fight for the money -- at the federal, state, and campus level. Don't wait to bicker over the crumbs of department allocations. Fight bigger. @aaup.org @higheredlabor.bsky.social www.aaup.org/academe/issu...

Start spreading the word! @higheredlabor.bsky.social has put together a webinar everyone in #highered #AcademicSky #MADC should join! us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

“Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Bill: Higher Ed Fights Back” Mon, Aug 18 7:30 pm et, 4:30 pt. Joined by Sara Garcia, a policy analyst for Senator Bernie Sanders on the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee (HELP). @higheredlabor.bsky.social @aaup.org us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Check out my newest at the @higheredlabor.bsky.social blog! More #MADC actions.... higheredlaborunited.org/2025/07/22/j...

"As a college professor, watching the dismantling of America’s education system has been among the most discouraging events of my life." We agree @aaup.org @higheredlabor.bsky.social

From the @higheredlabor.bsky.social newsletter: fighting instructor layoffs at the University of Arizona #contingent #adjunct #HigherEd higheredlaborunited.org/2025/07/22/c...

If @uofcalifornia.bsky.social doesn't budge on its concession bargaining with @uptecwa.bsky.social and @afscme3299.bsky.social, it faces the prospect of having more than 120,000 workers out of contract by January 1. @higheredlabor.bsky.social higheredlaborunited.org/2025/07/22/t...

💻 New blog post alert! Check out this piece one of our members submitted to the @higheredlabor.bsky.social blog, "Contingent Labor at the University of Arizona: One Damn Thing After Another" at ucwarizona.org/blog/conting....

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...

About 25 members of various unions representing University of California employees protested outside the UC Board of Regents’ July 15 meetings at UCLA’s Luskin Conference Center. The University Council held the rally and had members attend public comment

On August 20, 2025 at 7 PM EST, @higheredlabor.bsky.social is bringing together higher ed library workers across the country to strategize against threats to their livelihoods and profession. See this message for more info.

Happening now: #union activists gather for @aft.org & @aaup.org #2025SummerInstitute; skills to build power in #HigherEd, protect #AcademicFreedom, secure students' learning opp'ys. #DefendHigherEd @afthighered.bsky.social @aftacademics.bsky.social‬ @csuaaup.bsky.social @higheredlabor.bsky.social‬