Higher Education Labor United (HELU)

A rally on February 19, 2025 in New Haven.

A rally on February 19, 2025 in Washington, DC.

A rally on February 19, 2025 in Seattle.

Last year we took action on Feb 19 to say Hands Off! Our education and research with @UAW.org, @AFT.org, @AAUP.org & more. Today we continue that work, fighting with #MayDayStrong for the world we need.

Want to organize against ICE on your campus? Join us Sunday, February 15, at 7pm ET on Zoom for a “Schools: Drop ICE Mass Call” with @sunrisemvmt, @aaupnational, @ydsa_official, @aftunion, and @ueunion. Register here: www.mobilize.us/highereducat...

And as always, standing in solidarity with our other union comrades who are deep in negotiations or about to start! @lccea.bsky.social, @uffuf.bsky.social, @uaw4811.bsky.social & more!

We stand with our union siblings @uupinfo.bsky.social, who started negotiations with New York State today. Looking forward to all your wins and supporting you whenever needed! #uupcontract

Image of postcard and sticker. Support Minnesota workers and HELU will send you a postcard & sticker.

Let’s support workers in MN! Contribute to Unite HERE Local 17’s Solidarity Fund to support mutual aid for MN workers. Send us a copy of your receipt from contributing $20+ and we'll mail you a special HELU postcard & sticker! higheredlaborunited.org/2026/01/27/a...
#ICEOUT #ICEOUTMN #ICEOutofMN

Photo of the Target Center in Minneapolis as it fills up for the post-march rally.

Post-march Day of Truth and Freedom Rally in Minneapolis! Amazing turnout, amazing vibes. Commemorate today's solidarity by contributing to Unite HERE Local 17's Solidarity Fund! Tell us & we'll send you a postcard AND a sticker: higheredlaborunited.org/postcards-fo... #ICEOUT #ICEOUTMN #ICEOutofMN

Getting ready to march with all our friends in Minneapolis! #ICEOUT #ICEOUTMN #ICEOutofMN

It's -20 in Minneapolis and organizers are in the streets before dawn getting ready for actions related to the general strike. They've had locals training out-of-town volunteers on how to prepare for and endure the cold. AND IT IS WORKING. THE STRIKE IS HAPPENING. THE CITY IS DOING THE DAMN THING...

Postcards for Minnesota – ICE OUT! – Higher Education Labor United

Share your receipt from a $20+ contribution to the Unite HERE Local 17 Solidarity Fund and address with us via this form to get a limited-edition HELU postcard and sticker: higheredlaborunited.org/postcards-fo... #ICEOUT #ICEOUTMN #ICEOutofMN

"Support Minnesota and we'll send you a postcard and sticker" With image of sticker with HELU logo and motto "wall-to-wall and coast-to-coast"

Let’s support workers in MN! Contribute $20+ to Unite HERE Local 17 Solidarity Fund to support mutual aid for MN union members. Send us a copy of your receipt and we'll mail you a special HELU postcard & sticker! workingpartnerships.betterworld.org/campaigns/un... #ICEOUT #ICEOUTMN #ICEOutofMN

A response to recent events from incoming HELU Vice Chair and President of Minnesota's Inter Faculty Organization. Now is the moment to take action. See you in the streets.

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

University Administrations: Reject Trump's "Loyalty Oath" Compacts The Trump administration is trying to blackmail schools to let him and his unqualified bureaucrats run our schools. They want to dictate what schools teach, who they admit and hire, what researchers s...

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.

Our Right to Our Union: Graduate Student Workers Under Threat - Public Books University leaders may make a show of opposing Trump when funding is under threat, but they will happily align themselves with him in confronting graduate student workers.

"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"
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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
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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...