The surge in campus organizing is an expression of – and response to – an ongoing austerity campaign against public higher education dating back half a century.
of academic workers strengthening campus unions “wall to wall and coast to coast.” “The fact that the University of California is now one of the places where over 45,000 workers went on strike really shows how we’ve come full circle,” Wolfson adds.
But, while this connection has been clearly articulated at the campus and state level, Wolfson worries the narrative isn’t coming across as clearly at the national level.
“What it ends up leading to is a lack of a coherent vision and organized voice of what needs to be done given the very long crisis in public higher education,” says Wolfson. HELU was founded in 2021 in an effort to fill those shoes. At a digital summit that July, members of 75 unions and labor organizations
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