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Candidate town Halls

Higher education workers are organizing for a stronger future for higher education.

This fall, Labor for Higher Ed will bring together unions, higher education workers, and candidates for federal office for a series of cross-union Town Halls in strategic locations across the country.

Held throughout September and October, these nonpartisan public events will give higher education workers the opportunity to ask candidates directly about:

  • How they would respond to current federal higher education policies

  • How they would fight for stronger public investment in higher education

  • How they would protect workers and strengthen labor rights

  • What a positive legislative agenda for higher education should look like


Organizing People.

Organizing Champions.

Organizing a Mass Movement.

candidate town halls will:

Organize People

Build union member engagement, political education, and organizing around the issues that matter to higher education workers.

Organize a Mass Movement

Bring higher ed’s priorities into the public debate and build a broader movement for a strong, publicly supported higher education system.

Organize Champions

Connect workers with candidates and elected officials who can become champions for higher education and labor.

be Cross-Union, Nonpartisan, Worker-Led

L4HE brings unions together around a shared educational and organizing effort. The Town Halls are not a joint endorsement process and do not involve coordinated campaign activity.


get involved

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Higher education workers and union locals can bring a Town Hall to their community, build cross-union coalitions, organize members, and make higher education labor’s priorities part of the national conversation. Contact us to learn more.