SEIU Targets Adjuncts at DePaul U. in Chicago

by Brendan Moore DePaul could soon be at the forefront of the debate over adjunct unionization as DePaul President Rev. Dennis Holtschneider, C.M. informed faculty last week of attempts by the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) to add DePaul faculty to their ranks. In an email with the subject line “Union Solicitation at DePaul,” Holtschneider wrote Jan. 14 that a community organizer affiliated with the SEIU was approaching adjunct faculty members to solicit support for a union. While Holtschneider said that DePaul adheres to Catholic social teaching on worker’s rights and respects the right for faculty to decide who represents […]