Vanderbilt U. Non-Tenure Track Faculty Launches Petition to Unionize
by Sam Zern After a failed compromise with the university, the petition will move to the National Labor Relations Board for a final decision In November, a group of Vanderbilt non-tenured faculty members approached Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 205 looking for help in organizing a collective bargaining unit composed of full and part time non-tenured faculty members. The organizing group already had a campus presence due to a partnership with a group of graduate students also looking to unionize. According to Amy Cooter, a lecturer in the department of sociology and a member of the unionization effort organizational […]
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