SEIU Ends Effort to Organize NTT Faculty at Vanderbilt
by Rachel Friedman In November 2018, the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) withdrew its petition to unionize Non-Tenure Track (NTT) faculty members in the College of Arts and Science, marking the end of an ongoing movement to unionize NTT faculty at Vanderbilt. SEIU Local 25 is the Tennessee branch of the union, which represents HealthCare and Public Service Workers. Vanderbilt NTT faculty began to pursue membership of the Union in 2017, according to the SEIU Local 25 website. The recent withdrawal of the SEIU returns power to the hands of the university and ends any pending attempts to unionize NTT faculty members at Vanderbilt. […]