Elon U Adjuncts Vote to Affiliate With SEIU: College Officials Appeal Vote to NLRB

by Elizabeth Pattman Elon University has gone up the ladder, filing a request for review with the national office of the National Labor Relations Board after the regional director certified a vote to unionize adjunct faculty on Tuesday, Sept. 3. Back in November, the Service Employees International Union approached faculty on campus in an effort to form a union for the university’s adjunct faculty. By December, the union had petitioned the NLRB, asking for a vote to establish a labor union representing non-tenure track faculty, which was approved by February. Prior to unionization discussions, the university’s adjunct faculty was represented […]