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Despite Push Back From Adjunct Groups, CUNY Union Contract Ratified
CUNY’s 30,000-member staff union has ratified its contract after a lengthy contract negotiation with university officials, solidifying higher wages for both tenured faculty and adjunct professors. Members of the union, called the…
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,…
Post Janus v. AFSCME: PSC-CUNY Union Loses Thousands of Agency Fee Payers
by P.D. Lesko A recent report challenging the membership numbers of the Professional Staff Congress in the City University of New York (PSC-CUNY) union revealed that several thousand of the union’s members, primarily agency fee payers, have…
Did SEIU Break the Rules to Organize Non-Tenured Faculty at Elon U?
In a letter to faculty and staff, Elon Provost Steven House outlined the allegedly unethical actions SEIU organizers took since they first arrived on campus in January 2018 — all with the intention of influencing the election, the…
United Steel Workers File to Represent 3,500 Part-Timers on Five Pitt Campuses
Pitt faculty began collecting confidential union cards in January 2018. Their goals include addressing concerns about pay and job security for adjunct and part-time faculty. They also would like to see more academic freedom and greater…
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 …
Anonymous Allegations? A “Membership Integrity” Committee?
Within a few weeks, Kapila and two other union members, Michele Hoffman and Carey Friedman, received Integrity Committee notices informing them that they'd been charged with causing harm to the union and summoning them to hearings. The…
Illinois Contingent Faculty File Complaint After Hundreds Are Barred From Leadership Vote
Is the Illinois Education Association proving that the recent Supreme Court Janus decision was right? Crooked union elections may go uncorrected.
UM Lecturers Bargain New Contract That Hikes Salaries By Over 50 Percent
“Transformative Agreement” delivers pay raises on all campuses and improvements
in health care and job security.
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Supreme Court Overturns 40-year-old Precedent: Adjuncts No Longer Required to Pay Agency Fees to…
The Supreme Court ruled 5-4 Wednesday in Janus v. AFSCME that nonunion workers cannot be forced to pay fees to public sector unions.
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