Over the past few years, we have seen a flurry of college adjunct professors across the country join unions. Most appear to be joining the Service Employees Industrial Union (SEIU). According to the propaganda released by researchers at the SEIU, the adjuncts are joining their union in droves: In Boston, 20% of adjunct faculty at…

The adjunct unionization trend is literally sweeping the country right now with a new school’s adjuncts electing to unionize on what seems like a weekly basis. The early adopters of unions have recently signed their first collective bargaining agreements (CBAs). These CBAs share many similarities. For example, Northeastern University’s adjuncts will see an average pay…

Unions’ efforts to organize adjunct faculty have been in the spotlight lately and for good reason. The United Steel Workers (USW) and Point Park University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, spent nearly 10 months bargaining before reaching a tentative agreement. This agreement is the first of what the USW anticipates will be many agreements organizing professors throughout…

Adjunct professors and other contingent faculty at three California colleges recently voted in favor of joining the Service Employees International Union (SEIU). In its campaign to garner support, the SEIU cited the workers’ low wages, lack of benefits, and poor job security. Now the SEIU, through its “Adjunct Action” campaign has successfully organized adjunct professors…

Organized labor has been on a crusade to organize all facets of higher education. The NLRB has granted unions the right to organize adjunct professors, graduate assistants, and Division I scholarship athletes. These wins have been controversial but successful for unions. You can now add to that list Resident Advisors. The Regional Director of the…

All full-time and part-time non-tenure track faculty at the University of Southern California were included in a proposed bargaining unit seeking to be represented by the Service Employees International Union (SEIU). While adjunct faculty have been unionizing in droves lately, this nuanced division between tenured and non-tenured faculty is interesting. Here, USC argued unsuccessfully that…