Newly Unionized College Adjunct Professors Cashing In with New Collective Bargaining Agreements
By Management Labor Lawyer | | NLRB, Uncategorized
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…
Read More SEIU Continues to Win Adjunct Professor Elections Across the U.S.
By Management Labor Lawyer | | NLRB
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…
Read More NLRB Changes Rules to Ease Ability of Faculty at Religious Universities to Organize
By Management Labor Lawyer | | NLRB
The National Labor Relations Board recently overturned nearly 40 years of legal precedent prohibiting faculty members at religious universities from forming or joining a union because doing so could violate the religion clauses of the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. In another example of dramatically expanding the scope of Section 7 of the National…
Read More New Test to Determine Managerial Status of University Professors
By Management Labor Lawyer | | NLRB
The Service Employees Union International (SEIU) has led the way over the past few years in organizing adjunct university professors. Though many other unions have followed in its footsteps, the SEIU has aggressively organized adjunct, part-time, non-tenured, and contingent university faculty members. In response, universities have argued that professors are managerial employees are excluded from…
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