The National Labor Relations Board recently held that it will assert jurisdiction over faculty members of a college or university that claims to be a religious employer unless the institution shows both: 1) that it holds itself out as providing a religious educational environment; and 2) that it holds out faculty who seek to unionize…

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…

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…

Organizing unions on college campuses is en vogue. As followers of Roetzel Recap know, the adjunct professor unionization movement is sweeping the country. Graduate students and some athletes, though to a lesser degree, have joined the movement. Now, resident advisors (RAs) and student peer mentors can be added to the mix of groups of people…

Most of the organizing activity involving university professors has involved the Service Employees International Union (SEIU). That makes sense, since professors are in somewhat of a service profession. But not so for the adjunct faculty members working for Robert Morris University. They recently filed a petition for election with the National Labor Relations Board seeking…

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…