Inside Higher Ed: Unions for Private College Part-Timers
Part-time faculty members at Syracuse University have voted to join the New York State United Teachers union and its national affiliate, the American Federation of Teachers, becoming what one union organizer described as the latest “domino in a growing trend.”
About 650 part-time faculty members will now have union representation at the institution. Before the vote, which occurred in December, Syracuse administrators released a statement, saying, “The university … would prefer to work directly with part-time and adjunct faculty to achieve mutually agreed upon goals, without an outside organization. The statement added, however, that the university “respects the right of employees to choose whether or not they are represented by a union.”
With the union now in place, organizers expect to help part-timers negotiate a new contract with the institution in the coming months.
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