Inside Higher Ed: Key Legal Win in Adjunct Union Battle
Adjunct professors at Pace University — who have been engaged in a long fight to unionize and negotiate a contract — won a key battle on Friday when a federal appeals court rejected the New York university’s attempt to limit the size of the bargaining unit.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia upheld the actions of the National Labor Relations Board, which had ruled that the adjunct union should have as its members all instructors who met certain minimal teaching requirements (teaching three credit hours). The university had asked the court to restrict membership to those who met those requirements in at least one semester in any two of the previous three academic years — a request that would have eliminated adjuncts from union membership in their first two years working at Pace.
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