AFT and AAUP Announce Joint Organizing Campaign

by E Wayne Ross on September 18, 2008

Inside Higher Ed: AFT and AAUP Announce Joint Organizing Campaign

Two of the three national unions that organize faculty members announced Wednesday that they plan a joint campaign to organize more faculty members and other employees at public research universities.

The announcement by the American Association of University Professors and the American Federation of Teachers follows months of negotiations on the deal. Jointly run local chapters are not new in and of themselves — the AAUP and AFT have seven joint locals (and other locals are jointly run with the National Education Association). But a national joint organizing campaign will be new.