The National Center's April newsletter includes the tentative schedule and registration information about our May 17-20 annual conference along with a list of panels and speakers. The conference theme is Higher Education, Collective Bargaining, and the Biden Administration.

One of the recently confirmed panels is COVID-19 and Racial Equity in Higher Education with Amalia Dache, Assistant Professor, Education, University of Pennsylvania, Jennifer Johnson, Assistant Professor, College of Education and Human Development, Temple University, Henrika McCoy, Associate Professor and Interim Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Student Services, Jane Addams College of Social Work, University of Illinois Chicago, and Roseanne Flores, Associate Professor, Psychology, Hunter College, CUNY, Moderator.

The April 2021 newsletter also includes an announcement that California Faculty Association's Charles Toombs has joined our Board of Advisors along with reports on the certification of AFSCME to represent an adjunct faculty unit following a rare decertification of an incumbent union, the graduate assistant tentative agreement reached at Columbia University, representation efforts at the University of Pittsburgh and Valencia College, recently filed unfair labor practice charges against Saint Leo University, and news concerning strikes at New York University and Oregon Institute of Technology.

Lastly, the newsletter includes a link to our November 2020 study about the growth in unionization at colleges and universities, links to video excerpts from our 2020 annual conference, and links to articles in the Journal of Collective Bargaining in the Academy.

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Register for the National Center's 48th Annual Conference, which will take place virtually during the week of May 17, 2021. While we will not be charging a conference registration fee this year, we welcome donations to help support our mission and activities.

We are pleased to announce the tentative schedule for our virtual annual conference, which commences on May 17 and ends on May 20. The schedule includes the dates, times, and speakers for each panel during the four day conference.

The following is a list of confirmed panels and panelists:

Plenary: The Biden Administration: Higher Education and Labor Initiatives with Lynn Pasquerella, President, Association of American Colleges and Universities, Mark Gaston Pearce, Executive Director, Workers Rights, Georgetown University Law School and former National Labor Relations Board Chairman, Damon A. Silvers, Director of Policy and Special Counsel, AFL-CIO, and Michael Loconto, Founding Principal, Fenway Law, LLC, Moderator.

Panel: Challenges of the Past Year and Perspectives about the Future with Daniel Greenstein, Chancellor, Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education, Susan Poser, Provost & Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs, University of Illinois Chicago, Mildred Garcia, President, American Association of State Colleges and Universities, and Scott Jaschik, Editor, Inside Higher Ed, Moderator.

Panel: Challenges of the Past Year and Perspectives on the Future of Academic Labor with Rebecca Givan, Rutgers AAUP-AFT, Jamie Martin, President, APSCUF, Justin Tzuanos, NEA Center for Organizing fellow, NEA Organizational Specialist and Higher Education Team member, Charles Toombs, President, California Faculty Association, and Gary Rhoades, Professor, Center for the Study of Higher Education, University of Arizona, JCBA Co-editor, Moderator.

Panel: Collective Bargaining in Higher Education: Best Practices for the Promotion of Collaboration, Equity and Measurable Outcomes with Daniel J. Julius, Visiting Fellow, Yale University, School of Management and Professor of Management, New Jersey City University, Joel Cutcher-Gershenfeld, Professor, Heller School for Social Policy and Management, Brandeis University, Adrienne E. Eaton, Dean, School of Management and Labor Relations, Distinguished Professor, Labor Studies & Employment Relations Department, Rutgers University, Thomas Kochan, MIT Sloan Institute for Work and Employment Research at the MIT Sloan School of Management, and David Lewin, Professor Emeritus, Management and Organizations, UCLA Anderson School of Management. This panel is co-sponsored by the LERA Higher Education Industry Council.

Panel: COVID-19 and Its Impact on Academic Women with Karen R. Stubaus, Vice President for Academic Affairs, Rutgers University, Maria Lund Dahlberg, Study Director, National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, Eve Higginbotham, Dean of Inclusion and Diversity, University of Pennsylvania, Leslie D. Gonzales, Associate Professor in the Higher, Adult, and Lifelong Learning Unit in the College of Education, Michigan State University and Juli Wade, Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at University of Connecticut.

Panel: COVID-19 and Racial Equity in Higher Education with Amalia Dache, Assistant Professor, Education, University of Pennsylvania, Jennifer Johnson, Assistant Professor, College of Education and Human Development, Temple University, Henrika McCoy, Associate Professor and Interim Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Student Services, Jane Addams College of Social Work, University of Illinois Chicago, and Roseanne Flores, Associate Professor, Psychology, Hunter College, CUNY, Moderator.

Panel: Speaking of Dignity: Non-Unionized Adjunct Faculty Teaching at a Catholic Church-Affiliated University with Jacob Bennett, University of New Hampshire, Maria Maisto, New Faculty Majority, James Coppess, Associate General Counsel, AFL-CIO, and David Marshall, Director, Center for Labor and Employment Law, Dorothy Day Professor of Law, St. John's University School of Law, Panelist and Moderator.

Panel: Principles and Practices for Effective Negotiations with Kathy Sheffield, Director of Representation and Bargaining, California Faculty Association, Barry Miller, Senior Policy Advisor on Labour Relations, Office of the Provost, York University, Deborah Williams, Johnson County Community College Faculty Association, Judi Burgess, Esq., Director of Labor Relations, Boston University, and Elena Cacavas, Esq., Cacavas ADR, LLC, Moderator.

Panel: Contingency, On-Line Education and Faculty Strikes in the US and the UK with Mariya Ivancheva, Lecturer in Higher Education Studies at the University of Liverpool, Robert Ovetz, Lecturer, Political Science, San Jose State University, David Harvie, Associate Professor of Finance and Political Economy, University of Leicester, and Alyssa Picard, Director, AFT Higher Education, Moderator.

Panel: Preparing and Presenting Grievances in Arbitration with Sarah Miller Espinosa, Labor Arbitrator, Mediator, and Ombuds, Letitia F. Silas, Executive Director of Systemwide Labor Relations, University of California, Tara Singer-Blumberg Labor Relations Specialist, New York State United Teachers and Homer C. La Rue, Labor Arbitrator, Mediator, and Professor of Law, Howard University School of Law, Panelist and Moderator.

Panel: Higher Education Legal Update with Henry Morris Jr., Partner, Arent Fox LLP, Monica Barrett, Bond, Schoeneck & King, PLLC, Angela Thompson, Associate Director, AFT Legal Department, and Aaron Nisenson, Senior Legal Counsel, AAUP, Panelist and Moderator.

Panel: Academic Freedom in Collective Bargaining Agreements and Faculty Handbooks with Hans-Joerg Tiede, Director of Research, AAUP, Risa Lieberwitz, General Counsel, AAUP and Professor of Labor and Employment Law, Cornell University School of Industrial and Labor Relations, Missy A. Matella, Watkinson Laird Rubenstein, P.C, and Jeffrey Cross, Former Associate VP, Academic Affairs, Eastern Illinois University (Emeritus), Editor, Journal of Collective Bargaining in the Academy, Moderator.

Panel: Shared Governance, Collective Bargaining, and the Future of Online Learning in Light of COVID-19 with Anthony G. Picciano, Professor, Hunter College and CUNY Graduate Center, School of Education, Irene Mulvey, President, AAUP, Joseph McConnell, Morgan, Brown & Joy, LLP, and Theodore Curry, Professor of Human Resources and Labor Relations, Michigan State University, Moderator.

Panel: The Future of Graduate Assistant Unionization with Richelle Fiore, Organization & Field Services, AFT, Peter MacKinnon, SEIU Local 509 President and Chair, Higher Education Council, Kavitha Iyengar, Graduate Assistant Union President, UAW 2865, University of California, and Joseph van der Naald, Graduate Student Researcher, Program in Sociology, Graduate Center, CUNY, Moderator (panel in formation).

University of Rhode Island Board of Trustees, RISLRB Case No. EE-3754

On April 19, 2021, Columbia University reached a tentative agreement with GWC-UAW 2110 for a first contract for the bargaining unit of the university's graduate and undergraduate assistants. The tentative agreement agreement followed a strike bargaining unit members. If ratified, the contract between GWC-UAW and Columbia University will be the ninth collective bargaining agreement for graduate assistants at a private sector university in the United States.

University of Pittsburgh, PLRB Case No. R-19-2-W

On April 16, 2021, Pennsylvania Labor Relations Board (PLRB) Hearing Examiner Stephen A. Helmerich issued a decision and proposed order determining the composition of a bargaining unit of faculty and other professionals at the University of Pittsburgh that the United Steelworkers (USW) seeks to represent at the University of Pittsburgh.

The petition had been initially dismissed in 2019 based a conclusion that USW had submitted an insufficient showing of interest. The ruling was later overturned when it was determined that the University of Pittsburgh had submitted an inaccurate employee eligibility list. Following a determination that USW's showing was sufficient, a hearing was held before Hearing Examiner Helmerich on the question of the appropriateness of the unit sought by USW.

In its petition, USW seeks to represent a unit of 3,000 full-time and regular part-time tenure-track and non-tenure-track faculty and librarians at all campuses of the University of Pittsburgh including those working in the Provost-area, Health Science Schools, and the law school. Excluded from the proposed unit are faculty in the medical school, research associates, post-doctoral associates, graduate student employees, non-faculty professionals, and all non-professionals, guards, supervisors, managerial and confidential employees.

In his decision, Hearing Examiner Helmerich found that the faculty sought in USW's petition shared a clear identifiable community of interest with the medical school faculty because they are all professionals performing similar teaching, research and service duties and experience similar working conditions. He ruled, however, that excluding the medical school faculty did not render USW's proposed unit inappropriate nor did it violate agency precedent against fragmentation. He reasoned that USW was seeking to represent appropriate 75% of all university faculty, the medical school has an independent budget from the rest of the university, functions based on responsibility-centered management (RCM), and the vast majority of the medical school faculty are dually employed or volunteers and therefore excluded from the unit.

Unless exceptions are filed, the university is required to submit to PLRB an employee eligibility for bargaining unit found to be appropriate.

District Board of Trustees of Valencia College, FPERC RC-2019-019

Following a hearing, the hearing officer issued a recommended decision that FPERC find that a bargaining unit limited to part-time teaching faculty and part-time instructors was appropriate even though it would exclude part-time librarians or part-time counselors.

In denying the exceptions, the FPERC cited its longstanding precedent and practice to permit petitioners to supplement a showing of interest emphasizing that a showing is merely aimed at determining whether there is sufficient support among the at-issue employees to warrant the agency to process the petition. FPERC also rejected the college's challenge to the appropriateness of the bargaining unit noting that since 2016 it has "recognized that adjunct faculty have a unique community of interest and that a bargaining unit composed of adjunct faculty is appropriate." Therefore, it rejected the college's argument that part-time librarians and counselors should be included in the unit with the adjunct faculty. Lastly, FPERC rejected the college's exceptions with respect to the time period for voter eligibility.

Included: All part-time teaching faculty and part-time instructors employed by Valencia College.

Excluded: All other employees of Valencia College, regardless of whether or not they have teaching responsibilities. Dual-function employees who are also employed in a different capacity at Valencia College are excluded.

Saint Leo University, NLRB Case Nos.12-CA-275612, 12-CA-275639, 12-CA-275640,

12-CA-275641, 12-CA-275643, and 12-CA-275644

On April 14, 2021, United Faculty of Saint Leo University, NEA/FEA/AFT/AFL-CIO filed unfair labor practice charges with the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) challenging Saint Leo University's refusal to continue to recognize the faculty union, which was first recognized by the university in 1976. It is likely that Saint Leo University will argue before the NLRB that the agency is prohibited from asserting jurisdiction over the subject of the charges because it is a religiously-affiliated institution. The issues related to that probable defense will be addressed during our annual conference as part of the panel discussion titled Speaking of Dignity: Non-Unionized Adjunct Faculty Teaching at a Catholic Church-Affiliated University.

On April 8, 2021, Oregon Tech-AAUP, which represents a bargaining unit of 172 tenure track and non-tenure track faculty at the Oregon Institute of Technology, filed a notice of an intent to commence a strike on April 26, 2021 over an impasse in negotiations for a first contract. Negotiations between the parties have been contentious since the unit was certified in June 2018 with the the Oregon Employment Relations Board (OERB) ruling that the university engaged in unfair labor practices during the negotiations.

In response to the April 8 strike notice, the university filed a petition on April 21, 2021 with OERB seeking to have the strike declared illegal based on Oregon Tech-AAUP alleged failure to negotiate in good faith and alleged improper direct dealings with the university's president and provost. The university also filed an unfair labor complaint against Oregon Tech-AAUP that made similar allegations. The university filings remain pending at OERB.

On April 26, consistent with the earlier threat, the faculty represented by Oregon Tech-AAUP commenced their strike.

An analysis of data and history concerning strikes in higher education can be found in an article by National Center Executive Director Bill Herbert and Jacob Apkarian, York College Assistant Professor of Sociology and National Center Affiliated Researcher: You've Been with the Professors: An Examination of Work Stoppage Data, Past and Present.

On April 26, 2021, graduate assistants at New York University (NYU) represented by UAW Local 2120 began a strike over negotiations for a successor agreement to the contract that expired in August 2020.

The Nevada legislature is considering a bill that would amend the state's public sector law to grant faculty and other professional employees of the Nevada System of Higher Education (NSHE) the right to unionize and engage in collective bargaining. Currently, those rights are provided under regulations of the Nevada Board of Regents.

The National Center's recent downloadable study, 2020 Supplementary Directory of New Bargaining Agents and Contracts in Institutions of Higher Education includes important findings and data for scholars and practitioners interested in collective bargaining in higher education.

The study was co-written by National Center Executive Director Bill Herbert, Jake Apkarian, Assistant Professor of Sociology, York College, CUNY, and Joey van der Naald, a PhD candidate in the program in sociology, CUNY Graduate Center.

It analyzes data regarding new bargaining units, bargaining agents, and contracts in higher education for the period 2013-2019 The study includes a listing of all new bargaining relationships concerning faculty, department chairs, librarians, postdoctoral scholars, academic researchers, and/or graduate student employees.

Unlike prior directories, the 2020 Supplementary Directory includes a detailed unit composition description for each new unit as well as hyperlinks to the most recent contract for each new unit. This information is aimed at enhancing future research and avoiding confusion over unit composition, particularly when faculty units include other titles.

Below are links to video-recorded sessions from the National Center's 47th annual conference that took place virtually on October 19-20, 2020.

Keynote Address by Steven Greenhouse, the former New York Times labor and workplace correspondent and author of the book Beaten Down, Worked Up: The Past, Present, and Future of American Labor (2019).

Plenary: The Student Debt Crisis: History, Consequences, and Post-Pandemic Solutions with Elizabeth Tandy Shermer, Associate Professor, Loyola University Chicago, Caitlin Zaloom, Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis, New York University, Jennifer Mishory, Senior Fellow and Senior Policy Advisor, Century Foundation, and Suzanne Kahn, Director, Education, Jobs, and Worker Power and the Great Democracy Initiative at the Roosevelt Institute.

Growth in Union Density Among Academic Labor, 2013-2019 with Jacob Apkarian, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Department of Behavioral Sciences, York College, CUNY and National Center Affiliated Researcher, Joseph van der Naald, Graduate Student Researcher, Program in Sociology, Graduate Center, CUNY and National Center Affiliated Researcher, and William A. Herbert, Distinguished Lecturer and National Center Executive Director, Moderator and Presenter. Discussants: Gary Rhoades, Professor and Director, Center for the Study of Higher Education, University of Arizona, JCBA Co-editor and Adrianna Kezar, Endowed Professor and Dean's Professor of Leadership, USC, Director of the Pullias Center.

Conference Greetings by Christina R. Cutlip, Senior Managing Director, Institutional Relationships, TIAA. 

Negotiating for Part-Time Faculty Equity with Will Silvio, President, Berklee College of Music Faculty Union, Jay Kennedy, Berklee College of Music Vice President for Academic Affairs/Vice Provost, Darryl Wood, NYSUT Labor Relations Specialist, Dia M.Carleton, Chief Human Resources Officer, SUNY Oneonta, and Beth Margolis, Gladstein, Reif & Meginniss, LLP, Moderator.

Labor as Contingent as Free Speech? An Analysis of Recent Adjunct Faculty First Amendment Cases with Nora Devlin, Doctoral Candidate, Rutgers Graduate School of Education, Stacy Hawkins, Professor of Law, Rutgers Law School, Commentator, Martin Malin, Professor of Law and Co-Director, Institute for Law and the Workplace, Chicago-Kent College of Law, Illinois Institute of Technology, Commentator, and Christopher Simeone, AAUP, Moderator.

Contingent Faculty, Job Security, and Academic Freedom with Carl Levine, Levy Ratner P.C., Keila Tennant, Associate General Counsel and VP for Labor Relations, The New School, Sonam Singh, former Unit Chair, BCF-UAW Local 2110, and Barry Miller, Senior Policy Advisor on Labour Relations, Office of the Provost, York University, Moderator.

Collective Bargaining from All Sides: Unionism, the Faculty Senate, Contingent Faculty, and Academic Administration with Naomi R. Williams, Assistant Professor, Labor Studies and Employment Relations, Rutgers University, Nelson Ouellet, Associate Professor, Université de Moncton, David Hamilton Golland, Professor, History, Governors State University, Jon E. Bekken, Professor, Communications, Albright College, and Theodore H. Curry, Professor of Human Resources and Labor Relations, Michigan State University, Moderator.

Higher Education Funding After the Pandemic with Fred Floss, Professor and Chair, Department of Economics and Finance, SUNY Buffalo State University and Fiscal Policy Institute, Senior Fellow, Thomas Anderson, Executive Director, Union of Part-Time Faculty, AFT Local 477, AFL-CIO, Thomas L. Harnisch, Vice President for Government Relations, and Sophia Laderman, Senior Policy Analyst, State Higher Education Executive Officers Association (SHEEO).

Race and Labor In Historical and Contemporary Contexts with Bill Fletcher, Jr. author and activist, former president of TransAfrica Forum, and Senior Scholar with the Institute for Policy Studies. Discussants: Derryn Moten, Alabama State University, co-president of the Alabama State University Faculty-Staff Alliance and a vice president of the Alabama AFL-CIO and Sherri-Ann Butterfield, Executive Vice Chancellor and Associate Professor, Sociology, Office of the Chancellor, Rutgers University—Newark. DeWayne Sheaffer, National Council for Higher Education, National Education Association, Moderator.

Black Lives Matter on Campus and Beyond with Calvin Smiley, Assistant Professor, Sociology, Hunter College, CUNY, Paul Ortiz, University of Florida Chapter President, United Faculty of Florida NEA-AFT, Terri Givens, CEO and Founder, Center for Higher Education Leadership, Elijah Armstrong, Organizational Specialist in Human and Civil Rights, National Education Association, and Alethea Taylor, Doctoral Lecturer/Internship Site Developer, Hunter College - School of Education, Department of Educational Foundations and Counseling, Participant and Moderator.

Title IX Regulations: Bargaining Issues for Unions and Institutions with Rana Jaleel, Assistant Professor, Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies, University of California, Davis, Lance Houston, University EEO, Inc., Debra Osofsky, Negotiator, Educator and Contract Specialist, and Judi Burgess, Director of Labor Relations, Boston University, Moderator.

Affirmative Action in Higher Education, Post-Pandemic with Cara McClellan, Assistant Counsel, NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Risa Lieberwitz, General Counsel, AAUP and Professor of Labor and Employment Law, Cornell University School of Industrial and Labor Relations, Victor Goode, Associate Professor, CUNY Law School, and Lili Palacios-Baldwin, Deputy General Counsel for Labor, Employment & Litigation, Tufts University, Moderator.

The Equal Rights Amendment and Higher Education with Julie Suk, Dean for Master’s Programs and Professor, Sociology, CUNY Graduate Center, Elizabeth Schneider, Rose L. Hoffer Professor of Law, Brooklyn Law School, Jessica Neuwirth, Distinguished Lecturer and Rita E. Hauser Director, Human Rights Program, Roosevelt House, Public Policy Institute at Hunter College, CUNY, and Wendi Lazar, Partner, Outten & Golden, Moderator.

The Old Wolf, Again: Latinx Faculty Negotiations, Recruitment, Retention, and Racism in the Academy with Theresa Montaño, California State University, Northridge, Chicana/o Studies, California Faculty Association, José Luis Morín, Chairperson, Department of Latin American and Latinx Studies, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, Michael Ortiz, Sul Ross University, and José Cintrón, Professor, College of Education, CSU Sacramento, California Faculty Association, Moderator.

Mass Incarceration and Higher Education with Patrick Mitchell, Board Member, Community College Association, CTA, NEA, Michelle Jones, Doctoral Student, New York University, Vivian Nixon, Columbia University Teaching Fellow, and Bidhan Chandra Roy, College of Arts and Letters, California State University, Los Angeles, Participant and Moderator.

Reasonable Accommodations for Faculty and Teaching Assistants with Jamie Daniel, Former National Field Service Representative, AAUP, Laura Yvonne Bulk, President, CUPE Local 2278 (Canadian Union of Public Employees), PhD Candidate, Rehabilitation Sciences, The University of British Columbia, Barbara Aloni, Disability & Productivity Consultant, The Standard Insurance Company, John Rose, Dean for Diversity, Hunter College, CUNY, and Alexandra (Sascha) Matish, Associate Vice Provost for Academic and Faculty Affairs and Senior Director, Academic Human Resources, University of Michigan, Moderator.

Retirement Plan Trends in the COVID-19 Pandemic with Patricia McConnell, Levy, Ratner, PC, Gary Herzlich, Senior Director, Associate General Counsel, TIAA, Susan E. Bernstein, Schulte, Roth & Zabel LLP, and Christina Cutlip, Senior Managing Director, Institutional Relationships, TIAA, Moderator.

LGBTQ Labor Issues in Higher Education After Bostock v. Clayton County with Barbara J. Diamond, Diamond Law, Portland, Oregon, Mellissa Sortman, Director of Academic Human Resources, Michigan State University, Elizabeth S. Hough, Counsel to the President, United University Professions, and Elizabethe C. Payne, Founder and Director, Queering Education Research Institute (QuERI) and faculty at CUNY, Moderator.

Health and Safety Issues and COVID-19 with Deborah Berkowitz, Worker Safety and Health Program Director, National Employment Law Project, Amy Bahruth, Assistant Director for Health and Safety, AFT, Jeffrey Hescock, Executive Director Environmental Health and Safety, UMass Amherst, and Thomas H. Riley, Jr. Executive Director of Labor and Employee Relations and Special Counsel for the University of Illinois System, Moderator.

Unemployment Insurance Policies and Practices: Adjunct Faculty, COVID-19, and Beyond with Michele Evermore, Senior Research and Policy Analyst, National Employment Law Project, George Wentworth, Of Counsel, National Employment Law Project, Arnab Datta, Senior Legislative Counsel, Employ America, and Francisco Diez, Worker Justice Policy Advocate, Center for Popular Democracy, Participant and Moderator.

LERA Higher Education Industry Council Panel: The Changing Place of Labor Studies in Higher Education with Marissa Brookes, University of California, Riverside, Tobias Schulze-Cleven, Rutgers University, Cedric de Leon, University of Massachusetts-Amherst, and Ruth Milkman, CUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies, Moderator.

Below are links to articles that appear in Volume 11 of the Journal of Collective Bargaining in the Academy, our peer review multi-disciplinary journal co-edited by Jeffrey Cross, Eastern Illinois University (Emeritus), and Gary Rhoades, University of Arizona.

Daniel J. Julius, Revitalizing Scholarship on Academic Collective Bargaining

James Castagnera, Organizing of Teaching Faculty in Private Higher Education Bucks a Long-Standing Historical Trend in American Unionization

William A. Herbert and Joseph van der Naald, A Different Set of Rules? NLRB Proposed Rule Making and Student Worker Unionization Rights

Rodrigo Dominguez-Villegas, Laurel Smith-Doerr, Henry Renski, and Laras Sekarasih,

Stephen J. Jacquemin, Christine R. Junker, and Mark Cubberley, Does a Prolonged Faculty Strike in Higher Education Affect Student Achievement in First Year General Education Courses?

Laura Murphy and Leah M. Akins, Maintaining peer-based faculty evaluation: a case study involving student surveys of teaching

Louis Shedd, Stephen G. Katsinas, and Nathaniel Bray, Examining the Employment Profile of Institutions Under the Mission-Driven Classification System and the Impact of Collective Bargaining

Barry Miller, Strong Fusion of Social Unionism and Normative Contract Negotiations: A Square Peg in a Round Hole?

Jennifer Eagan, The California Faculty Association: Keeping Racial and Economic Justice at the Forefront

Deirdre M. Frontczak, Adjuncts and the Chimera of Academic Freedom

We encourage scholars and practitioners in the fields of collective bargaining, labor relations, and labor history to submit articles for potential publication in future volumes of the Journal.

The Journal of Collective Bargaining in the Academy is supported, in part, by a generous contribution from TIAA and is hosted by the institutional repository of Eastern Illinois University.