NATIONAL CENTER
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December 2021
Happy Holidays from the National Center
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This December 2021 edition of the National Center's newsletter covers news and updates about collective bargaining and unionization in higher education.
This month's newsletter contains registration and hotel information for the National Center's 49th annual conference on April 11-13, 2022, which is currently planned to be a hybrid conference, along with COVID-19 protocols and information for in-person participation, and a list of confirmed panels and panelists.
The newsletter also contains a reminder to administrators and labor representatives to respond to the National Center's electronic Academic Collective Bargaining Survey. The data will be used to update our database and will form the basis for the next National Center directory of bargaining agents and contracts in higher education.
This month's newsletter includes a link to the video of the December 15, 2021 program, co-sponsored by the National Center and the Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute, celebrating the publication of historian Ellen Schrecker's new book The Lost Promise: American Universities in the 1960s.
The newsletter reports on a new Maryland law extending collective bargaining to community colleges, the adoption of a new collective bargaining policy by the Michigan State University Board of Trustees, the recognition of a new graduate student researcher bargaining unit at the University of California, representation election results at Antioch University, Northwestern University, and Cornish College of the Arts, the scheduling of a representation election at Bates College, the results of a card check at the University of New Mexico, and recently filed representation petitions at the University of Washington, Bryant University, and the Rhode Island School of Design. In addition, this month's newsletter announces the newest member of the National Center's Board of Advisors, includes video highlights from our 2021 annual conference along with links to articles from the current volume of the Journal of Collective Bargaining in the Academy.
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Register Now:
National Center's 49th Annual Conference: April 11-13, 2022
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The National Center's 49th annual labor-management conference will be taking place on April 11-13, 2022 in New York City. Our current plan is to hold a hybrid conference, which will permit in-person and virtual options for panelists and attendees. We will be revisiting the conference format after the new year in light of the recent substantial upsurge in infections from COVID-19.
The theme of the conference will be The State of Collective Bargaining and Higher Education. The conference will include panels on contemporary issues in collective bargaining and higher education, along with continental breakfast and lunch on Monday-Wednesday, and a dinner reception on Monday evening. There will be a virtual option for both attendees and panelists. Links for online access to the conference will be sent out closer to the event date.
Click here for registration and hotel information and click here for COVID-19 protocols and information for in-person participation. Updates about the conference will be posted on our website and included in future newsletters.
Below is a list confirmed conference panels and panelists:
Panel: The Future of Higher Education with Arthur Levine, The Great Upheaval: Higher Education's Past, Present, and Uncertain Future, Ann Kirschner, University Professor, City University of New York, Adrianna Kezar, Endowed Professor and Dean's Professor of Leadership, USC, Director, Pullias Center, and Director, Delphi Project, Discussant, and Daniel Greenstein, Chancellor, Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education, Moderator.
Panel: Contract Negotiations under COVID and Beyond with Margaret E. Winters, former Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs, Wayne State University, Ricardo Villarosa, Wayne State University AAUP-AFT, Dominick Fanelli, Associate Director Labor Relations, University of Michigan, Kirsten Herold, President, Lecturers' Employee Organization, AFT Local 6244, and Homer C. La Rue, Labor Arbitrator, Mediator, and Professor of Law, Howard University School of Law, Moderator.
Panel: COVID and Higher Education: The Role of Unions and Arbitration Regarding Vaccine Mandates with Alison Braley-Rattai, Assistant Professor, Department of Labour Studies, Brock University, Ontario, Canada, Michelle Webber, Professor, Department of Sociology, Brock University, Ontario, Canada, Richard Bales, Professor of Law, Pettit College of Law, Ohio Northern University, and Sara Slinn, Associate Dean (Research and Institutional Relations) & Associate Professor, Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, Moderator.
Panel: Pandemic Organizing and Bargaining Lessons in Higher Education with Larry Savage, Chair, Department of Labour Studies, Brock University and Lauren Byers, United Faculty of Florida, Unit Service Director, Organizing Specialist (panel in formation).
Panel: Lessons Learned: Organizing and Collective Bargaining by Graduate Assistants During the Pandemic with Jacob A. Bennett, MFA, PhD, University of New Hampshire, Ben Serber, Higher Ed Organizer, North Dakota United and Past President, FSU Graduate Assistants United, Amy L. Levant, Assistant Director of Labor and Employee Relations, University of Illinois, Chicago, and Joseph van der Naald, Graduate Student Researcher, Program in Sociology, Graduate Center, CUNY, Moderator.
Panel: Limiting the Use of Student Evaluations in Contracts: Challenges in Vision and Enforcement with Steven Newman, Temple Association of University Professionals President, Temple University, Ian Sakinofsky, Professor of HR Management, Ryerson University, Laura Murphy, Dutchess United Educators, Alexandra Matish, Associate Vice Provost for Academic and Faculty Affairs, University of Michigan, and Timothy S. Taylor, Arbitrator, Scheinman Arbitration and Mediation Services, Moderator.
Panel: Federal Funding, Inequality, and Higher Education: Politics and Policy-Making with Adam Harris, staff writer at the Atlantic, National Fellow at New America, and author, The State Must Provide: Why America’s Colleges Have Always Been Unequal — and How to Set Them Right, Rebecca S. Natow, Assistant Professor of Educational Leadership & Policy, Hofstra University and author of the forthcoming Reexamining the Federal Role in Higher Education: Politics and Policymaking in the Postsecondary Sector, and Sosanya Jones, Associate Professor of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies, Howard University, Moderator.
Panel: Becoming JEDI: Labor-Management Strategy to Challenge Racism on Campus and Stem Community College Enrollment Decline with Courtney Brewer, Professor of Psychology, Executive Vice President, Faculty Association Suffolk Community College, Christina Vargas, Chief Diversity Officer and Title IX Coordinator, Suffolk County Community College, board member, ERASE Racism NY, Patty Munsch, Interim Vice President for Student Affairs, Suffolk County Community College, Jennifer Browne, Associate Dean for Curriculum Development, Suffolk County Community College, Lauren Liburd, Specialist, SCCC Foundation, Co-Chair Achieving the Dream Committee, and Cynthia Eaton, Professor of English, Secretary, Faculty Association Suffolk Community College, Moderator.
Panel: Collective Bargaining and Shared Governance: Findings from the 2021 AAUP Shared Governance Survey with Lynn Pasquerella, President, Association of American Colleges and Universities, Timothy Reese Cain, Associate Professor of Higher Education, University of Georgia, Hans-Joerg Tiede, Director of Research, American Association of University Professors, and Michael Loconto, Arbitrator and Mediator, Loconto ADR, Boston, MA, Moderator.
Panel: Achieving Pay Parity for Part-Time Faculty in Community Colleges with
Sandra Weese, Organizing Director, California Federation of Teachers, Ron McKinley, Vice Chancellor of Human Resources and Employee Relations, Peralta Community College District, Dyana Delfin-Polk, Peralta Community College District Board of Trustees, and Jennifer Shanoski, President, Peralta Federation of Teachers, AFT Local 1603, Moderator.
Panel: An Update from NLRB and Public Sector Labor Relations Agencies on Higher Education Issues with Mark Gaston Pearce, Executive Director, Workers’ Rights Institute, Georgetown University Law School, and former National Labor Relations Board Chairman, J. Felix De La Torre, General Counsel, California Public Employment Relations Board, Ellen Maureen Strizak, General Counsel, Illinois Educational Labor Relations Board, and Jennifer Abruzzo, General Counsel, National Labor Relations Board (invited).
Panel: Faculty Unionization and Collective Bargaining in the Philippines: Similarities and Differences with Benjamin Velasco, Assistant Professor, University of the Philippines, School of Labor and Industrial Relations, Rene Luis Tadle, Associate Professor, Philosophy, University of Santo Tomas and Lead Convenor, Council of Teachers and Staff of Colleges and Universities of the Philippines, Gerardo L. Blanco Associate Professor, Higher Education, Academic Director, Center for International Higher Education, Boston College, Shannon Lederer, Director of Immigration Policy, AFL-CIO, and Ashwini Sukthankar, Secretary/Treasurer, International Commission for Labor Rights.
Panel: Higher Education Legal Update with Henry Morris, Jr., Partner, Arent Fox LLP, Monica Barrett, Bond, Schoeneck & King PLLC, Angela Thompson, CWA Special Counsel for Strategic Initiatives, and Aaron Nisenson, Senior Legal Counsel, AAUP, Panelist and Moderator.
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2021 Collective Bargaining Survey: Responses Needed |
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We strongly encourage administrators and labor representatives to respond to the National Center's survey.
The survey is aimed at collecting current information about all collective bargaining units and contracts in higher education involving faculty, administrators, postdoctoral scholars, and student workers. The data will be used for a new open-source directory of collective bargaining relationships and contracts.
We reemphasize the importance of timely responses from individuals with direct knowledge of bargaining unit compositions, sizes, and agreements are essential for ensuring that our database is current and comprehensive. The survey will take about 15 minutes to complete. Any identifying individual information will be kept confidential and will be used only to follow up if clarification of responses is necessary.
Please complete and submit a survey response to ensure that data relating to your institution or bargaining unit are included.
Or copy and paste the URL below into your internet browser:
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The Lost Promise: American Universities in the 1960s:
A Panel Discussion at the Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute
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On December 15, 2021, the National Center and the Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute at Hunter College hosted an event celebrating the release of historian Ellen Schrecker's latest book on higher education, The Lost Promise: American Universities in the 1960s, published by the University of Chicago Press.
The recorded event included a panel discussion with Ellen Schrecker, retired Professor of History at Yeshiva University, Robert Cohen, Professor of History and Social Studies, Steinhardt School of Education, NYU, and Paul Lauter, Allen K. & Gwendolyn Miles Smith Professor of Literature, Emeritus, Trinity College, Hartford. The panel was introduced and moderated by Bill Herbert, the National Center's Executive Director.
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Maryland Expands Collective Bargaining in Higher Education |
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The Maryland Legislature has overridden a veto of legislation that expands collective bargaining rights to community college faculty and employees in that state. The new law mandates a distinct bargaining unit for full-time faculty, and separate bargaining units for part-time faculty and eligible non-exempt employees under the Fair Labor Standards Act. Department heads are covered under the legislation but student assistants are not. The legislation prohibits strikes with impasses over non-economic issues being finally resolved by a fact-finding board.
The new law staggers the implementation dates by institution:
September 1, 2022: Anne Arundel Community College; Community College of Baltimore County; Frederick Community College; Harford Community College; Howard Community College; Montgomery College; Prince George’s Community College, and College of Southern Maryland.
September 1, 2023: Allegany College of Maryland; Carroll Community College; Cecil College; Chesapeake College; Garrett College; Hagerstown Community College; and Wor-Wic Community College.
October 1, 2024: Baltimore City Community College.
The stated rationale for the staggered implementation dates is to provide community colleges with "sufficient time to plan for potential negotiations" but the law prohibits the colleges from using the delayed implementation to discourage union activities or otherwise coerce employees.
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Michigan State University Adopts a Neutrality-Card Check Policy |
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Under the policy, the university will remain neutral in response to labor organizing efforts by its employees and will refrain from stating any opinions about the unionization efforts. However, the policy would permit the university to correct inaccuracies and misrepresentations with "purely factual information to employees" if the union "fails to make the correction itself within two days following notification" from the university.
In the new policy, MSU has agreed to accept any proposed bargaining unit presented by a union as long as the university views the proposed unit as reasonable. Disputes over unit composition can be resolved by a mutually-approved arbitrator who will issue a binding expedited determination as to "whether or not the proposed unit is reasonable under the [Michigan] Public Employment Relations Act." In essence, the policy permits side-stepping the procedures of the Michigan Public Employment Relations Commission for resolving unit composition disputes.
Lastly, the policy calls for recognition following a card check, a procedure unavailable under the Michigan Public Employment Relations Act but available in many other states including New York, Illinois, California, Oregon, and New Mexico.
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University of California: Graduate Student Researcher Unit Recognized |
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In early December, the UAW and the University of California (UC) entered into an agreement resolving the request for recognition petition filed by the UAW for a new unit of graduate student researchers. Although the specific size of the new unit remains in dispute, the unit will likely to exceed 12,000, making it the largest new unit bargaining unit in higher education in over decade.
The UC-UAW agreement states:
The parties agree that the new Graduate Student Researcher Unit (“Unit”) at all University of California campuses, research programs and units, and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory will be defined as described in this agreement below.
I. Inclusion in the Unit - As a compromise in this matter, and without admitting that these graduate students should have previously been categorized as employees, the parties agree that the following group of graduate students meet the definition of employee or higher education employee under HEERA §3562 (e) and will be included in the unit:
A. Graduate Student Researcher – Category of Employees
1. Definition: Graduate student who performs research as a condition of receiving
financial remuneration from funding generated by the University in an academic
department or research unit, provided that the graduate student is performing
this funded research under the control of the University and under the specific
direction of a faculty member or authorized Principal Investigator.
2. These title and title codes will be applicable to this category of graduate student
employees: i. GSR-FULL FEE REM, 3282; ii. GSR-FULL TUIT & PARTIAL FEE REM, 3283; iii. GSR-NO REM, 3266; iv. GSR-PARTIAL FEE REM, 3276; v. GSR-TUIT & FEE REM, 3284; vi. GSR-TUIT & FEE REM-UCSD-GRP B, 3285; vii. GSR-TUIT & FEE REM-UCSD-GRP C, 3286; viii. GSR-TUIT & FEE REM-UCSD-GRP D, 3287; ix. GSR-TUIT & FEE REM-UCSD-GRP E, 3262; x. GSR-TUIT & FEE REM-UCSD-GRP F, 3263; and
xi. GSR-TUIT & FEE REM-UCSD-GRP G, 3264.
3. Moving forward, the University agrees to refrain from the use of the Graduate
Student Assistant Researcher title as described in APM-112-4-b-24, will no longer
use the title codes GSAR-GSHIP, 3274 or GSAR-NON GSHIP, 3273, and will withdraw
the GSAR salary scale (which is lower than the GSR salary scale). The 9 GSARs
systemwide who are at UC Irvine will be moved to one of the GSR titles listed in this
section within 90 days of this agreement.
B. New “Trainee” Category of Employees
1. Definition: Where the graduate student meets the terms identified in Section I.A.1
and the funding source from which they receive remuneration deems that the
money provided cannot be characterized as wages, the graduate student is an
employee and the University will place the graduate student employee in a new
“Trainee” title code that reflects that the money provided is not subject to a W-2.
2. Titles and Title Codes: The University will create a set of Trainee titles and title
codes for this group of employees parallel to section I.A.2 above.
C. New “Fellow” Category of Employees
1. Definition: Graduate student who (a) obtains individual fellowship(s) where receipt
of the fellowship funding requires the performance of a service for the University;
and (b) performs research in an academic department or research unit, provided
that the graduate student is performing this fellowship research under the
control of the University and under the specific direction of a faculty member or
authorized Principal Investigator.
2. Titles and Title Codes: The University will create new “Fellow” title codes for this
group of employees.
D. GSRAs at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory – Category of Employees
1. GSRAs will be placed into the appropriate above UC GSR title codes, or LBL will
create a parallel set of title codes for GSRAs.
II. Exclusion from the Unit: Anyone not defined as employees above are excluded from the unit, including, but not limited to:
i. All employees defined by HEERA as managerial, supervisory and/or confidential;
ii. All employees of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and Los Alamos National
Laboratory;
iii. All employees in title code CWR003 – Visiting Student Res-Graduate;
iv. All positions that are exclusively represented at the time of this petition;
v. All staff positions covered by the University of California Office of the President Personnel Policies for Staff Members; and
vi. Students who receive funding, including financial aid awards, to pursue a course of study with no or de minimis service expectation imposed by the University, and whose receipt of these funds does not require the performance of service at the direction and control of the University.
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Antioch University: FT and RPT Faculty Vote for SEIU Representation |
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Antioch University, NLRB Case No 19-RC-284405
On December 17, 2021, the NLRB tallied the ballots in an election concerning an SEIU petition seeking to represent a full-time and regular part-time faculty multi-state, multi-campus bargaining unit of Antioch University faculty.
In a bargaining unit of 597, 231 faculty voted in favor of SEIU representation and 37 voted against.
The following is the at-issue new bargaining unit at Antioch University:
Included: All full-time and regular part-time core faculty, teaching faculty, clinical faculty, affiliate faculty and adjunct faculty employed by the Employer and working at its campuses in Keene, New Hampshire; Culver City, California; Santa Barbara, California; and working at its online campuses operating out of Yellow Springs, Ohio.
Excluded: Administrators, deans, academic unit heads, department/program chairs, and clinic managers, regardless of additional teaching responsibilities or contract type; non-faculty staff, non-administrative staff who are not compensated additionally for teaching, and all other employees, non -professional employees, managers, and guards and supervisors as defined in the Act.
It is likely that the new faculty bargaining unit will be merged with an existing SEIU-represented faculty bargaining at Antioch's Seattle campus, which was certified in 2014:
Included: All full-time and regular part-time faculty, including core, teaching, clinical, affiliate and adjunct faculty employed by the Employer at its Seattle, Washington campus.
Excluded: Administrators, deans, academic unit heads, department/program chairs, and clinic managers, regardless of additional teaching responsibilities or contract type; non-faculty staff, non-administrative staff who are not compensated additionally for teaching, and all other employees, guards, managers, and supervisors as defined in the Act.
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Northwestern University: SEIU Certified to Represent Library Staff Unit |
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Northwestern University, NLRB Case No. 13-RC-284411
On December 3, 2021, the NLRB tallied the ballots in an election conducted concerning a petition filed by SEIU seeking to represent a combined unit of professional and non-professional library employees at Northwestern University.
In a bargaining unit of 107 employees, 70 voted in favor of SEIU representation and 28 voted against.
The following is a description of the combined professional and non-professional unit at Northwestern University:
Included: All full-time and regular part-time Communications Specialists; Developers; Developer Leads; non-supervisory Developers Senior; non-supervisory and non-managerial Librarians; non-supervisory Senior Librarians; Systems Administrators; non-supervisory Systems Administrators Senior; Senior Software Developers; Technical Support Specialists Senior; Web and Electronic Communication Specialists; Administrative Assistants I; Administrative Assistants II; Administrative Assistants III; Conservation Technicians; Customer Service Representatives; Collection & Digitization Assistants; Digitization Assistants; Financial Assistants; Library Assistants I: Library Assistants II; non-supervisory Library Assistants III; Library Clerks I; Library Clerks II; Mail Delivery Workers; Technical Support Specialists; User Service Representatives II; User Support Specialists; User Support Specialist Associates; all other non-professional, non-supervisory, non-managerial, non-confidential, non-guard employees employed by Northwestern University at its main library currently located in Evanston, Illinois.
Excluded: All other Northwestern University employees, Northwestern University library staff working in the Pritzker (Law School) or Galter (Medical School) libraries; student employees; University Press employees; library employees performing work primarily in the foreign State of Qatar; employees of the Styberg Library located within Northwestern University; University Librarian (Dean of Libraries); Associate University Librarians; Directors; Associate Directors; Business Administrators; Business Coordinator; Collections Coordinator; Circulation Services Supervisor; Chief Conservator; Curators; Digitization Manager; Library Department Head; Ops Manager; Manager Library Facility/Security; Project Manager Lead; Systems Analyst Lead; Receiving Room Supervisor; University Archivist; Executive Assistant; managers; confidential employees; temporary employees; fellows; statutory guards and supervisors as defined in the Act.
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Cornish College of the Arts: Professional Staff Union Certified |
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Cornish College of the Arts, NLRB Case No. 19-RC-276616
The NLRB has certified Office & Professional Employees International Union, Local 8 (OPEIU) to be the exclusive representative of a bargaining unit of non-faculty professionals at Cornish College of the Arts.
The certification followed a December 1, 2021 ballot tally, which demonstrated that in a bargaining unit of 42 non-faculty professional employees, 25 voted for representation by OPEIU and 5 voted against. The Cornish Federation of Teachers, AFT Local 4169 already represents the faculty at the institution.
The following is the newly certified non-faculty professional unit at Cornish College of the Arts:
Included: Counselor and Clinical Supervisor, Library Specialist, Access Services Librarian, and Performing Arts Librarian employed by the Employer at its Seattle, Washington, Campus.
Excluded: All other employees, non-professional employees, managerial employees, confidential employees, and guards and supervisors as defined in the Act.
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Bates College: Representation Election Scheduled for a Combined Unit |
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President and Trustees of Bates College, NLRB Case No. 01-RC-284384
On December 16, 2021, the NLRB Region 1 Director issued a decision and direction of election concerning a petition filed by Maine Service Employee Association–SEIU Local 1989 seeking to represent a combined professional and non-professional unit of approximately 630 employees including contingent faculty and staff at Bates College in Maine. The following is the unit sought in the petition by the Maine Service Employee Association–SEIU Local 1989:
Included: All non-tenure and non-tenure track faculty and all staff.
Excluded: All tenured and tenure track faculty, confidential employees, managers,
guards and supervisors as defined in the Act.
Following a hearing, the NLRB Region 1 Director concluded the proposed unit of all full-time and regular part-time professional and non-professional employees was presumptively appropriate and met the traditional community of interest standards to constitute an appropriate unit.
The Region 1 Director also ordered the conduct of a mail ballot representation election due the pandemic with the ballots being mailed out on January 6, 2022 and the vote tally taking place on January 31, 2022. Consistent with NLRB procedures, a combined unit of professionals and non-professionals will be subject to the professionals voting in the affirmative to the question of whether they want to be included with non-professionals for purposes of collective bargaining.
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University of New Mexico: Card Check Conducted for GSE Unit |
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University of New Mexico, PERLB Case No. 307-20
On December 17, 2021, the New Mexico Public Employee Relations Labor Board (NMPELRB) conducted a card check concerning the petition filed by UE seeking to represent a new bargaining unit of graduate assistants at the University of New Mexico. The card check concluded that in a unit of 1,547, UE had submitted 887 cards demonstrating that it had majority support. Following the card check, NMPELRB will review the card check at its next meeting and issue a certification. Thereafter, it is likely that the university will challenge in state court the right of graduate assistants to unionize, the conduct of the card check, and the certification.
In related news, the UE petition seeking to represent graduate assistants at New Mexico State University (NMSU) has been transferred to NMPELRB for processing after the NMSU Labor Relations Board dissolved following the resignation of two members. |
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University of Washington: UAW Files for Research Scientists Unit |
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University of Washington, WPERC Case No. 134711-E
On December 20, 2021, the UAW filed a petition with the Washington Public Employment Relations Commission seeking to represent a unit of 1,450 Research Scientist/Engineer employees.
The following is the at-issue bargaining unit:
Included: All Research Scientist/Engineer employees employed by the University of Washington in the following titles: Research Scientist/Engineer-Assistant (19691); Research Scientist/ Engineer 1 (19692) Research Scientist/Engineer 3 (11494, 19308); Research Scientist/Engineer 4 (11495).
Excluded: All confidential employees, supervisors, employees covered under Chapter 41.76 RCW, and employees included in any other bargaining unit.
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Bryant University: AFSCME Files to Represent Staff Bargaining Unit |
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Bryant University, NLRB Case No. 01-RC-287264
On December 6, 2021, AFSCME filed a petition with the NLRB seeking to represent a unit of 83 maintenance and custodial staff at Bryant University in Rhode Island.
The following is the at-issue bargaining unit:
Included: Maintenance, locksmiths, ground workers, custodians, truck drivers, parking attendants.
Excluded: All other employees, professional, managerial, supervisors, confidential as defined in the Act.
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Rhode Island School of Design: IBT Petitions for a Custodial Unit |
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Rhode Island School of Design, NLRB Case No. 01-RC-287879
On December 17, 2021, IBT filed a petition with the NLRB seeking to represent a unit of 67 full-time and part-time custodial and facilities employees at the Rhode Island School of Design.
The following is the petitioned-for unit:
Included: All full-time and part-time custodians, facilities (including grounds/caretakers and movers and group leaders employed by RI School of Design at its 2 college Street, Providence, RI campus.
Excluded: All other employees, guards, managers and supervisors as defined in the Act.
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The National Center Welcomes Dean Hubbard to its Board of Advisors
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The National Center welcomes Dean Hubbard to its Board of Advisors, replacing Debbie Bell, the former Professional Staff Congress (PSC) Executive Director.
Dean is the new Executive Director of the PSC, the union that represents more than 30,000 active and retired faculty and staff at the City University of New York, the nation's largest urban university system. Previously, he was Director of Collective Bargaining at the Amalgamated Transit Union, which represents 200,000 transportation workers throughout the United States and Canada. From 2013-2017, he was Director of the Labor and Economic Justice Program at the Sierra Club, the nation's largest grass roots environmental organization. At the Transport Workers Union of America (2008-2012) he was responsible for strategic campaigns, legal advocacy and research on policy and organizing matters worldwide. He has taught at CUNY’s Murphy Institute (now the School for Labor and Urban Studies) and at Sarah Lawrence College, where he was the Joanne Woodward Chair in Public Policy and Advocacy and established the Institute for Policy Alternatives (IPA). He co-founded the progressive workers’ rights law firm Eisner & Hubbard, P.C. Dean is a strategic consultant for organizations dedicated to economic, environmental, and racial justice. He has published articles in numerous journals, is an accomplished teacher, and has organized and led tribunals and delegations on labor and human rights issues worldwide.
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Highlights from the National Center's 48th Annual Conference |
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The National Center's virtual May 2021 national conference was a major success. We thank the panelists and moderators who participated in the conference, as well as, all of the attendees.
Below are links to video recordings of conference presentations along with links to panel descriptions, panelists bios, and written materials.
Welcoming Remarks and Announcement with Jennifer J. Raab, Hunter College President, William A. Herbert, National Center Executive Director, DeWayne Sheaffer, President, NEA's National Council for Higher Education, Alexandra Matish, Associate Vice Provost for Academic and Faculty Affairs, University of Michigan, Jeffrey Cross and Gary Rhoades, Journal of Collective Bargaining in the Academy.
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 Description and Panelists Bios Reading Material
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 was co-sponsored by the LERA Higher Education Industry Council. Panel Description and Panelist Bios
Challenges of the Past Year and Perspectives about the Future with Daniel Greenstein, Chancellor, Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education, S usan 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 Description and Panelists Bios
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 Description and Panelists Bios
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 Description and Panelists Bios
COVID-19 and Racial Equity in Higher Education with Amalia Dache, Assistant Professor, Higher Education Division, 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 Description and Panelists Bios
Joe Biden and Catholicism in the United States with Massimo Faggioli Professor of Theology and Religious Studies, Villanova University and contributing writer to Commonweal magazine, E.J. Dionne, Jr., Washington Post Syndicated Columnist, Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution, and Georgetown University Professor, Heidi Schlumpf, Executive Editor, National Catholic Reporter, and Paul Moses, Professor of Journalism, Brooklyn College, CUNY, Moderator. This panel was co-sponsored by the Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute and Commonweal Magazine.
Just Universities: Catholic Social Teaching Confronts Corporatized Universities with Gerald J. Beyer, Associate Professor of Christian Ethics, Villanova University, Patricia McGuire, President, Trinity Washington University, Discussant, Mary-Antoinette Smith, Professor, English, and Executive Director, National Association for Women in Catholic Higher Education (NAWCHE), Seattle University, Lily Ryan, Organizer, Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor, Georgetown University, and Donna Haverty-Stacke, Professor, History, Hunter College, CUNY, Moderator. This panel was co-sponsored by the Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute and Commonweal Magazine.
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 Description and Panelists Bios
Social Unionism to Bargaining for the Common Good in Higher Education: Then and Now with Charles Toombs, President, California Faculty Association, Ellen Schrecker, Professor Emerita of American History, Yeshiva University, Andrew Feffer, Professor, History, Union College and author of Bad Faith: Teachers, Liberalism, and the Origins of McCarthyism, Marilyn Sneiderman, Professor and Director, Center for Innovation in Worker Organization, Rutgers University School of Management and Labor Relations, and Malini Cadambi-Daniel, Director for Higher Education, SEIU, Moderator. Panel Description and Panelists Bios
How Public Employees Win and Lose the Right to Bargain with Dominic Wells, Assistant Professor, Political Science, Bowling Green State University, author of From Collective Bargaining to Collective Begging: How Public Employees Win and Lose the Right to Bargain (2020), William P. Jones, Professor & Director of Graduate Studies, Department of History, University of Minnesota, President, Labor and Working-Class History Association, Eleni Schirmer, PhD candidate at University of Wisconsin-Madison in Educational Policy Studies, and William A. Herbert, National Center Executive Director, Moderator. Panel Description and Panelists Bios
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 Description and Panelists Bios
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 Description and Panelists Bios
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 Description and Panelists Bios
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 Description and Panelists Bios
The Future of Graduate Assistant Unionization with Ken Lang, Director of Organizing, UAW, Peter MacKinnon, SEIU Local 509 President and Chair, Higher Education Council, Kavitha Iyengar, Graduate Assistant Union President, UAW 2865, University of California, Shukura Umi, Executive Vice President, United Campus Workers, and Joseph van der Naald, Graduate Student Researcher, Program in Sociology, Graduate Center, CUNY, Moderator. Panel Description and Panelists Bios
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 Description and Panelists Bios
Preparing and Presenting Grievances in Arbitration with Letitia F. Silas, Executive Director of Systemwide Labor Relations, University of California , E. Kevin Young, Associate Director for System-wide Labor Relations, University of California, Tara Singer-Blumberg Labor Relations Specialist, New York State United Teachers National Center Executive Director William A. Herbert, and Homer C. La Rue, Labor Arbitrator, Mediator, and Professor of Law, Howard University School of Law, Panelist and Moderator.
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The National Center has published the latest volume of the Journal of Collective Bargaining in the Academy, on the theme Beyond Getting Back to the New/Old “Normal." We thank the Journal's co-editors Jeffrey Cross and Gary Rhoades for their tireless work.
Below are links to the articles in the current volume:
Op-Ed
Articles
The Journal is an open access, peer-reviewed, online periodical, the purpose of which is to advance research and scholarly thought related to academic collective bargaining and to make relevant and pragmatic peer-reviewed research readily accessible to practitioners and to scholars in the field.
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.
The Journal is supported, in part, by a generous contribution from TIAA and is hosted by the institutional repository of Eastern Illinois University.
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