Adjunct Professors Overwhelmingly Reject Unionization

Campaign to organize adjunct faculty members fails on a vote of 136 to 74.

A campaign to organize adjunct faculty has run aground at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, where independent instructors voted against forming a union.

After a hotly contested union election, the vote was 84 in favor and 136 opposed, according to union officials.

The results, announced late Monday, dealt a setback to organizers of Adjunct Action, an offshoot of the Service Employees International Union, who had hoped to build momentum for a statewide effort to improve pay and benefits for part-time instructors.

Comments

[Bill]

Those professors are probably not smart enough to know
what is good for them and are being taken advantage of. 🙂

[Brochettaward]

See, if they unionized and got pay, then when they get tenure, they wouldn't be able to so smug.

[mr lizard]

Wow I'm actually thoroughly shocked. I figured most who taught at the college level would be on the lefty pro-union side. I actually smell a Kocktopus/denier conspiracy.

[Mt low rider]

I'm guessing they realized that the SEIU just wants more dues to donate to Team Blue. They do have a gripe where the tenured Profs are overpaid and teach a few hours a week.

The business model of schools like St. Thomas is not sustainable. Other than access to alumni networks, the cost is not worth the degree in this day and age.