Adolfo Guzman-Lopez covers higher education for the LAist and KPCC newsroom.
If you’re enjoying this article, you’ll love LAist’s early childhood newsletter. Every two weeks, you’ll receive top reads and resources on issues affecting families with kids ages 0–5.Solidarity among faculty on the same campus may not come as a surprise. But a recent flurry of union organizing at higher education institutions in Southern California shows how much attention faculty are paying to those in unionization efforts outside of their own.
Improving health benefits, Wentz said, drove him and others at CalArts to support creating a union. The group has not delivered its petition to administrators or the National Labor Relations Board.— Tobias Higbie, director, UCLA Institute for Research on Labor and Employment“Union organizers talk to each other. Same goes in academic employment as it would in a factory job,” said Tobias Higbie, director of the Institute for Research on Labor and Employment at UCLA.
“e do not believe our faculty need a union to speak for them or that applicable law will permit it,” a USC spokesperson said by email on behalf of the university. After three groups of USC employees unionized in the last two years, university administrators rejected the latest effort by part-time, adjunct, and full -non-tenured faculty.
What academic professionals discover when they begin talking to others like them on the same campus or elsewhere is that there’s a lot of dissatisfaction with pay and benefits.And that has a lot to do, he said, with higher education funding and decisions institutions make when budgets are tight.
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