University of Pittsburgh faculty vote to unionize in landslide election

[FakeNoose]

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(link) https://www.post-gazette.com/news/education/2021/10/19/Pitt-faculty-vote-to-unionize-in-landslide-election-United-steelworkers/stories/202110190153

NEENA HAGEN
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
OCT 19, 2021 4:57 PM

Faculty at the University of Pittsburgh will be forming a union, capping a five-year organizing campaign with an overwhelming vote in favor of joining the United Steelworkers.

The final tally Tuesday showed that 1,511 faculty members voted in favor of a union and 612 voted against.

The Pennsylvania Labor Relations Board announced the results around 3 p.m., after counting began at 10 a.m. in the agency’s Harrisburg headquarters. The labor board mailed ballots to union-eligible faculty at the end of August and accepted all ballots returned by mail before Oct. 12 at 5 p.m.

Pitt’s faculty union will become the largest new union of any kind in the country this year, organizers said, with more than 3,000 people represented across all five of the university’s campuses. The union includes all full-time and tenured professors, as well as some part-time faculty.

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This is sort of a BIG DEAL in Pittsburgh! We were a once proud union stronghold here in Pittsburgh, because of the steelworkers more than anything else. No need to explain that the steelworkers are weaker numbers nowadays, and the unions have lost a lot of strength since the 1980s. So it seems that white collar unions will be the next big thing.

[BigmanPigman]

1. It's about time...

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

2. Good news.

And thank you for that picture of the Cathedral of Learning. My very best friend in the whole world went to school there, and a while back when visiting him he brought me there and gave me a tour and showed me some of the wonderful classrooms he'd had there.

Talk about a hidden treasure.

[FakeNoose]

3. It's an amazing building, the Cathedral of Learning

Did you get to see any of the Nationality Rooms? They are all unique, beautiful and historic, but I'm partial to the German Room because I'm on the committee.

This link shows current photos of the Pitt Nationality Rooms. A few of the rooms are recently added, but many are the original Nationality Rooms from the 1930's. They were were designed and constructed by committees of Pittsburgh residents who are proud of their heritage. I believe this community involvement is original and unique in the United States.

(link) https://www.nationalityrooms.pitt.edu/

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

5. Yes, I did.

My friend had various classes in some of the Nationality Rooms.

It was amazing, both the information on the various rooms, and that my friend had had classes there. And I believe that is still true.

I'm saddened that more people outside of the University of Pittsburgh do not know about the Cathedral of Learning.

[greenjar_01]

4. "The union includes all full-time and tenured professors, as well as some part-time faculty."

This should read "The union includes all full-time and tenure-line faculty, as well as some part-time faculty.

Just once, I'd like to see a journalist write a story about universities and actually know what the fuck they're talking about.