Northwestern faculty members seek to form union

[Omaha Steve]

Source: Chicago Tribune

By Alexia Elejalde-Ruiz

Northwestern University instructors are the latest to join the wave of faculty unionization efforts at elite private schools, where concerns have been mounting about low pay and insecure working conditions.

A group of adjunct and nontenure-eligible faculty members at Northwestern filed a union election petition Thursday with the National Labor Relations Board. The instructors seek to join the Service Employees International Union Local 73, which in the past six months has come to represent faculty members at Loyola University and the University of Chicago.

The proposed bargaining unit could include more than 500 Northwestern instructors, the union said. The NLRB now works with the school and union to agree on an appropriate size and set a timeline for a secret-ballot election for those affected to vote.

The union drive is part of the Service Employees International Union's Faculty Forward campaign, which since 2013 has been behind 53 faculty union votes nationwide, 51 of which have been successful, a spokesman said.

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[truedelphi]

1. Good for them. Back in the 1990's, the University got like a GAZILLION

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Dollars from the Anheuser busch beer conglomerate, and many students at the time thought most of the money went to knocking down trees and putting in parking lots.