Post by Logan on Jan 26, 2016 15:00:35 GMT -6
Campaign to organize thousands of faculty, grad workers at Pitt underway
A campaign to organize 5,000 faculty and almost 3,000 graduate employees at the University of Pittsburgh is now officially underway, its kick-off occurring at an Oakland news conference today just off the sprawling state-related university.
The United Steelworkers is coordinating efforts with two campus groups hoping to form two separate bargaining units within the Steelworkers, one for adjuncts and tenure-stream faculty at Pitt and the other for graduate workers there.
In the Pittsburgh region, the USW so far has organized adjuncts at Point Park University and Robert Morris University, as well as Duquesne University, though that school continues to challenge the union, citing the Catholic university's religious mission.
The drive at Pitt will include both the main Oakland campus and the university's branch campuses at Bradford, Greensburg, Johnstown and Titusville.
Read more: www.post-gazette.com/news/education/2016/01/26/Campaign-to-organize-thousands-of-faculty-grad-workers-at-Pitt-underway/stories/201601260159
A campaign to organize 5,000 faculty and almost 3,000 graduate employees at the University of Pittsburgh is now officially underway, its kick-off occurring at an Oakland news conference today just off the sprawling state-related university.
The United Steelworkers is coordinating efforts with two campus groups hoping to form two separate bargaining units within the Steelworkers, one for adjuncts and tenure-stream faculty at Pitt and the other for graduate workers there.
In the Pittsburgh region, the USW so far has organized adjuncts at Point Park University and Robert Morris University, as well as Duquesne University, though that school continues to challenge the union, citing the Catholic university's religious mission.
The drive at Pitt will include both the main Oakland campus and the university's branch campuses at Bradford, Greensburg, Johnstown and Titusville.
Read more: www.post-gazette.com/news/education/2016/01/26/Campaign-to-organize-thousands-of-faculty-grad-workers-at-Pitt-underway/stories/201601260159