Post by Logan on Mar 18, 2016 19:16:46 GMT -6
DURHAM -- Non-tenure track faculty at Duke University have voted 174 to 29 to unionize, according to a tally of ballots Friday by the National Labor Relations Board.
Those who voted yes were a majority of the 296 people eligible to vote, an NLRB spokeswoman said.
Part-time and full-time non-tenured faculty had filed a petition with the labor board in February to hold an election. A group called Duke Teaching First led the effort to join the Service Employees International Union in hopes of better pay, benefits and job security.
The Duke vote is the first union election in decades at a private university in the South, according to SEIU. But the Duke faculty join a national movement of unionization of college instructors. Some 10,000 have chosen to unionize in the past three years, SEIU said, at places such as the University of Chicago, Tufts and Georgetown universities.
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Those who voted yes were a majority of the 296 people eligible to vote, an NLRB spokeswoman said.
Part-time and full-time non-tenured faculty had filed a petition with the labor board in February to hold an election. A group called Duke Teaching First led the effort to join the Service Employees International Union in hopes of better pay, benefits and job security.
The Duke vote is the first union election in decades at a private university in the South, according to SEIU. But the Duke faculty join a national movement of unionization of college instructors. Some 10,000 have chosen to unionize in the past three years, SEIU said, at places such as the University of Chicago, Tufts and Georgetown universities.
Read more here: www.newsobserver.com/news/local/education/article66936772.html