There’s a new article in The Chronicle of Higher Education today about Adjunct Action/SEIU’s metro-organizing strategy, focusing on the efforts of adjunct faculty who are organizing across the Boston-metro area.

“The thinking behind the approach holds that sufficient union saturation of a given local labor market will not only produce big gains at unionized colleges, but put nonunionized ones under pressure to treat adjuncts better, too. Those colleges might be prompted to improve pay or working conditions to be able to compete for talent or, in some cases, to discourage potential unionization drives on their own campuses,” writes reporter Peter Schmidt in the article.

Adjunct faculty are organizing on a metro-wide level in Washington DC, Boston, LA, Seattle, Baltimore, New York’s Hudson Valley, St. Louis, Minneapolis, and Connecticut under the banner of Adjunct Action in an effort to improve working conditions and raise the standard for adjuncts.

To read the full article, click here: http://chronicle.com/article/Power-in-Numbers/145863/