“Students mostly just call them professors. But there are some critical differences between the traditional tenure-line professor’s position and that of the adjunct who works for a college part-time.

It is these differences – relevant to issues such as pay, benefits, job security and recognition – that have spurred a movement at Northeastern mirroring that of other colleges across the country. As The News reported last week, adjunct professors are seeking to unionize through the Service Employees International Union’s (SEIU) Adjunct Action campaign for the power to negotiate with …

“Northeastern’s Progressive Student Alliance (PSA), a social justice group, has begun a campaign in support of the unionization of Northeastern’s adjunct professors.

Tara Blumstein, a fourth year political science and international affairs dual major and PSA president, emphasized the need to show the adjuncts a great deal of student support.

“[PSA] started planning in August,” Blumstein said. “[We are] mostly there to make sure that the administration is keeping themselves in check, they’re not creating an unsafe or unwelcoming work environment for the adjuncts while they’re unionizing. …