Dive Brief:
- Non-tenure-track faculty members at Antioch University in Seattle have voted to form a union, 85 to 14.
- The mail-in vote to join Service Employees International Union Local 925 was not contested by the private nonprofit university.
- Faculty represented by the new union will include adjunct professors and contingent faculty, both in full- and part-time positions.
Dive Insight:
The adjunct-organizing effort by SEIU has more than a dozen wins, and now it chalks up another following an uncharacteristic loss earlier this week at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, MN. Two other private colleges in Washington — Pacific Lutheran University and Seattle University — are contesting union votes, with the schools claiming that the National Labor Relations board doesn’t have jurisdiction over religious universities. Antioch, which has about 900 students at its Seattle campus, also has campuses in Los Angeles and Santa Barbara, CA; Keene, NH; and Yellow Springs, OH.