Part-time faculty members at Kalamazoo Valley Community College have voted overwhelmingly to form a union in what leaders of the effort call a response to excessive pressures and demands imposed on adjuncts by the Michigan college's administration last fall.
The part-time instructors voted, 162 to 38, last week to form a new collective-bargaining unit affiliated with the American Federation of Teachers. They expect to hold elections for their new union's officers next month. ...