A 'yes' vote would create the largest union of full-time, nontenured track faculty at a private US university.
Contingent professors scored a victory January 3 when they got New York University to agree to a union election this semester, and to remain neutral during the process. The election is scheduled for February 27 and 28. If they vote yes, Contract Faculty United -UAW Local 7902 will become the largest union in the country of full-time, non-tenure-track faculty at a private university, with 950 members.
At NYU, they are called “contract faculty” and make up roughly half of all the professors. Their contracts are typically for three to five years, but can be as short as one or as long as nine years. Once their contract expires, they must renew it by essentially re-applying for their jobs. To avoid getting tied up in legal challenges, CFU-UAW chose not to go through the National Labor Relations Board. Instead, the union delivered a petition in early 2023 demanding the university administration agree to a voluntary process to verify the union’s majority support and begin collective bargaining. Soon after, CFU-UAW began meeting with the administration’s legal team to negotiate the proposed process and determine who could be included in the union.
Rodriguez, who has been at the college of nursing since 2007, helped organize her fellow contract faculty, holding regular meetings to answer questions about what it would mean to unionize. Faculty in other colleges and schools across NYU held similar meetings, and wore buttons, displayed posters, and held informational pickets and rallies.
The union hopes the agreement will serve as a model for other contract faculty at private universities.
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