Publications and Research
Document Type
Book Chapter or Section
Publication Date
1-23-2024
Abstract
This book chapter from Contingent Faculty and the Remaking of Higher Education: A Labor History traces the history of faculty bargaining unit composition in higher education. It examines the evolution in higher education from wall-to-wall bargaining units to professional craft units of tenured, tenure-track, and contingent faculty to separate contingent faculty units. The chapter presents historical examples of bargaining units, starting with early CIO wall-to-wall units in the 1940s, and the facts, preferences, and legal doctrines that has resulted in faculty being placed in combined or separate bargaining under collective bargaining laws. It will also explore the conflicting and congruous interests of tenure-track and contingent faculty during collective bargaining that led to combined units at some institutions and separate units at others. The chapter draws on data gathered by the National Center for the Study of Collective Bargaining in Higher Education and the Professions concerning faculty unit composition.
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