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Pace alums asked to join e-mail blitz backing adjunct union
Feb 14, 2008 12:16 PM
UFT President Randi Weingarten is stopped by security as she tries to deliver a Christmas gift — a package of coal — to Pace University President Stephen Friedman in December. Joining her are UFT Director of Legislation/ Political Action Marvin Reiskin (left) and then Director of Staff Jeff Zahler.
UFT President Randi Weingarten is urging all UFT and NYSUT members who are Pace University alumni to e-mail the university’s president and urge him to negotiate in good faith with the adjunct faculty local union.
For three years, the administration has refused to settle the first-ever contract with its Union of Adjunct Faculty at Pace. The UAFP — which represents approximately 1,000 adjunct faculty at Pace’s three campuses in Westchester and New York City — joined NYSUT in 2004 and negotiations began that fall.
Negotiations have remained at an impasse since last year, when the university objected to a National Labor Relations Board decision to allow into the collective-bargaining unit all adjuncts who teach at least three credit hours and/or 45 hours in a semester.
But a January decision by the Washington, D.C., Circuit of the U.S. Court of Appeals affirmed the NLRB’s original certification of this bargaining unit.
The two sides were expected to return to the bargaining table in early February.
Union leaders feel vindicated by the federal circuit court decision that potentially means adding hundreds of members to a bargaining unit of 750 members.
Weingarten and other UFTers joined the UAFP in a demonstration at the Manhattan campus in December.
Pace alums who wish to help
should e-mail Pace President
Stephen J. Friedman at sfriedman@pace.edu.
