Education workers organize the South
By calvin deutschbein posted on April 5, 2021
Elon, N.C.
Two years after voting by a 2-to-1 margin to unionize, on March 4 the embattled Elon Faculty Union finally forced the greedy administrators of Elon University to the bargaining table. EFU is Local 32 of the Service Employees Union, Workers United Southern Region.
Students for an Equitable Elon stage a banner drop in March 2020, one of many direct actions in support of the Elon Faculty Union.
A victory for all of us
The faculty union represents hundreds of adjunct and contingent faculty, a powerful presence of organized educators on this rural campus near Greensboro, N.C. The university sits in one of the most reactionary locales in the U.S., home to unusually violent voter suppression and family-separation actions by local law enforcement. U.S. Postmaster General Louis DeJoy, one of the leading architects of the Trump campaign to disrupt the 2020 presidential election, is a trustee o
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Elon University has selected Joseph LeMire, a career law enforcement officer with more than 28 years of experience, as its new chief of Campus Safety & Police. He will join the university on March 29.
Joseph LeMire, the new chief of Campus Safety Police
LeMire comes to Elon from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Police Department, where he has served as chief since 2015. Throughout his career, he has built a reputation as a principled leader with experience in strategic planning, risk management, emergency response and community collaboration. His has focused on community policing and building relationships due to his belief that collaboration makes for a stronger, safer community.