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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 ele ....
Elon University has agreed to “negotiate in good faith” with a union of its adjunct faculty following a Feb. 19 vote by the National Labor Relations Board to recognize non-tenured faculty’s right to collectively bargain. “In light of the NLRB decision, we have determined the best path at this time is to forego legal challenges and bargain in good faith with the union,” Provost Aswani Volety recently wrote in an official statement. “Elon remains committed to its values of respect, transparency and collegiality, and to the preservation of the university’s unique system of shared governance.” In its own statement, the Elon Faculty Union said the next step was to ask for input from all adjunct and contingent faculty about what they want to see in the union’s first contract with the university through surveys and information sessions and then meet with the university administration to negotiate a collective-bargaining agreement. ....