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USAS: Strengthening Student Power at the Bargaining Table
… adjunct faculty fighting for a union at Fordham University in the Bronx, N.Y. What should have been a peaceful march to the president’s office ended with a violent assault on student activists by campus security. All the while, the president, … and alumni called more than a hundred times, demanding justice for the student activists and the freedom for adjuncts to unionize. The following week, the university president conceded, giving adjunct faculty the recognition for a union. These … USAS is demanding an end to the economic crisis of the working poor on our campuses and communities. What does our work mean for the future of the labor movement? For two decades, USAS has served as the the strongest student to union …