20 Plus LMU Student Orgs Call on Admin, Board to Return to the Table

UPDATED on Oct. 15, 2025

LMU students and student organizations have joined the demand for the admin and board to return to the bargaining table with non-tenure track (NTT) faculty!

Students, university staff, faculty colleagues, and alumni have loudly condemned LMU’s union-busting since the announcement on Sept. 12 that the university would refuse to recognize our union and stop negotiations for a first contract. By making our collective voices heard, our NTT union fight has garnered national attention.

Here are student organization that have written statements in support of our demand that LMU return to the table:

• Agapé Service Organization
• Bells Service Organization
• Black Student Union
• Creare Service Organization
• Crimson Circle
• LMU College Democrats
• LMU Student Honors Executive Board
• The Outlet
• Espérer Service Organization
• Ignatians Service Organization
• KUUMBA Dance Crew
• Laser Squad Bravo, LMU’s comedy improve team
• Latinx Student Union
• LMU Chess Club
• Magis Service Organization
• Middle Eastern and North African Student Association (MENASA)
• The Opportunes
• Radix Dance Crew
• Sigma Lambda Gamma National Sorority
• Songbird Theatre
• Sursum Corda Service Organization
• Students4NTT
• Words of Mouth

UPDATE: The Executive Board of LMU’s student newspaper, the Loyolan, urged the administration and board of trustees to return to bargaining with non-tenure track (NTT) faculty in an editorial published Tuesday, Oct. 14.

“The understanding of justice as ‘integrally connected to our lives of faith’ is central to the University’s mission as a Jesuit University,” the editorial says. “Catholic social teachings not only emphasize the dignity of work and workers’ rights but call us to stand in solidarity and community with one another. We believe that negotiating in good faith and respecting the desires of those faculty who choose to unionize is in line with these teachings.”

We applaud the Executive Board for its clear understanding of Catholic social teaching on the rights of workers and its commitment to collective bargaining!