St. John’s University, a Catholic school in New York, announced recently that it was invoking a religious exemption from labor law and was busting its two faculty unions on campus. Sound familiar? LMU invoked the same bogus exemption last year to try and break our union of non-tenure track (NTT) … Read More
On Tues., Feb. 24, LMU union faculty joined a delegation that marched to the office of Fr. Eddie Siebert, a member of the university’s board of trustees, and called on the faith leader to support returning to contract bargaining with instructors. The delegation — which included the Catholic Labor Network … Read More
On Tues., Nov. 18, 2025, members of our Occidental College student worker bargaining team organized a protest on the quad calling out our admin’s disrespectful behavior in bargaining for our first union contract. School officials demanded our colleagues stop using bullhorns at the action and later sent disciplinary warnings to … Read More
Occidental College’s admin has disrespected student workers in negotiations for a union contract from day one and has broken labor law to try and silence our voices. Here’s what they’ve proposed in bargaining: It’s clear to us that Oxy wants to maintain the status quo. We can’t let them. Our … Read More
Since joining SEIU Local 721 in summer 2024, Oxy student workers have been hard at work bargaining with Occidental College for a strong union contract. Unfortunately, the college has met us with union-busting tactics and disrespectful proposals that do nothing to change the status quo. Among many other workplace proposals, … Read More
We are Occidental College Student Workers. We are essential in our roles as resident advisors, graders, tutors, translators, researchers, lifeguards, service workers, photographers, mail clerks, tour guides, and more. Despite our diverse jobs on campus, we are united in our goals to win respect and a strong union contract that … Read More
Join us on Tues., Feb. 24, at 2:30PM at LMU’s back gate entrance at Loyola Blvd. & W 80th St. for a rally and march demanding LMU’s admin resume bargaining with non-tenure track (NTT) faculty and stop its union-busting. After the rally, we’ll march to Provost Kat Weaver’s Community Conversations … Read More
After attempting to bust our union, LMU’s administration has claimed that non-tenure track (NTT) faculty will still have a voice through shared governance in the Faculty Senate. But what does the admin mean by shared governance? Well, just take it from President Thomas Poon. In May 2024, Poon, then our … Read More
From Los Angeles, to Minneapolis, to Portland, Maine, our siblings in the Service Employees International Union are fighting back against the attacks on our communities by Border Patrol and Immigration and Customs Enforcement. On Friday, Jan. 23, members of Minnesota’s SEIU Local 26, along with other unions, faith groups, and … Read More
The Staff Senate at Loyola Marymount University passed a resolution calling on the administration and board of trustees to return to contract bargaining with unionized non-tenure track (NTT) faculty. The resolution by the senate — which represents administrative employees in various offices, including academic and student affairs — passed in … Read More