Our Union is Fighting Back Against ICE

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






Fordham University AAUP Urge LMU Admin, Trustees to Return to the Bargaining Table

LMU Non-Tenure Track Faculty Union

Dear President Poon, We, the members of Fordham University AAUP (American Association of University Professors), write to strongly urge Loyola Marymount University’s Board of Trustees to retract their invocation of a “religious exemption” and return to negotiations with the non-tenure-track faculty union.  As at LMU, educators at Fordham are heir … Read More


LMU Strike Vote Authorization FAQ

LMU Strike Authorization

LMU’s board of trustees and Thomas Poon have joined the war against workers! They announced it would stop recognizing our union and end bargaining with us for a first union contract. Even if the board of trustees think they have found a legal loophole that justifies their actions, their decision is a moral failure that violates the principles of Catholic social teaching. It is union-busting, plain and simple. No university that claims to stand for justice or Jesuit values should treat its faculty this way.


Join Our Non-Tenure Track (NTT) Union General Membership Meetings!

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Our non-tenure track (NTT) faculty member union fight is part of a much bigger movement to push back against the authoritarianism that is taking hold in our nation and on our campuses. Are you an LMU non-tenure track (NTT) faculty member with questions about where we go from here? Then … Read More


Setting the Record Straight on the LMU Admin and Board’s Union-Busting Lies

LMU Union-busting lies

Lie #1: The NTT faculty union is a “third-party” organization or “outside entity.” Nope. Our union is 100% faculty led. We formed our union with SEIU Local 721 with a federally certified vote of nearly 90% approval from non-tenure track (NTT) faculty. Our 15-member Bargaining Action Team, which negotiated directly with … Read More