On Tuesday, the day of Thomas Poon’s inauguration as campus president, non-tenure track (NTT) faculty and supporters held a massive Day of Action on campus. Together, with students, colleagues, and community supporters, we denounced the university administration and board of trustees’ MAGA-style union busting and we called for school officials … Read More
Join LMU students, faculty, staff, alumni, and union and community supporters on Tuesday, December 9th, for a massive day of action to demand LMU return to the bargaining table!
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’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.
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
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
On Wed., Oct. 15, more than 150 students marched on campus in support of our demand for the university to return to contract bargaining with our non-tenure track (NTT) faculty union. The march — which also included faculty members and community supporters — started at Alumni Mall and made its … Read More
Are you an LMU non-tenure track (NTT) faculty member with questions about our Unfair Labor Practice (ULP) strike authorization vote and where we go from here? Then join our upcoming General Membership Meetings! In-Person: Thursday, Oct. 23, 6PM Tower Pizza, 8351 Lincoln Blvd. Zoom: Friday, Oct. 24, 10AM Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/2211202419?omn=88372901862 … Read More
Xavier Becerra, former U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services and California Attorney General, joined the chorus of voices opposing the administration and board of trustees’ invocation of an alleged religious exemption to bust our non-tenure track (NTT) faculty union and end bargaining with us. At a campus forum on … Read More
In an Oct. 13 statement, the LMU Student Labor and Employment Law Society blasted the administration and board for invoking a religious exemption to stop recognition of our NTT faculty union and called on the administration to return to bargaining. The letter, signed by Luke Banda, President of the Labor … Read More