ACAO Free Webinar Discussion - Labor Relations
Tuesday, March 27, 2018, 12:00 PM - 5:00 PM EDT
Category: Upcoming Events
ACAO Free Coffee Hour Discussion!!Two recent developments have made labor relations, and particularly the unionization of academic groups, a topic of increased interest in higher education. First, reliance on non-tenure-track faculty, both part-time and full-time, has increased, and, with it, the voice of such faculty on campuses. Second, in 2016, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) overturned their 2004 decision that graduate student assistants could not unionize. There has been an increase, as a result, in union activity on private campuses and, with it, in the courts, as the legitimacy of organizing drives is questioned. The Chief Academic Officer will inevitably be involved in campus academic labor movements. The webinar will provide a private forum for discussion of the following questions:
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