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Every Grain of Sand: 2024 Changes to the Scope of Higher Education Unionization

Year: 2025

Type: article

Abstract: In this research note, we supplement the findings presented in the National Center’s 2024 Directory of Bargaining Agents and Contracts in Institutions of Higher Education. We aggregate and analyze data on changes in academic collective bargaining relationships for faculty, postdoctoral scholars, and graduate and undergraduate student employees in the year 2024. Our findings demonstrate that the growth in academic collective bargaining over the past decade that we documented in the 2024 Directory has continued. However, we find some significant contractions in faculty unionization through institutional closures and the revocation of bargaining units in the state of Florida. The research note closes with reflections on the implications of the changing federal legal landscape for the future of academic collective bargaining.

Source: Journal of Collective Bargaining in the Academy

DOI: 10.58188/1941-8043.1926

Authors: William A. Herbert, Joseph van der Naald, Jacob Apkarian

Institutions: Hunter College, The Graduate Center, CUNY, York College, City University of New York

Language: English

Topic: Labor Movements and Unions

Subfield: Public Administration

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: diamond

OpenAlex ID: W4408949938

FWCI: 3.582

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Cited by: 2

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