Eddie Velazquez at Central Current reports hundreds of Educators and Researchers that make up almost 20% of Syracuse University’s (SU) Faculty want to form a Union. The Union would include around 350 Postdoctoral Researchers, Teaching Professors, Professors of Practice and Research Professors, if a majority of those Workers vote to Unionize at an election on April 22nd and 23rd. They’re seeking transparency and fairness around contract renewals, more lenient contracts for International Faculty, more equitable pay and a say in how decisions in their workplace are made. Their Union drive comes at a time when University Administrators plan to cut or pause almost 100 academic programs in a move administrators have said is a re-alignment to accommodate student demand. If successful, Non-Tenure Track, Full-Time Workers would join the close to 4,000 Unionized Workers at SU. Some Workers say they see wall-to-wall Union Representation at SU as a way to collectively cope with uncertainty around research funding, a difficult job market, volatile changes to labor and Immigration Laws. 

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