Union's Bid to Organize Georgetown U. Adjuncts Is Part of an Innovative Regional Strategy

By Peter Schmidt

Washington

The Service Employees International Union has mounted an unusual effort to unionize adjunct faculty members at enough colleges in a metropolitan area to potentially gain leverage over pay and benefits throughout the local academic labor market.

SEIU Local 500 began a campaign to organize an adjunct union at Georgetown University in August, having previously unionized adjuncts at two other local private institutions,