Union News in Brief

Part-time faculty members at the University of Rhode Island voted in favor of forming a union last week. They’ll be represented in collective bargaining by the campus chapter of the American Association of University Professors, which also represents full-time faculty members and graduate employees at URI. For more information, see an AAUP press release.

Meanwhile, in Canada, classes were canceled at Acadia University on Monday as faculty members and librarians went on strike for the second time in three years, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation reports.