Uncertainty for Non-Tenure-Track Unions

Inside Higher Ed: Could non-tenure-track faculty unions at private institutions be in trouble? The powerful U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Washington this week sent a major 2014 decision in favor of these unions back to the National Labor Relations Board for review.

The circuit court simultaneously upheld much of that NLRB decision in its recent unanimous vote, in a case involving art and design instructors at University of Southern California. But sending a precedent so favorable to adjunct unions back to a board that now includes less union-friendly Trump appointees puts the future of such unions at some risk.

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