Advocacy
Adjunct Professors Union Upheld in Court
On November 27, 2006, a federal appeals court upheld a January 2006 ruling from the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) regarding the unionization of part-time professors at George Washington University in Washington, DC.In October 2004, adjunct professors at the school voted in favor of unionization in an election certified by NLRB. The university refused to recognize or negotiate with the union on the grounds that thirty disenfranchised part-time instructors should have been permitted to vote. The decision had passed with the slim margin of 341 to 331.
In January 2006, NLRB found that George Washington University had engaged in unfair labor practice and ruled that the school had had sufficient time to argue the validity of the election in the early labor-board proceedings. The two-page decision issued by the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia echoed this view.
