Unit Description

Bargaining unit is now 1,100 workers.

universitywide wall-to-wall of service and maintenance employees (including mechanics, food service, groundskeepers, etc.)

https://books.google.com/books?id=nuY_BAAAQBAJ&pg=PA276&lpg=PA276&dq=cornell+workers+vote+to+unionize+1981+uaw&source=bl&ots=gukJbmHt9N&sig=ACfU3U1eq4Xt3XuqQSjvwv6q2HOxzDI4YA&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjc7Pnfn4r1AhUykIkEHcamBdwQ6AF6BAgSEAM#v=onepage&q=cornell%20workers%20vote%20to%20unionize%201981%20uaw&f=false

universitywide wall-to-wall of clerical and technical employees

https://www.nytimes.com/1985/02/09/nyregion/the-city-union-at-columbia-wins-certification.html

Bargaining unit is now 4,000 workers. An important campaign to study because of the high voter turnout, extraordinary opposition of the administration, and even stronger solidarity between the workers.

universitywide wall-to-wall of clerical and technical employees

https://www.nytimes.com/1983/06/26/nyregion/office-workers-hail-a-victory.html

Bargaining unit is now 5,000 workers. An important campaign to study because of the high voter turnout, extraordinary opposition of the administration, and even stronger solidarity between the workers.

universitywide wall-to-wall of clerical and technical employees

https://prospect.org/labor/solidaritas-harvard/

Prevously Local 1188, merged with Local 1112 into Local 1104 in 2001

wall-to-wall unit of graduate workers, across four main campuses (Albany, Binghamton, Buffalo, Stony Brook) and oher campuses

https://dspace.sunyconnect.suny.edu/bitstream/handle/1951/43646/News%20and%20Views,%20V.%203,%20N.%205.PDF?sequence=1&isAllowed=y

After a loss, COGS joined UE and won recognition. Bargaining unit is now 1,900 workers.

wall-to-wall unit of graduate workers (teaching and research assistants)

https://cogs.org/about-cogs/history

Bargaining unit is now 3,800 workers. UPTE also represents two other systemwide bargaining units and several smaller ones for a total of 16,000 workers.

statewide wall-to-wall unit of technical employees at Berkeley, Davis, Irvine, Los Angeles, Merced, Riverside, San Diego, Santa Barbara, Santa Cruz, and San Francisco campuses

https://dailybruin.com/1994/11/22/ucla-technical-workers-get-uni /// https://ucnet.universityofcalifornia.edu/labor/bargaining-units/tx/about.html

Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, social sciences and humanities graduate teacing assistants

https://www.thecrimson.com/article/1995/4/7/striking-yale-tas-vote-to-unionize/

Bargaining unit is now 1,900 workers

wall-to-wall unit of graduate workers (teaching and research assistants)

https://cogs.org/about-cogs/history

Third no union vote for this bargaining unit (1978, 1981).

wall-towall unit of faculty, excluding the Health Center and Law School

https://mndaily.com/192770/uncategorized/then-again-maybe-not/

Unit of systems analysts, accountants, scientists and other non-manual, non-clerical employees

https://mndaily.com/214260/uncategorized/professional-workers-soundly-reject-unionization/

Third union election for this unit, all losses (1974, 1990).

wall-to-wall unit of graduate workers (teaching and research assistants)

http://www.eiaonline.com/intercepts/2011/01/03/from-the-vault-may-11-1999/

Bargaining unit is now 19,000 workers at Berkeley, Davis, Irvine, Los Angeles, Merced, Riverside, San Diego, Santa Barbara, Santa Cruz campuses

statewide wall-to-wall unit of graduate and undergraduate academic student employees (Teaching Assistants, Graduate Student Instructors, Tutors, and Readers)

https://www.marxists.org/history/etol//newspape/atc/1705.html

There were also 295 challenged ballots, most of which were discarded.

All teaching assistants, graduate assistants, research assistants (including teaching fellows, research fellows, Metro Center tutors, and preceptors), excluding research assistants with externally funded grants

https://www.sciencemag.org/careers/2000/11/nyu-grads-win-vote-unionize-amid-controversy /// https://www.sciencemag.org/careers/2000/05/unionize-or-not-unionize-voters-question

Bargaining unit is now 1,200 workers.

wall-to-wall unit of grad employees

https://www.tugsa.org/history

Urbana-Champaign, IL

universitywide wall-to-wall unit of teaching assistants and graduate assistants

https://news.illinois.edu/view/6367/212287

universitywide wall-to-wall unit of graduate teaching and research assistants

https://www.nlrb.gov/sites/default/files/attachments/pages/node-144/ernov2002.pdf ///// https://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/26/nyregion/graduate-assistants-at-cornell-vote-decisively-against-autoworkers-union.html

This was a runoff election between the UAW and AFT, with the former receiving 827 votes and the latter 688 (here listed in the "No Votes" column). There were also 81 challenged ballots and 101 voided ballots.

universitywide union of part-time adjunct faculty except in law, medicine, and dentistry.

https://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/10/nyregion/when-are-teachers-auto-workers-when-they-re-nyu-adjuncts.html

wall-to-wall unit of graduate workers (teaching and research assistants)

https://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/02/nyregion/grad-students-reject-union-in-yale-vote.html

Bargaining unit is now 10,000 workers

statewide wall-to-wall unit of academic student employees (Teaching Associates, Graduate Assistants, and Instructional Student Assistants) across all CSU 23 campuses

https://www.theoaklandpress.com/news/uaw-recruiting-at-colleges/article_3697ea4d-8697-5099-946d-1b9847df4e7a.html

Seattle Metro, WA

wall-to-wall unit of student workers (teaching, research, student and staff assistants, readers, tutors and graders) across three campuses (Seattle, Tacoma, Bothell)

https://www.dailyuw.com/news/article_ac34d03a-9031-5f44-bad8-5c5adb78903c.html

Fourth union election for this unit, all losses (1974, 1990, 1999).

wall-to-wall unit of graduate workers (teaching and research assistants)

https://mndaily.com/217810/uncategorized/graduate-workers-vote-reject-union/

Bargaining unit is now 6,500 workers

wall-to-wall statewide unit of postdoctoral researchers at campuses at Berkeley, Davis, Irvine, Los Angeles, Merced, Riverside, San Diego, San Francisco, Santa Barbara, Santa Cruz campuses

https://www.sciencemag.org/careers/2008/08/fat-lady-sings

State University of New York at Stony Brook Research Foundation

A unique case: the public SUNY system has a private sector affiliate known as the Research Foundation, where many SUNY Research Assistants work.

graduate Research Assistants

https://www.nlrb.gov/sites/default/files/attachments/pages/node-138/erdec2008.pdf

Also 32 challenged ballots and 1 void ballot

university wide wall-to-wall unit of graduate research assistants, teaching assistants, and graduate assistants

http://perc.myflorida.com/download.aspx/Prefix=EL/CaseYr=09/CaseNo=016/File=EL09016-Ord18-060209084355.pdf

Teaching and Research Assistants, Post-docs, Research Professionals and Adjunct Faculty in single unit

https://www.nj.com/news/2010/05/nj_graduate_students_researche.html

https://today.uconn.edu/2009/11/health-center-faculty-vote-to-unionize-in-tight-election/#

Fifth union election for this unit, all losses (1978, 1990, 1999, 2005).

wall-to-wall unit of graduate workers (teaching and research assistants)

https://www.startribune.com/grad-student-workers-at-u-reject-union-again/144265235/

Union won recognition in 2000, adminstrators pulled recogntion after end of first contract.

Unit of graduate teaching assistants, research assistants, and graduate assistants, excluding grant-funded STEM research assistants

http://region1c.uaw.org/local598/index.cfm?action=article&articleID=b59efda9-6546-4668-b889-01d61f236a48 //// https://www.jacobinmag.com/2013/12/union-again-at-nyu/

universitywide wall-to-wall unit of all faculty and postdocs.

https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2012/03/15/university-oregon-faculty-takes-step-toward-unionizing

wall-to-wall unit of student workers (teaching and research assistants) across all of Columbia's four campuses

https://myemail.constantcontact.com/National-Center-December-2016-E-Note.html?soid=1102372137664&aid=vtDgVFGUUdQ#E4

Adminstratores refused recognition, while preceding to lose many court cases, where the fight remains: https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwihv6KxloTwAhWJZs0KHZR4ADkQFjACegQIBxAD&url=https%3A%2F%2Fkrcgtv.com%2Fnews%2Flocal%2Fmissouri-supreme-court-upholds-um-system-graduate-student-bargaining-rights&usg=AOvVaw2OsoskiCuvotA1PLkf1l4X

wall-to-wall unit of graudate student workers (teaching, research, graduate assistants, etc.)

https://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2016/04/21/mizzou-grad-student-workers-vote-form-union

Bargaining unit is now 4,500 workers / Harvard administration violated the law by excluding eligible voters. Reissue election ordered in 2018, with a union win (see below).

wall-to-wall unit of teaching assistants (graduate and undergraduate) and research assistants (graduate only)

https://myemail.constantcontact.com/National-Center-October-2016-E-Note.html?soid=1102372137664&aid=Jl9T85TJ1QI#A13

Hillsborough County, FL

universitywide wall-to-wall unit of adjunct part-time faculty

https://myemail.constantcontact.com/National-Center-December-2016-E-Note.html?soid=1102372137664&aid=vtDgVFGUUdQ#E6

This was a highly undemocratic election. There were 1,098 challenged ballots, as the university and the union could not agree on voting eligibility of students with outside grants, among many others.

wall-to-wall unit of PhD graduate teaching and research assistants

https://myemail.constantcontact.com/March-2017-E-Note--News--Updates--and-Analysis.html?soid=1102372137664&aid=17Vkueu_uig#A7

universitywide wall-to-wall unit of graduate teaching and research assistants

https://uaw.org/nlrb-confirms-massive-99-6-union-yes-vote-graduate-workers-new-school/

This was a highly undemocratic election. There were 65 challenged ballots and 16 unresolved ballots, and an independent arbitrator found the administration guilty of violating the election procedure agreement but did not reorder a new union certification election.

universitywide wall-to-wall unit of graduate teaching and research assistants

https://www.ithacajournal.com/story/news/local/2018/05/17/cornell-national-labor-relations-act-graduate-students/618452002/

Administrators refused recognition / pulled certification petition in order to maintain student worker collective bargaining protections at other universities

universitywide wall-to-wall unit of graduate teaching and research assistants

https://www.bc.edu/bc-web/bcnews/campus-community/announcements/graduate-student-union-vote.html

Administrators refused recognition / pulled certification petition in order to maintain student worker collective bargaining protections at other universities / disaffiliated from AFT

universitywide wall-to-wall unit of graduate teaching and research assistants

https://provost.uchicago.edu/announcements/results-graduate-student-union-election

Administrators refused recognition / pulled certification petition in order to maintain student worker collective bargaining protections at other universities

Micro-unit elections for 9 Departments: History of Art, History, English, Mathematics, Sociology, Geology & Geophysics, Political Science, East Asian Languages, and Physics. All units were union wins except for Physics (a unit of 63 workers).

https://myemail.constantcontact.com/July-2017-E-Note--News--Updates--and-Analysis.html?soid=1102372137664&aid=XmAgx2SmRIk#A8

Teaching and Research Assistants, Post-docs, Research Professionals and Adjunct Faculty in single unit

https://myemail.constantcontact.com/June-2017-E-Note--News--Updates--and-Analysis.html?soid=1102372137664&aid=N15-zgR89k8#A17

universitywide wall-to-wall unit of graduate teaching and research assistants

https://myemail.constantcontact.com/April-2017-E-Note--News--Updates--and-Analysis.html?soid=1102372137664&aid=6CSiwhOaBQQ#B10

This was a highly undemocratic election. There were 174 challenged ballots, as the university and the union could not agree on voting eligibility of students with outside grants, MA students, and others

Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, PhD students working as teaching assistants and research assistants

https://myemail.constantcontact.com/November-2017-E-Note--News--Updates--and-Analysis.html?soid=1102372137664&aid=EaFyOARYEII#A6

universitywide wall-to-wall unit of adjunct part-time faculty

https://myemail.constantcontact.com/National-Center-January-2017-E-Note.html?soid=1102372137664&aid=cc0KdPKmzBk#N7

universitywide wall-to-wall unit of adjunct part-time and full-time faculty

https://myemail.constantcontact.com/December-2017-E-Note--News--Updates--and-Analysis.html?soid=1102372137664&aid=sJM9OnDFXLY#B9

Fort Lauderdale, FL

universitywide wall-to-wall unit of adjunct part-time faculty

https://myemail.constantcontact.com/December-2017-E-Note--News--Updates--and-Analysis.html?soid=1102372137664&aid=sJM9OnDFXLY#B9

universitywide wall-to-wall unit of postdocs and research scientists

https://myemail.constantcontact.com/October-2018-E-Note--News--Updates--and-Analysis.html?soid=1102372137664&aid=mKPEQKrNF2g#C6

universitywide wall-to-wall unit of all faculty.

https://myemail.constantcontact.com/July-2018-E-Note--News--Updates--and-Analysis.html?soid=1102372137664&aid=UbQFCkPhiHI#B2

State College, PA

universitywide wall-to-wall unit of teaching assistants, research assistants, and graduate assistants

https://www.inquirer.com/philly/news/penn-state-graduate-student-union-vote-20180424.html

universitywide wall-to-wall unit of adjunct part-time faculty

https://myemail.constantcontact.com/March-2018-E-Note--News--Updates--and-Analysis.html?soid=1102372137664&aid=BxDKteocHdE#A8

universitywide wall-to-wall unit of graduate teaching and research assistants

http://www.thehoya.com/hundreds-vote-graduate-union-election/ ////// https://myemail.constantcontact.com/November-2018-E-Note--News--Updates--and-Analysis.html?soid=1102372137664&aid=GHG3jQ4_3hM#R6

Seattle Metro, WA

universitywide wall-to-wall unit of postdocs

https://uaw.org/university-washington-postdocs-official-union/

Administrators refused recognition / pulled certification petition in order to maintain student worker collective bargaining protections at other universities / still has a contract for a smaller bargaining unit of dining service undergrad workers

universitywide wall-to-wall unit of all undergraduate workers, excluding dining services (~200 workers) already under union contract

http://www.thesandb.com/news/ugsdw-wins-election-to-expand-union.html

universitywide wall-to-wall unit of graduate teaching and research assistants

https://www.brown.edu/news/2018-11-19/unionization

Bargaining unit is now 4,500 workers

wall-to-wall unit of teaching assistants (graduate and undergraduate) and research assistants (graduate only)

https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2018/5/23/march-to-unionization/

wall-to-wall statewide unit of academic researchers at Berkeley, Davis, Irvine, Los Angeles, Merced, Riverside, San Diego, San Francisco, Santa Barbara, Santa Cruz campuses

https://www.dailycal.org/2018/11/28/uc-academic-researchers-choose-union-representative/

Miami-Dade County, FL

universitywide wall-to-wall unit of adjunct part-time faculty

https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/education/article228492714.html

universitywide wall-to-wall unit of adjunct part-time and full-time faculty

https://myemail.constantcontact.com/December-2017-E-Note--News--Updates--and-Analysis.html?soid=1102372137664&aid=sJM9OnDFXLY#B9

This was a highly undemocratic election where the administration was found guilty of illegal intimidation but remains mired in a legal appeals process.

universitywide wall-to-wall unit of graduate teaching and research assistants

https://triblive.com/local/pittsburgh-allegheny/pitt-graduate-student-workers-union-vote-ruled-inconclusive/

universitywide wall-to-wall unit of two bargaining units: full-time (tenured, tenure track and non-tenure track) faculty and part-time faculty, excluding medical faculty across Albuquerque, Gallup, Taos, Los Alamos, and Valencia County campuses.

https://www.kunm.org/post/full-time-and-temporary-unm-faculty-unionize

statewide wall-to-wall unit of graduate and undergraduate academic student researchers at Berkeley, Davis, Irvine, Los Angeles, Merced, Riverside, San Diego, Santa Barbara, Santa Cruz campuses and Lawrence Berkeley National Lab

https://www.freep.com/story/money/cars/2021/05/24/student-researchers-united-uaw-uc/5238888001/

universitywide wall-to-wall unit of clerical and technical staff

https://myemail.constantcontact.com/June-2021-Newsletter--News--Analysis--and-Updates.html?soid=1102372137664&aid=eGTOKoSWEKk

universitywide wall-to-wall unit of exempt staff employees

https://myemail.constantcontact.com/June-2021-Newsletter--News--Analysis--and-Updates.html?soid=1102372137664&aid=eGTOKoSWEKk

universitywide wall-to-wall unit of adjunct part-time faculty

https://myemail.constantcontact.com/June-2021-Newsletter--News--Analysis--and-Updates.html?soid=1102372137664&aid=eGTOKoSWEKk

Keene, NH; Culver City, CA; Santa Barbara, CA; Yellow Springs, OH

universitywide wall-to-wall unit of adjunct part-time and full-time faculty, aside from Seattle, WA campus

https://www.nlrb.gov/case/19-RC-284405

West, East, Midwest

universitywide wall-to-wall unit of all faculty, excluding School of Medicine faculty

https://pittnews.com/article/167927/featured/pitt-faculty-vote-to-form-union-by-wide-margin/

Albuquerque, NM

universitywide wall-to-wall unit of graduate teaching and research assistants

https://sourcenm.com/2021/12/20/graduate-workers-win-union-in-card-count/

universitywide wall-to-wall unit of graduate teaching and research assistants

https://www.ueunion.org/ue-news/2021/thousands-of-new-mexico-graduate-employees-organizing-with-ue

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

universitywide wall-to-wall unit of graduate teaching and research assistants, excluding fellows

https://thetech.com/2022/04/08/grad-students-unionize

universitywide wall-to-wall unit of all faculty

https://www.abc27.com/news/local/harrisburg/majority-of-hacc-faculty-votes-yes-to-forming-union/

Second election to expand the dining workers union to all undergrad student workers, this time adminstrators pledged to bargain with the union following the election.

universitywide wall-to-wall unit of all undergraduate workers, excluding dining services (~200 workers) already under union contract

http://www.thesandb.com/news/ugsdw-wins-election-to-expand-union.html

University of Massachusetts Medical Center

Medical interns and residents

https://www.telegram.com/story/news/2021/03/30/union-resident-fellow-physicians-certified-umass-med-school/7061671002/

Medical interns and residents

https://www.workers.org/2022/04/63666/

Medical interns and residents

https://www.cirseiu.org/frontline-stanford-doctors-overwhelmingly-win-union-vote/

Seattle Metro, WA

The university administration also challenged the eligibility of 206 votes.

universitywide wall-to-wall unit of research scientists and engineers

https://www.thestand.org/2022/06/thrilled-uw-researchers-vote-union-yes/

full-time and part-time contingent faculty

https://www.seiu1021.org/article/after-five-year-campaign-adjunct-faculty-and-lecturers-santa-clara-university-win-their

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

https://sinaipostdocunion.org/vote-release/

https://www.seiu509.org/boston-university-graduate-workers-win-a-landslide-union-election-with-seiu-local-509/

https://local33.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Local-33-Victory-Press-Release-2.pdf

https://news.northwestern.edu/stories/2023/01/northwestern-graduate-students-vote-to-unionize/

https://hub.jhu.edu/2023/02/01/hopkins-phd-student-unionization-vote/

https://www.gswoc-usc.org/2023/02/17/we-voted-union-yes/

universitywide wall-to-wall unit of graduate teaching and research assistants

https://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2023/03/20/chicago-will-%E2%80%98bargain-good-faith%E2%80%99-after-grad-workers-vote-unionize

Methodology for inclusion: A campaign between 1980-2021, where a union certification election or card check certification occurred, with over 300 workers, with data on bargaining unit size and voting publicly available.

Data created and maintained by WashU Undergraduate & Graduate Workers Union, last updated 4/6/2022. Email wugwu1@gmail.com with updates, corrections, complaints, or praises. Please cite us when using this data.

AAUP = American Association of University Professors

AFLOC = Adjunct Faculty and Lecturer Organizing Committee

AFT = American Federation of Teachers

AUGWU = American University Graduate Workers Union

BCGEU = Boston College Graduate Employees Union

BUGWU = Boston University Graduate Workers United

CASE = Cornell Association of Student Employees

COGS = Campaign to Organize Graduate Employees

CWA = Communications Workers of America