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Support Santa Clara University's Adjuncts and Lecturers as they organize their union!

Santa Clara University adjuncts and lecturers are organizing! And they're meeting stiff resistance from the administration of SCU.

They need your support -- sign this petition:

https://seiu1021.good.do/SCUReverseVote/reversevote/

Share this link with your colleagues and friends.

Here's a message from the union organizers:

In our last email to you, we sent an update that Father Engh had denied Santa Clara University faculty's request to hold an in-house, neutral-party vote on unionization. Fall quarter at SCU just started, and faculty are already showing that they are not ok with the administration's decision. This week, adjuncts, lecturers, and tenure-stream allies convened for a delegation to deliver a letter to Father Engh formally asking him to reverse his decision.

SCU faculty are reiterating their call for the administration to partner with adjunct faculty and lecturers to conduct a union vote, and they still need your support! Please join us in telling SCU's administration to reverse their decision and support a fair vote on unionization by signing this email petition and sending it out to your networks.

https://seiu1021.good.do/SCUReverseVote/reversevote/

Feel free to use the following blurb when sharing the petition:

"Join us in supporting Santa Clara University faculty as they reiterate their call for the administration to allow them to freely and fairly vote on unionization! Please tell SCU to do the right thing by signing this email petition.

https://seiu1021.good.do/SCUReverseVote/reversevote/

You can also follow along on the Facebook and website:

• facebook.com/scufacultyunited

• scufacultyunited.org

Thank you for your continued support!

In solidarity,

[organizers for SCU Faculty United]

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Email Petition letter sent October 2018 to SCU President Michael Engh, S.J.:

Dear Father Engh and Chairman Sobrato,

I write to you from a fellow Jesuit institution, the University of San Francisco, on behalf of the members of the USF Part-Time Faculty Association (USF-PTFA).

The USF-PTFA strongly supports adjunct faculty and lecturers at Santa Clara University in their efforts to form a union, to better their working conditions and to better serve their students.

We were disappointed when Santa Clara University's administration denied faculty’s call to hold a fair and free vote on unionization.

At the heart of Catholic social justice teaching since the 1891 publication of Pope Leo XIII’s Rerum novarum, has been the right of workers to form unions. Unfortunately, workers attempting to unionize have sometimes been confronted with interference, hostility, and retaliation when upholding their right to unionize. This was the case at USF when full time faculty organized in 1976 and when adjunct faculty organized in 1983. For years, open hostility marked the interactions between the university and the unions. In the past two decades, that relationship has grown to one where unions and administration work together for the mutual benefit of the institution and communities of USF.

Our President, Paul J. Fitzgerald, SJ, has spoken positively of the participation by faculty unions in the governance of USF, and how the relationship reflects the values of Catholic, Jesuit social justice teachings.

Father Engh and Chairman Sobrato, on behalf of the 650 members of the USF Part-Time Faculty Association, we urge you to reverse your previous decision and respect your faculty’s request to hold a union vote, without interference, at Santa Clara University.

Regards,

John Higgins

President, USF Part-Time Faculty Association