Tells the story of the nation’s largest higher education union from its earliest years to its role today as a powerful organization promoting the interests of faculty, staff, and the entire SUNY community.
Public education, from pre-K through higher education, and labor unions, particularly those representing public sector workers, are today under attack from those who question the very need to have such basic institutions. United University Professions is a history of United University Professions (UUP), which grew from humble beginnings to become the nation’s largest higher education union, representing some 35, 000 academic and professional staff within the State University of New York (SUNY) system. Nuala Mc Gann Drescher, William E. Scheuerman, and Ivan D. Steen chronicle how UUP built upon its early accomplishments at the bargaining table and in the political arena to become a national leader in the struggle to preserve academic freedom and the institution of tenure, the bedrock of academic freedom. More broadly, they argue, UUP in microcosm confirms the importance of unionization not only for the members it represents, but to core American values and American democracy itself.
Table of Content
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. The State University of New York Prior to Unionization
2. The Right to Bargain Collectively, 1967–73
3. The Emergence of United University Professions, 1973–81
4. Organizational Structure, Internal Disagreement, Innovation, and Growth, 1981–87
5. Expanding the Role of UUP, 1987–93
6. UUP Matures: Part I, 1993–2001
7. UUP Matures: Part II, 2001–2007
8. New Challenges and Future Prospects
Note on Sources
Notes
Index
About the author
William E. Scheuerman is Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the State University of New York at Oswego. Prior to retiring as President of the National Labor College, he served as President of the United University Professions, the faculty and staff union at SUNY. He is currently Treasurer of the American Labor Studies Center. Scheuerman has authored several books, including United University Professions: Pioneering in Higher Education Unionism (with Nuala Mc Gann Drescher and Ivan D. Steen), also published by SUNY Press.
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