Dive Brief:

• The Service Employees International Union has launched a website aimed at organizing adjunct professors throughout the country.
• SEIU, with 2.1 million members, hopes to reach 1 million professors through the website, adjunctaction.org.
• The union’s organizing campaign for adjuncts is currently established in nine cities. In Washington, D.C., more than half of the adjuncts have either formed unions or filed for union elections.

Dive Insight:

Organizing adjunct professors can be difficult, and the website should make the task easier. Their lack of job security means that sometimes only a few are willing to go out on a limb in unionizing, and “you can’t picket with three people,” an adjunct professor tells Inside Higher Ed. SEIU hopes that its foothold in Washington, where Georgetown University adjuncts are negotiating their first contract, spreads to Boston, Los Angeles, New York, Philadelphia, Seattle, Connecticut, Maryland, the Minneapolis-St. Paul area, the San Francisco Bay area, St. Louis, and Washington state.