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"They're Not Alone": An Oral History of the Pennsylvania Faculty Strike of 2016
- Labor: Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas
- Duke University Press
- Volume 17, Number 3, September 2020
- pp. 8-18
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Abstract:
In 2016, more than five thousand faculty members and coaches in the Association of Pennsylvania State College and University Faculties successfully struck in the union's first ever such action in thirty-five years as an official bargaining agent. Two faculty members active in the union reflect on their experience in a wide-ranging interview about how years of careful, often painstaking organizing made such a success possible. The strike was the product of both ten years of increasingly acrimonious negotiations and considerable tactical work by a new generation of union members who learned a number of lessons from the process, including the necessary work of persuading faculty members that they, too, were workers.