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United University Professions: Pioneering in Higher Education Unionism

United University Professions: Pioneering in Higher Education Unionism

Drescher, Nuala McGann
Scheuerman, William E.
Steen, Ivan D.

Paperback

LaborGeneral EducationSocial Movements

ISBN10: 1438474687
ISBN13: 9781438474687
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: Jun 1 2019
Pages: 324
Weight: 1.00
Height: 0.90 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

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 McGann 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.

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