“What good do faculty unions do?” That?s the headline from a recent Chronicle of Higher Education article, which notes: “Many union leaders have declared the right to collectively bargain essential if faculty members are to be paid adequately, treated fairly, and given a voice in their institutions? affairs.”
But, the article continues, “the research that tests such assertions offers mixed findings. At most private colleges, as well as at public colleges where faculty members have chosen not to form unions or have been precluded from doing so by state law, many faculty members work without union contracts without feeling particularly exploited.”