Unionization will lead to higher tuition and adversely affect undergraduate students. To suggest that improvements in our compensation must come directly out of undergraduates' pockets is to ignore the complexity and scale of Temple's budget. Collective bargaining will give us a say in the allocation of university resources. Unionization will place unwelcome financial burdens on academics because of high dues. The local union democratically establishes the base dues and the elected delegates from the local union participate in the establishment of the national union's dues.
Unions are unprofessional.
They may be appropriate for workers in other industries, but do not belong within a community of scholars. Representing more than 125,000 faculty, academic professionals, and graduate employees organized into over 225 autonomous locals, the AFT is the leading voice in shaping public policy on higher education and in establishing a compelling vision of professionalism and collegiality in an increasingly bureaucratic university environment. And university faculty and academic employees are not the only professionals in the labor movement. In fact, while only one in four adults holds a bachelor's degree in the United States, more than one in three members of AFL-CIO unions are college graduates. Site design and HTML coding by Cal .