Who Benefits from a Faculty Union During a Pandemic?

This paper examines the effect of unions on instructional staffing at public institutions during the pandemic. Using IPEDS data for 2018-2021, we find that tenured faculty benefited from a union while tenure track and non-tenure track faculty were unaffected.

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Journal of Collective Bargaining in the Academy
Published
2025-03-25
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https://doi.org/10.58188/1941-8043.1924
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COVID-19 and Mental Health
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Who Benefits from a Faculty Union During a Pandemic?

David McClough, Mary Ellen Benedict, John Hoag
Journal of Collective Bargaining in the Academy
COVID-19 and Mental Health
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Who Benefits from a Faculty Union During a Pandemic?

David McClough, Mary Ellen Benedict, John Hoag
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Abstract

This paper examines the effect of unions on instructional staffing at public institutions during the pandemic. Using IPEDS data for 2018-2021, we find that tenured faculty benefited from a union while tenure track and non-tenure track faculty were unaffected.

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