At many universities adjunct faculty have unionized in recent years, even at schools without faculty unions. At UMass Boston there are plans to replace adjunct faculty with full time tenure track faculty. As the cost of adjunct faculty increases due to union contracts this may be a new trend. On the one hand many say that having more full time faculty is good for students. But it will cost many adjunct faculty their jobs. It will be interesting to see how this plays out at other schools that have recently unionized: Northeastern, Boston University, Tufts, Bentley and McGill to name a few.
http://www.bostonherald.com/news/local_coverage/2016/08/umb_on_edge_as_layoffs_loom
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