Adjunct professors at Bentley University in Waltham yesterday voted by a more than a 2-to-1 margin to unionize, marking the third such faculty victory in as many weeks at a local university.
The 108-to-42 vote brings to nearly 3,000 the total number of Boston area adjuncts and lecturers who have joined the Service Employees International Union in a growing national movement to improve the lot of the university employees, who often work for poverty-level wages.
"There's a groundswell of support on campuses here and across the country for unionization as one step toward addressing a crisis in higher education," said Jason Stephany, a spokesman for SEIU Local 509.
This month alone, Bentley and Boston University adjuncts and full-time Tufts University lecturers all voted to unionize in the wake of similar votes over the past 17 months among part-time lecturers at Tufts and adjuncts at Lesley and Northeastern universities.
Although he has a Ph.D. in history, Doug Kierdorf, 67, was living on food stamps and the $5,000 he was earning per semester, teaching the only course available to him at Bentley University until the class was canceled last month.
And he's not alone in his predicament. Adjuncts make up 76.4 percent of faculty at U.S. colleges and universities, according to a 2014 report by the American Association of University Professors. And a U.S. House of Representatives study the same year showed many had wages below the federal poverty line.
In a statement yesterday, Bentley University said: "While Bentley has consistently stated its belief that having a union is not in the best interest of the faculty or the university, the university will, of course, bargain in good faith."
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