We voted overwhelmingly to form our Union to establish a meaningful say about what it looks like to be valued by our employer.  We spent months drafting our contract proposals based on hundreds of …

Watch our recent recap from our first bargaining session of the fall last Friday: faculty kicked off the semester by showing up to help send a united message around the value of our work at …

RSVP for Zoom Town Hall August 27th, at 6PM Kick off the fall semester by joining colleagues across departments at an August Virtual Town Hall to hear updates on our campaign, get answers to questions, and …

At our last session, we proposed the vast majority of our economic bargaining demands, including our call for Course Cancellation Fees to be paid to faculty whose planned courses are cancelled. As we continue to …

Click here to share a brief testimonial on how fair compensation would support the critical work we perform at SVA! We’re excited to share that we began discussing economic proposals at Monday’s bargaining session! …

Big news! As we prepare to bargain over economic topics (e.g pay, benefits, and other important economic priorities), a majority of SVA faculty have signed onto our petition urging the school to work with …

At our twelfth bargaining session, we are happy to share we reached tentative agreements on three more articles with the SVA administration: Health and Safety, Academic Freedom, and Union Management Committee. We are also extremely close to being …

Earlier this week, we had our eleventh bargaining session with the SVA administration. Watch Stephanie Stavropoulos (MFA Design for Social Innovation) and Valerie Eads (Humanities & Sciences) walk through a full recap of the session! …

Happy end of semester! On Tuesday we wrapped up a very productive tenth bargaining session with the SVA administration. We made meaningful progress by coming to an agreement on a couple of articles. Here …

Earlier this week, we completed our ninth bargaining session with the SVA administration. Due to difficulties scheduling a time that worked for the administration, this was our first session for over a month. We pressed the SVA administration …