We Are USC Adjunct Faculty Alliance – UAW

As USC adjunct faculty in the School of Cinematic Arts, we are coming together to bargain collectively with the University of Southern California and build our political voice as educators whose work sustains this institution.

We are joining the tens of thousands of academic workers at UC, USC, and across the US who are seeking to secure a better future through collective bargaining as part of the UAW. We also join a growing movement of adjunct faculty at private institutions like Barnard, NYU, The New School, Boston University, Tufts, and Fordham, who have organized strong unions and negotiated meaningful improvements to salary, benefits, and working conditions.

Without collective bargaining, we have experienced stagnant salaries, increasing workloads, vanishing benefits, threats to job security, and a lack of transparency in administrative policies. If our benefits and working conditions are secured in a collective bargaining agreement, USC cannot change the terms of our employment without our consent. As employees across SCA, we are forming a union in order to improve our working conditions and to make the university a more equitable and accessible institution for teaching, research, and learning.