In an Oct. 13 statement, the LMU Student Labor and Employment Law Society blasted the administration and board for invoking a religious exemption to stop recognition of our NTT faculty union and called on the administration to return to bargaining.
The letter, signed by Luke Banda, President of the Labor & Employment Law Society on behalf of the LELS Board, says: “[LMU’s] Board of Trustees justified this decision by claiming it serves students’ interests and puts ‘students first.’ Yet LMU students were never asked whether we wanted the university to abandon collective bargaining with faculty. Had students been asked, many may have urged the university to continue good-faith negotiations rather than invoke a legal mechanism to end them. This is not putting ‘students first,’ it is making decisions for students without their input and then invoking their welfare to justify those decisions.”
The letter continues: “As members of the LMU community and as students of labor and employment law, we recognize that faculty working conditions directly affect educational quality across the university. When any faculty members lack job security, fair compensation, and a meaningful voice in their working conditions, the integrity of education suffers.
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