Roughly 200 non-tenure-track faculty at the University of San Diego began a two-day unfair labor practice strike on Wednesday to express concerns about what they say are union-busting and mass course cancellations.
The strike involved faculty in USD’s College of Arts and Sciences, one of the largest programs at the private Catholic university in San Diego’s Linda Vista neighborhood. The faculty, of SEIU Local 721, began picketing near the school’s main entrance at 7 a.m., in an action scheduled to last through Thursday.
In a statement, the union said that “faculty will speak out against USD’s unilateral decision to cut courses that affected union in the current spring semester without bargaining over the effects — an illegal move that prompted the instructors to file a ULP charge with the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB).”
A university spokesman told The San Diego Union-Tribune that the strike was not disrupting classes for USD and its more than 9,700 students.
