We are students and alumni of Loyola Marymount University and we support Non-Tenure Track Faculty (NTT Faculty) who are forming their union.

We believe it is wrong that NTT Faculty — who teach most of our courses — have virtually no job security, little opportunity for professional development, and lack a voice in their working conditions. And it is outrageous that a university that charges us tens of thousands of dollars in tuition — which has only increased over time — cannot seem to pay its professors a wage that allows them to live comfortably. In fact, many NTT Faculty are forced to juggle multiple jobs to make a living, making it harder for them to focus on teaching and mentoring LMU students.

NTT Faculty working conditions are student learning conditions, and we pledge to stand with our instructors as they seek to form a union. Together, we will join with them to reclaim our campus and ensure that it refocuses and reinvests in quality instruction, education, mentoring, and meaningful service — the core aspects of LMUʼs mission.

We call on LMU to live up to its Jesuit, Catholic and Marymount values, respect worker rights and dignity, refrain from resisting or interfering in NTT Facultyʼs union campaign and to agree to recognize the NTT Faculty union via a card check process.*

*Card check is a method for employees to organize into a labor union. Employees in a proposed bargaining unit sign cards stating they wish to be represented by a union and the employer agrees to have a neutral individual review the cards.  If the cards, when compared to the employer's list of employees in the proposed bargaining unit, show a majority of employees in the proposed unit wish to be represented by the union in question, the employer agrees to immediately recognize the union without any further election processes.