Antioch University Faculty Union

💫 Bargaining Updates

June 2, 2026 Update:

Our Fellow Antioch Faculty Union Members,

Bargaining our next contract with the administration is heating up! Our Bargaining Action Team (BAT) has had four sessions with the administration, including extensive, lengthy sessions last Friday and this past Monday. BAT members continue as our elected representatives, advocating our priorities around what we do and our value. 

The Bargaining Team provided an update to the faculty union membership during our June monthly meeting yesterday (June 1), and will continue to provide updates to the membership at every monthly union meeting (these meetings take place on the first Monday of each month at 3:30 p.m. ET/2:30 p.m. CT/1:30 p.m MT/12:30 p.m. PT. Find July’s monthly meeting registration link here: https://www.seiu925.org/antioch-union/

Antioch’s new management team and their attorneys are refreshingly collaborative in tone. They are more candid about the university’s fiscal realities. The transparency is appreciated. 

To date, BAT has put across proposals on the Collective Bargaining Agreement (“contract”), Two Letters of Agreement and an MOU. These proposals cover the following: 

1. Greater equity for affiliate and adjunct faculty and compensation for course revisions in the move to one calendar;
2. Our Faculty Union Rights; 
3. Faculty benefits, like the need for greater access to health care coverage; 
4. Grievances that get timely resolution;
5. Bargaining unit membership;
6. Processes around layoffs (a NEW article that doesn’t currently exist in our contract);
7. Workloads and actually having what we do accounted for and credited;
8. Compensation including base salary increases, cost of living adjustments, and a scale that provides steps to move up over time.

Proposals still to come from our BAT Team include: faculty classifications, including processes for promotion like moving from teaching to core faculty.

The administration’s proposals so far: Faculty need to work more.

We all need to work together to help make our faculty union solidarity visible. The Contract Action Team (CAT) has created a few ways to help you achieve this goal right now!

• Add this image to your email signature and be sure to insert the URL to our union page so people can click to learn more (click here for directions):
   
• When you meet on Zoom with colleagues and/or administrators, use this background: https://www.seiu925.org/2026antioch/
• Keep up-to-date on the bargaining process and related actions by using our new Antioch Faculty Union website: https://www.seiu925.org/antioch-union/
• Encourage your colleagues to join our union!

It’s really important to be union-visible during the bargaining campaign, and especially in advance of the President’s Town Hall event on June 18th.

We are stronger together and there are hundreds of us. Let’s let them hear our collective voices and see our shared solidarity!

Your Faculty Union Bargaining Team and Contract Action Team

May 19, 2026 Update:

Dear Antioch Faculty Colleagues, Our Fellow Union Members,

Today our Antioch Faculty Union’s Bargaining Team had its second meeting with Administration. 

We heard about the institution’s dire financial circumstances. The last decade or more of long-term financial challenges have been met by short-term solutions–one time funds and bailouts–and now we’re out of those. A decade without philanthropy and our CCG partnership not panning out as well or as quickly as hoped means we’re in a hole. This is a crucial, pivotal moment for Antioch University. We agree.

The candor and transparency about how we got where we are financially was refreshing. We are in agreement about this problem. However, the signals telegraphed by administration point to potential increases in workload and possible further layoffs. These are not approaches we agree on. 

Our Faculty Union Bargaining Team, following the priorities of our faculty membership, put forward a proposal that makes our workload more transparent and accounts for work we all do every day that is often invisible or unaccounted for in our official workload. We must get credit for our many and varied contributions. 

Additionally, your Bargaining Team was ready with a proposal seeking greater transparency, equity, and, frankly, humanity, when it comes to “separations” of faculty from the university. From layoffs to non-renewals, to course cancellations and phased retirement, greater clarity and decency in how faculty are treated are fundamental.  

We are ready to engage in a collaborative approach. We value the candor of conversation. We appreciate the complex financial bind created over more than a decade that must now be addressed. We are part of a community and want to be part of the solutions. 

The community has more than a financial problem, though–and our Faculty Union is committed to addressing the values and processes that create and preserve teaching and learning conditions of dignity and respect for ourselves and our students–as well as financial viability.

We want to stay aligned with our faculty’s priorities and make sure faculty are engaged in order for our team to have strength at the table. Join us for the union meeting on June 1 — keep an eye out for the email with the link to join. We’ll get input and talk about how we stay strong and show solidarity.

In Unity,

Your Union Bargaining Team 

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• 📅 Date: Monday, July 6, 2026
• 🕧 Time: 12:30 p.m. PT / 3:30 p.m ET
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