
Pasadena ArtCenter College of Design Faculty Unionize, Joining AFT/CFT
The faculty of the Pasadena ArtCenter College of Design earlier this month voted to join AFT/CFT, the California branch of the American Federation of Teachers, which is affiliated with the AFL-CIO (American Federation of Labor and Congress of Organizations, the largest federation of unions in the United States. The college’s seven hundred full- and part-time faculty members cast their ballots via mail: These were counted on June 21, with sixty percent in favor of unionizing.
The unionization arrived after two years of sustained campaigning by faculty, which was met by the administration with