University of Minnesota effort to unionize fails
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Architectural photographer and University of Minnesota adjunct faculty Christian Korab was in the middle of construction at his Twin Cities-area home studio in 2015 when he heard a knock at the door.
Hammer in hand, he found two faculty union organizers on his doorstep. They asked if he would be interested in talking about unionization, and the conversation lasted an hour.
"They didn't need much to get me going," he told The Minnesota Daily . "I was quite receptive to the idea."
Professors, lecturers, teaching specialists and instructors, among other employees, joined the most recent university faculty unionization effort following conversations like these.