PITTSBURGH (AP) - More than 300 part-time professors at Point Park University in Pittsburgh plan to vote on whether to unionize.
The United Steelworkers says its Adjunct Faculty Association got permission from the National Labor Relations Board to hold the mail-in vote sometime in the next 60 days.
The Adjunct Faculty Association organized a similar vote at Duquesne University, another private, liberal arts school in the city and part-time professors there voted to unionize in 2012.
But that school, which is Catholic, has appealed the results of that vote by arguing the school has a faith-based exemption from NLRB jurisdiction.
Union officials say Point Park has 314 adjunct professors.
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