Bates College Workers to Vote on First-of-Its-Kind Union in January

More than 600 Bates employees will get the chance to vote in early January on whether they want to form a union. If they agree, it would be the first union in a private college in the country to include both educators and staff. In the ruling setting the date of the union vote, National Labor Relations Board Regional Director Laura Sacks said that non-tenured faculty and the rest of the college staff, “share a community of interest sufficient to constitute an appropriate voting group.”