Valencia College adjuncts vote to form a union after years-long push

After five years of organizing at Florida’s second-largest state college, adjunct faculty at Valencia College have successfully formed a union.

The election held by Florida’s Public Employees Relation Commission closed on Wednesday and a vote count confirmed the faculty wished to unionize. With this, adjunct professors at Valencia join more than 10,000 adjunct faculty in the Florida College System who have either successfully unionized or are on the path to union representation, according to a press release released by the Service Employees International Union-Florida Public Services Union (SEIU FPSU).

In just five years, half of Florida’s adjunct professors—who are classified as part-time instructors—have either filed for or formed a union, according to SEIU-FPSU, which represents about 60,000 adjunct faculty nationwide.

“I am so excited for this win today!” said Teresa Greene, an adjunct professor of psychology, in a Wednesday press release about the union victory.

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