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Serving the Faculty Union in Fighting Austerity Policies

This article reports and analyzes a case of a university labor studies program providing a series of research reports to the faculty union on campus that analyzed the allocation of resources between faculty and administrative overhead. The research helped the union slow down and stop a trend toward ever more resources being diverted from faculty to administration. The decisive role of the research in winning major union victories is detailed, and the case is analyzed with a view to opportunities and dangers involved in such research, what factors make it uniquely effectove or ineffective, and what lessons can be drawn from the experience.