Assistant Professor of Advanced Studies, Leadership, and Policy
School of Education and Urban Studies
Morgan State University
Topic: Unions, Limits, and Liberation: Toward a Critical Understanding of the Higher Education Workplace and the Labor Struggles Within
This talk examines how higher education workers understand and engage with their unions, as well as how they organize in response to union limitations. I show how workers both value unions and critique their effectiveness, often turning to grassroots strategies of individual and collective resistance to foster change from within and beyond the union framework. The talk invites participants to reframe higher education not only as an educational site but as a workplace shaped by labor struggles, power relations, and subjugation. Drawing on empirical data, I outline both policy recommendations and grassroots strategies that inch us closer to liberation.