They needed a union at the University of San Francisco

This short video is a delicious accouint of labor history at the University of San Francisco, too good not to share.

As her many friends know, Erudite Partner -- that's Rebecca Gordon -- has worked all this year agitating, organizing, and bargaining alongside her comrades in the Part Time Faculty Association. And, at long last, they have accomplished a tentative contract agreement with the administration, subject to ratification by the union membership. Congratulations to them all!

Meanwhile, their allies in the Full Time Faculty Association -- that's the tenured and tenure-track professors -- have made this charming historical account their own organizing struggle back in the day. It will be little surprise that it required a vote to strike to get the University bosses to give these professors the kind of pay bump all the other unionized workforce had won. 

May the PTFA follow in their footsteps -- this good contract is only a temporary victory.