American Association of University Professors - Collective Bargaining

Collective Bargaining

In 2009 AAUP began its reorganization to formally separate the previously muddied relationship between its think tank, its lobbying in non-organized chapters (called Advocacy), and its support for Collective Bargaining Chapters. AAUP currently represents approximately 70 affiliates across the United States in such institutions as University of Connecticut, Portland State University, University of Alaska, the California State University system, Rutgers, University of Oregon, Eastern Michigan University, University of Illinois Chicago, University of Rhode Island, State University of New York, and many others in both the public and private sector, as well as a large number of affiliate organizations where affiliation is shared with other labor unions, the most common dual affiliation being with the American Federation of Teachers (AFT).

Unlike the American Federation of Teachers and other more traditional labor unions, AAUP is not a servicing parent organization; all of its affiliates (at least those that are not affiliated with any other labor union) are independent organizations that completely provide for all their own services, such as staff, attorneys, consultants and organizers. Further, the AAUP does not have the power of receivership in its constitution, so it can not take over any of its affiliates, supplant any of its elected leaders, nor dictate policy or bargaining proposals or agenda upon them.