We, the undersigned students, alumni, employees, and community partners of Temple University, believe that adjunct faculty deserve to be treated with dignity and respect, and we stand with them in their organizing effort to join the existing collective bargaining unit for faculty on campus. We pledge to not publicly support or donate money to Temple University until the administration agrees to treat adjuncts with respect and let them vote in a fair, transparent, and timely union election. This includes contributing to Alumni Association or scholarship funds, representing the university at public functions, and other forms of implicit endorsement of the University and its administration.

At the end of the Fall 2014 semester, an overwhelming majority of adjuncts filed authorization cards with the Pennsylvania Labor Relations Board for an election to have a union. Adjuncts would be joining Temple Association of University Professionals (TAUP), the full-time faculty union at Temple. In the intervening months, the University administration has mounted an expensive, lengthy legal process to deny adjuncts the right to vote for union representation.

Adjunct faculty teach more than half the undergraduate courses at Temple University and are a valuable part of the University community. We demand that you and your fellow members of the Board of Trustees stop wasting University resources and halt your legal challenge to the democratic process by allowing adjuncts to hold a union election immediately.

In solidarity,