UNIVERSITY OF ST. THOMAS

Labor Union:SEIU LOCAL 284

Voting Unit (Unit A):All part-time non-tenured and non-tenure-track faculty employed by the University of St. Thomas to teach undergraduate-level labs or undergraduate-level credit-earning courses at the St. Paul and Minneapolis campuses located at 2115 Summit Ave., St. Paul, MN 55105 and 1000 LaSalle Ave., Minneapolis, MN 55403. The faculty in the unit include but are not limited to Adjunct Faculty, Senior Adjuncts, Participating Adjuncts, Supporting Adjuncts, and Adjuncts; excluding all other faculty, including tenured and tenure-track faculty; full-time faculty; clinical faculty; limited term faculty; distinguished service faculty; visiting faculty; faculty who are concurrently employed as full-time or tenured or tenure-track faculty by another institution of higher education and are employed by the University with respect to a joint program with another institution of higher education; visiting scholars; music lesson faculty who exclusively teach music lessons; and faculty who exclusively teach: a course or lab not conducted primarily at the University’s Minneapolis or St. Paul campuses, non-degree or non-credit earning courses, graduate-level courses, courses in the School of Law or the St. Paul Seminary School of Divinity, or online courses. Also excluded are all graduate assistants, teaching assistants, deans, associate deans, assistant deans, department chairs, divisional representatives, program chairs, directors, associate directors, administrators, managers, supervisors, coordinators, coaches, librarians, specialists, staff, confidential employees, guards, anyone else excluded by the Act, and all other employees, whether or not they have teaching responsibilities. An employee who is in the bargaining unit scope by virtue of the unit description above, but who also teaches one or more graduate-level courses or has some other responsibilities or appointment(s) with the University, shall be considered a dual function employee, meaning that the employee is a member of the above-described bargaining unit solely for purposes of teaching undergraduate-level labs or undergraduate-level credit-earning courses on the Minneapolis or St. Paul campus, and that only such work falls within the bargaining unit. Any and all responsibilities and/or appointments other than teaching undergraduate-level lab(s) or undergraduate-level credit-earning course(s) on the Minneapolis or St. Paul campus are outside of the above-described bargaining unit. Those eligible to vote in the election are employees in the above unit who were employed and worked within the scope of the unit described above during the payroll period ending May 31, 2014 (which has a payroll date of May 30, 2014), including employees who did not work during that period because they were ill, on vacation, or were temporarily laid off. Also eligible to vote are those in the unit who teach or taught or are contracted by June 6, 2014, to teach at least one undergraduate-level lab or undergraduate-level credit-earning course in the Fall 2013 semester, January 2014 term, the Spring 2014 semester, or the June or July 2014 Summer Sessions