St. John’s University Says It No Longer Recognizes Faculty Unions After 56 Years

St. John's University in Queens, New York, notified employees on Feb. 19 that it will no longer recognize the two unions that have represented faculty members at the Catholic university in collective bargaining since 1970. In an internal email to faculty members, St. John's University leaders said the decision to withdraw recognition of the unions had not been made "lightly or rashly," but that it was done to secure the university's long-term future.