More than 100 Wellesley non-tenure track faculty are on strike

The small liberal arts college is calling for a mediator, but the union wants Wellesley "to show up more often at the bargaining table and justify their positions."



By Molly Farrar

April 7, 2025
3 minutes to read

More than 100 educators at Wellesley College are striking, causing credit confusion for students while the college is calling on the union to sit down with a mediator.

The union voted to authorize their strike to begin on March 27 after nearly a year of failed bargaining. Now, it says the administration has been “surface bargaining.”

Non-tenure track faculty at the small liberal arts college initially voted to unionize as the Wellesley Organized Academic Workers, or WOAW with the United Auto Workers, in January of last year.

Annie Brubaker, a senior lecturer at Wellesley and a member of the WOAW organizing committee, said the union is bargaining for job security, increased compensation, and a four-course workload.

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