I have served on the Collective Bargaining Committee twice, negotiating labor contracts protecting the non-tenure track faculty in the College of Arts and Sciences. The negotiations with Loyola's administration have often been long and difficult, but ultimately fruitful. We won increased pay and job security for our members, as well as a ground-breaking pathway to full-time positions for our part-time members.

I attend meetings of Labor-Management Committee, where leaders of Faculty Forward and the administration deal with both routine union matters, such as converting part-time or temporary positions to full-time ones, and crises, such as teaching conditions are the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic. As a result of our input, faculty needs and concerns have shaped official policy. Administration members have expressed gratitude to us during these meetings for the valuable insights we give them about the working conditions of faculty.

I am the Shop Steward for a cluster of departments in the social sciences. In this role, I address faculty grievances with the administration and department chairs by gathering information and advocating on behalf of union members.