The victory marks the first election of the Faculty Union in Florida and at a public university in the South, with SEIU. More than 13,000 university teachers across the country, who have joined SEIU in the past three years, range from community colleges to universities, which are ranked in the top 10 information rankings of national universities in the United States. Votes for postal voting were counted at the Public Relations Commission in Tallahassee. “The faculty`s teachers like to prepare students for their future; We need job security and fair wages that allow us to use more time to work. My colleagues at the USF today welcome HCC`s victory and the growing union movement in higher education. Their victory is also a victory for me, my family, my students and all tampa colleges and colleges and faculties that unite for change,” said Greg McCreery, a part-time faculty member at the University of South Florida. The HCC election follows a new study that examines the difficulty of an auxiliary teacher in Florida to afford basic needs such as housing, health care and food. The report, called High Cost of Adjunct Living: Florida, found that 46 percent of all faculty members in Florida and nearly 4,600 people in the Tampa area work as part-time college teachers. The average salary per course in the southeastern region of the United States was $1,800 for associative-level courses in public institutions and $2,800 for doctoral courses in private non-profit institutions. This is below the national average, which means that an additional 12 courses per year – an extraordinary but not unusual course load – can have an annual income of only $21,600.

Other results: the human resources department supports the college`s mission and contributes to the college`s overall well-being by providing quality human resources services to current employees, retirees and potential employees. The HCC faculty is the latest to join a fast-growing trade union movement, with more than 50 campuses coming together to deal with a higher education crisis.