Labor Struggle in Higher Ed: An Update from Loyola University Chicago SEIU 73 Faculty Forward Union

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🗓️ 15 April 2026

⏱️ 118 minutes

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Members of the leadership team of the SEIU 73 Faculty Forward Union representing non-tenure-track faculty in the College of Arts and Sciences at Loyola University Chicago update us on their 14-month-old fight for a fair contract. NTT faculty Matt Williams, Paige Warren, Sarita Heer, and Deb Goodman discuss the precarity and exploitation facing faculty at Loyola and on campuses across the United States and the union's efforts to bargain collectively at a corporatized university. We will follow up with them next Tuesday after strike authorization votes have been tallied. "The Moment of Truth" with Jeff Dorchen follows the interview. You can follow their struggle at the SEIU 73 website: https://seiu73.org/updates/loyola-university-updates/ and in the Loyola Phoenix's ongoing coverage: https://loyolaphoenix.com/2026/04/faculty-shares-grievances-with-new-administrative-policies/ Help keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thisishell Please rate and review This Is Hell! wherever you get your podcasts. It really helps the show ascend the algorithm to reach new listeners.

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0:00.0	The President
0:02.0	The Waterloo
0:04.0	The Waters
0:06.0	Big attack!
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0:23.6	Take a gun!
0:25.6	Biggie there! This is hell.
0:47.1	Live from the United States, where capitalism is the virus.
0:52.3	This is hell, triumphant capital capitalists and the free press they bought and paid for
0:59.3	convinced post-Cold War post-Soviet America that if only everything was run like a business,
1:05.9	as it should be now that capitalism crushed communism, then the world would be a far better place for everyone.
1:13.3	Raising all boats with supply and demand,
1:15.4	working harmoniously in hand,
1:18.1	so we all benefit from cost efficiency
1:21.2	and the best of everything,
1:22.6	all due to competition
1:23.9	and the freedom of the newly globalized free market.
1:28.2	Everything we were told would be better if it was just run like a freaking business.
1:35.0	Even the government, the public sector, the public space, would be better if it was run
1:39.9	like a business, we were being told. Same thing with the government itself, run it like a business,
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