Candidate Profile: Emily Beall

Emily Beall:  All In for UFCT Local 1460

My name is Emily Beall. I’m an Adjunct Assistant Professor w/CCE in the Humanities and

Media Studies department, and I am running for UFCT 1460 President as leader of the All In Slate with officers-elect Audrey Lindsey, Daniel Wright, and Sarah Wilkins. We are committed to building a democratic, supermajority union: these are the unions winning material improvements in working people’s lives – and that are capable of fighting against political and economic threats that seek to divide us from our students and from one another. Together, I believe we can become this kind of union at Pratt – but it’s going to take all of us. That’s why Audrey, Sarah, Daniel and I are all in. I ask for your vote, and for you to go all in with us.

I became active in our union in 2011 as part of a healthcare campaign, because then, as now, contingent faculty’s lives are imperiled by underinsurance and uninsurance. Since 2011, I have consistently taken on leadership roles to improve faculty working conditions:

● Member of Negotiating Committee for the 2011 and 2015 Collective Bargaining

Agreements

● Restarted Union Delegates Assembly 2012–13

● Union Vice President 2014–17, Spring 24–Spring 25, served as President during each of

those terms

● Union Grievance Committee Fall 2016–Fall 2017, Spring 2025

● Assistant Chairperson of Humanities and Media Studies, 2018–2023

I’ve attended workshops on union leadership to build skill, better understand labor struggles in higher education, and learn from others unions’ strategies:

● Organizing for Power, Luxemburg Foundation, 2025

● AAUP Collective Bargaining Congress Summer Institute, 2017 and 2024

● United Association of Labor Educators Summer School for Union Women, 2015

As a leader, I value listening, collaboration, and working together to build community and power. My strengths include building structures that enable members to become leaders – in sustainable, empowering, and rewarding ways. For example, last year, I worked with delegates and members to develop new member orientations, advance bylaws reform, and successfully organize against program cuts. More recently, I worked with delegates and members to form the Health Care Working Group, spreading awareness about the administration’s proposal to raise the cost of our health care in violation of our CBA, and organizing to support the grievance on this issue. I want to continue to advance bylaws reform to expand member power and

enshrine democratic practices for our union, and to foster a healthy, participatory union culture and community.

Looking ahead, the biggest task on the horizon is negotiating a strong contract in 2027. By voting for me, you commit to help bring all faculty into union membership, fill out a bargaining survey and engage in conversations to formulate and determine our demands, and participate in a broad contract campaign that keeps pressure on management while we bargain. It will take work and commitment, but the time to fight is now: when we fight for what we need, we also fight for our students, our communities, and our future.