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PITTSBURGH (AP) — Two groups are working with the United Steelworkers to unionize about 5,000 faculty and nearly 3,000 graduate employees at the University of Pittsburgh. The campus drive by the groups working with the union officially kicked off Tuesday. The union is working to form separate bargaining units within it. Thirty-seven-year-old graduate student and teaching fellow Hillary Lazar says they deserve to be recognized for their contributions to the school. Union spokeswoman Maria Somma tells the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review that at least 30 percent of faculty and graduate employees must be interested in joining before an organizing vote can be held. The university tells the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette it has made "great strides" in large part because of an independent faculty's ability to work with their administrative colleagues.

Steelworkers kick off unionization campaign at university