Mike Cavallaro On Building a Union (and a Community) at NYC’s School of Visual Arts

Late last month, the faculty at New York’s School of Visual Arts formed a union to represent its 1,200 instructors. As reported by The Art Newspaper, the union joins others recently formed at peer institutions and was the result of two years of sustained organizing. Universities are increasingly in the crosshairs of politicians, with art schools particularly vulnerable, and Observer caught up with SVA faculty organizer Mike Cavallaro—who is a comic book writer and artist, in addition to being a teacher—to hear more about the new union.