By Suhauna Hussain, Los Angeles Times

LOS ANGELES — After 10 months of negotiations, Loyola Marymount University abruptly announced it would no longer recognize its faculty union.

The news, delivered in an email to students and employees on Friday, sent shock waves through the union, which represents nearly 400 part-time and full-time educators who do not hold tenure-track positions.

Paul S. Viviano, chairman of the university’s board of trustees, said in the email that the university was ending its engagement with the union by invoking its “constitutionally protected religious exemption” from the jurisdiction of the National Labor Relations Board, which governs collective bargaining for private employers.

“I was floored,” said Maureen Gonzales, 35, who has worked part-time as a dance

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