CUNY Adjuncts Don Turkey Costumes to Protest Treatment
On the same day The New York Times printed an article with national scope about the decline of tenured professors in colleges across America, the union that represents CUNY employees staged a second installment of their “Campaign of Outrage” regarding the short changing of adjunct professor pay. Complete with turkey costumes and turkey whistles, they attempted to deliver a Thanksgiving turkey to Baruch President Kathleen Waldron, who was not available to accept it. “Adjuncts” can hold various positions within a university, but the key piece of information is that they are part-time contracted employees. They are hired for a specific […]