Minnesota Adjuncts Move Toward Unionizing
Adjunct faculty members at Macalester College have taken the first formal step to form a union, joining a national movement to organize the growing number of temporary instructors in college classrooms. On Thursday, campus organizers filed a petition with the National Labor Relations Board to hold a union election for temporary faculty members at the St. Paul college. At the same time, adjuncts at nearby Hamline University announced that they plan to file a similar petition Friday morning. They’re the first two groups to sign on to an organizing drive, spreading across Twin Cities campuses, aimed at wringing higher pay and better […]
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