by P.D. Lesko In 2016, the U.S. EEOC recognized for the first time, in conciliating a wage theft case, that wage theft can represent discrimination based on…
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by P.D. Lesko In total, colleges and universities across the U.S. employ close to five million people. Data from the U.S. Department of Labor show that, to…
by P. D. Lesko For many years, I have made myself unpopular among higher education union leaders for pointing out unions blatantly unequal representation of their adjunct…
by P.D. Lesko College administrators are re-calculating their six-, seven-, eight-, nine- and ten-figure budgets, and battening down the golden hatches on their mega-yachts. There are rumblings…
by P.D. Lesko On January 12, 2020 Robert Reich (@RBReich) Tweeted this observation: "American capitalism in a nutshell: The same day it was announced that Boeing CEO…
by P.D. Lesko Last week was Campus Equity Week (CEW), in case you didn't know. From October 21-25, adjunct faculty and their allies were encouraged to use…
by P.D. Lesko In 2016, researchers Jason Brennan and Phillip Magness published "Estimating the Cost of Justice for Adjuncts: A Case Study in University Business Ethics." In…
by P.D. Lesko Our book reviewer has a copy of Herb Childress's recently published book, The Adjunct Underclass: How America’s Colleges Betrayed Their Faculty, Their Students, and…
by P.D. Lesko The full-time faculty at Wright State University went on strike on Tuesday January 22nd. Adjunct faculty employed by WSU who seek full-time teaching jobs should…
by P.D. Lesko "I don't think that people in power can be convinced by words or articles. They will never give it up by choice."—Nawal El Saadawi,…