The benefit was an important victory adjuncts won when they hammered out their first-ever contract with the university last spring. Eligible adjuncts enrolled from Nov. 11 to 30, and many adjuncts are calling it a huge step forward in implementing other contract provisions, which included...
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In the wake of last fall’s bitter, three-week strike, administrators at the City Colleges of Chicago are moving to fire as many as 140 part-time and emeritus faculty members who.
Everyone Makes Mistakes I thumbed through the gratis copy of your magazine I just received, and I do hope that writer James Ottavio Castagnera (“Everybody Lies,” Adjunct Advocate, January/February 2005).
Part-time and other temporary faculty members at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville have voted 78 to 31 for the Illinois Education Association to represent them. The result was announced in late-October after two days of balloting. The election makes the IEA the bargaining agent for the...
Chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee found favor with part-time teachers in the state-aided colleges across Bengal when the government decided to take up a proposal to enhance their pay despite a.
Part-time lecturers in Korea belong to the low-income sector and their welfare status is worrisome, lawmakers recently said, citing data provided during October’s National Assembly inspection hearings. At a session.
“Big Tent” Organizing in Canada I was pleased to see the article on Canadian organizing and the “big tent” strategy in the latest issue of the magazine (“In Canada, the Success of the Higher-Education Labor Movement Lies in ‘Big Tent’ Organizing,” Adjunct Advocate November-December 2004)....
Waiting for the Green I teach at a community college in Iowa. At the end of the Winter Term last year, someone got the idea that we adjuncts could go.
A Lawrence, Kansas legislator has a proposal to provide health insurance benefits to adjunct professors who teach a full academic load at state universities. Representative Tom Sloan, a Republican and.
More than three years after filing an unfair practice charge against UC Davis, former UC Davis lecturers are seeing progress in their fight against the university’s plan to “re-balance” the number of research faculty and lecturers on campus. An administrative law judge with the state’s...
