adjunct activism

After Bargaining for 18 Months, Ithaca Part-Timers Vote to Strike

The Ithaca College Contingent Faculty union voted at 88 percent to authorize a strike after 18 months of bargaining have failed to yield desired results. In a news release, the union states, "The strike vote comes after months of escalation in the contingent faculty’s struggle for...

#AdjunctActivism: Thanksgiving Food Drives for Adjuncts

This wonderful idea for #adjunctactivism is from our friends at A is for Adjunct. In keeping with this season of tricks and treats, let’s take a look at which of the.

Rutgers Part-Time Lecturers Settle Contract Dispute

Rutgers University’s nearly 1,000 part-time lecturers have approved a new four-year contract with the university. The Rutgers Council of the American Association of University Professors, which represents the lecturers, said.

Boondoggle in California

by P.D. Lesko IN NOVEMBER OF 2001, a San Francisco part-time faculty activist, Margaret Quan, sent me an e-mail. She wrote that during the previous month she’d attended a BayFac (college in the California Bay area) union meeting, and “The main topic for discussion was...

Harper College Adjuncts Hold Union Vote

HARPER COLLEGE’S NEARLY 500 part-time faculty members will hold an organizational vote in March, with two unions vying to represent them. The part-time faculty members are being courted by both.

Adjunct Activists in the Sciences: Missing in Action

by Christopher Cumo Science may be remarkable not for Superstring Theory or gene splicing but for the obliviousness of academics in the sciences to the rise of casual labor in.

Allan Hancock Part-Timers Vote for Union Representation

by D. J. Brasket AFTER MORE THAN two years of struggle, part-time faculty instructors at Allan Hancock College, in California, won union representation by an overwhelming majority. Of the 315 part-timers who voted, 84 percent supported representation by the Communication Workers of America (CWA). Although part-timers began...

adjunct activism

After Bargaining for 18 Months, Ithaca Part-Timers Vote to Strike

#AdjunctActivism: Thanksgiving Food Drives for Adjuncts

Rutgers Part-Time Lecturers Settle Contract Dispute

Boondoggle in California

Harper College Adjuncts Hold Union Vote

Adjunct Activists in the Sciences: Missing in Action

Allan Hancock Part-Timers Vote for Union Representation

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