American Federation of Teachers

How Campus Equity Week Has Sabotaged Equal Pay for Adjuncts

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 a variety of media (documentaries, books, tabling, protests and social media) to draw attention to the plight of...

Campus Equity Week Is Just Around the Corner: October 28-Nov 2

by P.D. Lesko This brief history of Campus Equity Week comes from long-time adjunct activist Chris Storer: The issues of contingent academic employment in higher education are, we believe, universal..

On Adjunct Activists and Bottom Feeders

by P.D. Lesko AdjunctNation will have been advocating on behalf of the nation's non-tenured faculty for 21 years this September. I am pleased and proud of the work we've done,.

Why Michael Bérubé Needs Adjuncts To Believe They're the Victims of Whim & Bad Luck

by P.D. Lesko I have just read the 2011-2012 AAUP salary survey. While the authors of the survey, Saranna Thorton and John Curtis certainly put thought and effort into their report, it represents yet another damning indictment of the AAUP's failure to push pay parity...

Washington PTers Allege Union Corruption & Cover Up, Ask NEA President For Trusteeship

by P.D. Lesko Who should represent the hundreds of thousands of adjunct faculty members on our nation’s college campuses?….It is true that all three of the major faculty unions (AFT,.

Washington PTers Allege Union Corruption & Cover Up, Ask NEA President For Trusteeship

by P.D. Lesko Who should represent the hundreds of thousands of adjunct faculty members on our nation’s college campuses?….It is true that all three of the major faculty unions (AFT,.

More Colleges Cut Adjunct Hours to Potentially Avoid Health Coverage Under Obamacare

by Sy Mukherjee Four public colleges and universities — Florida’s Palm Beach State College, Pennsylvania’s Community College of Allegheny County, Ohio’s Youngstown State University, and New Jersey’s Kean University — are planning to move adjunct and “contingent” faculty members to part-time status in order to avoid...

FOIAed Police Reports Show Washington Union Leader Impeded Police Investigation of Theft of Union Funds

by P.D. Lesko At Green River Community College, located in a suburb of Seattle, Washington, adjuncts (303) make up the majority of the 443 faculty who teach at the two-year.

Adjunct “Monsters,” “Fast-Food Faculty” and “Nameless Bodies”

by P.D. Lesko With friends like these...I'm sure Mark Miller is a fine, upstanding fellow. He is the president of the Hancock College part-time faculty union, and has been the.

University of Oregon Drops Objections To New Unified Faculty Union

By Stefan Ostrach A new faculty union at the University of Oregon was certified by the Oregon Employment Relations Board on April 27th, shortly after the university’s administration dropped legal objections it had filed against the proposed bargaining unit, which included tenure-related faculty, non-tenure-track faculty,...

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