Which of these sentences was spoken by American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten at the recent annual conference of the National Center for the Study of Collective Bargaining? See if you can guess. 1. "Hiring WOMEN isn’t a bad thing, she said, but “we’ve...
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By P.D. Lesko Keith Hoeller and I have known each other for many years. Like me, Keith advocates for part-time faculty. In my case, I do it nationally. Keith has.
[private]by Amy Rolph Faculty at the Art Institute of Seattle voted against taking an unprecedented move to unionize in July. If successful, the move would have been a first for.
by Rosella Eleanor LaFevre The Adjunct Organizing Committee, a group that aims to unionize Temple’s part-time faculty, declared the week of Nov. 16th Adjunct Awareness Week. Members of the committee stood at the Bell Tower around noon every day through Nov. 20th. The AOC has...
Portland State University’s part-time faculty union reached an agreement with the university Friday regarding professor pay, after nine months of salary negotiations and almost a month of mediation. According to.
In California, one part-time faculty has decided to break away from their current union to achieve quality pay, healthcare benefits, and adequate representation on their own. That decision has created.
by Brooke Pielli Bill 5802 should have been on the fast track to passage and signing. Fifteen state senators and the American Federation of Teachers sponsored it. According to Keith Hoeller, Washington’s 7,900 part-time faculty would certainly have benefited. Hoeller, is the co-founder of the...
The United Auto Workers defeated the American Federation of Teachers in an election to represent part-time adjunct professors at New York University, according to a vote tabulated in mid-July by.
by Pamela Dillon IN ITS 1998 report, “Marching Toward Equity,” the American Federation of Teachers documented that part-time college faculty accounted for 42.6 percent of the total number of college faculty in America. Furthermore,.
The Rollercoaster of Remediation Ms. Jennifer Bradner’s “The Rollercoaster of Remediation” obviously comes from a good heart, but everything in my 20 years of teaching (tenured and adjunct) tells me she’s dead wrong. Renaming remedial courses so that they sound like “real” college courses is not going to...
