Bonnie Halloran

Mayday Manifesto Signers Call For Minimum $5K Per Course Pay For Adjuncts. How Can So Many People Be So Wrong?

by P.D. Lesko I scanned the list of signers, and recognized many of the names. Good, hardworking people. Well-intentioned people. I’ve met many of them at conferences over the years. Interviewed several of them for Adjunct Advocate magazine and AdjunctNation.com. These people had signed in...

U of M Lecturers Participate In FLASH MOB To Call Attention To Contract Negotiations

The University of Michigan's Lecturer's union, an affiliate of the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), entered talks for the group's fourth contract with on November 30, 2012. LEO, as the.

Michigan House Republicans Pass Bill That Strips Grad. Students of Right to Unionize

Governor Rick Snyder has repeatedly claimed he has no interest in starting a Right-To-Work war in Michigan. Whether he has been telling the truth may become very clear, very soon..

Michigan lecturers’ union rallies after top official terminated, claims move was ‘union retaliation’ by University officials

University of Michigan lecturers rallied in late-April to protest the non-reappointment of one of the Lecturers Employment Organization’s top officials, a move some lecturers are calling retaliation against the union. The group of about 30 lecturers, dressed in yellow LEO T-shirts, gathered in Angell Hall...

Michigan lecturers' union rallies after top official terminated, claims move was 'union retaliation' by University officials

The Pamphlet Police at Wayne State University

For the past few weeks, I have been watching the HBO series "John Adams." I'm a history buff, who narrowly escaped enrolling in a Ph.D. program in history. I recently.

Michigan Lecturers Agree to New Contract

A union of lecturers and adjunct faculty reached an agreement with the University of Michigan on higher salaries and new guarantees on job security. “We didn’t get everything we were looking for, but we think we got a very good first contract in a very...