collective-bargaining

Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Collective Bargaining But Were Afraid to Ask

by Michael Mauer Particularly for private sector workers, both the legal and political obstacles to forming a union have become quite formidable in recent years. As a result, unions increasingly seek to bypass the process set out in labor law for filing for an election...

A Pyrrhic Victory? A Practical Look at the New School Adjunct Contract

by Elizabeth J. Carter The unveiling this past November of the first-ever collective-bargaining agreement between 2,000 part-time faculty and administration at the New School was met with widespread public attention.

Interview: Dr. William Scheuerman

by Chris Cumo The American Federation of Teachers, part of the AFL-CIO, issued its first report on part-time faculty in 1979 and has since been active in recruiting adjuncts and in advocating better.

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...

collective-bargaining

Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Collective Bargaining But Were Afraid to Ask

A Pyrrhic Victory? A Practical Look at the New School Adjunct Contract

Interview: Dr. William Scheuerman

Allan Hancock Part-Timers Vote for Union Representation

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