The abolition of the limited-term employment system at the University of Tokyo allows contract full- or part-time administration staff and (from April this year) part-time teachers to…
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by Elizabeth Pattman Elon University has gone up the ladder, filing a request for review with the national office of the National Labor Relations Board after the…
Pitt faculty began collecting confidential union cards in January 2018. Their goals include addressing concerns about pay and job security for adjunct and part-time faculty. They also would like…
by Rachel Friedman In November 2018, the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) withdrew its petition to unionize Non-Tenure Track (NTT) faculty members in the College of Arts…
With no job security and low pay in one of the most expensive cities in North America, hundreds of employees at a world-class university are struggling to simply…
The time over which half of the cohort has left the field has shortened from 35 years in the 1960s to only 5 years in the 2010s.…
Within a few weeks, Kapila and two other union members, Michele Hoffman and Carey Friedman, received Integrity Committee notices informing them that they'd been charged with causing…
by AdjunctNation staff The American Association of University Professors has filed an amicus brief in support Duquesne University faculty who have voted to form a union, arguing that widespread…
The more than 2,600 survey respondents challenged the institutional line that most low-paid, short-term and part-time teachers love the flexibility of their contract employment. Instead they have…
Ontario passed Bill 148 — the Fair Workplaces, Better Jobs Act — in November 2017. The labor legislation includes a range of changes such as an increased…