Keith Hoeller

Washington Part-Time Faculty Association Urges Veto of Section 5 of 2ESSB 5194

by Keith Hoeller For nearly a decade, the American Federation of Teachers and the Washington Education Association have sought to replace the part-time faculty they represent with the full-time faculty they prefer instead. They have been losing members and nearly all the full-timers join the...

Washington/New York Faculty Unions Pushing “New Deal” Boondoggle That Will Cost Thousands of Part-Timers Their Jobs

by P. D. Lesko The Washington State House College and Workforce Development Committee will be hearing 2ESSB 5194 on Monday March 21, 2021. It would be a disaster for thousands.

Washington Part-Time Faculty Association Opposes State Senate Bill Aimed At “Equity” for PTers

Washington Part-Time Faculty Association leader Keith Hoeller testified before the Washington State Legislature: “Though the bill repeatedly uses the words “equity and inclusion,” this bill will increase the inequities and.

Book Review: Equality for Contingent Faculty

Edited by Keith Hoeller, Vanderbilt University Press, 2014, paperback. by Deborah Straw In Equality for Contingent Faculty, edited by Keith Hoeller, longtime academic labor activist John Hess is quoted as saying, “No contingent faculty is ever more than 15 seconds away from total humiliation.” This...

Why Are FT Faculty STILL Framing the National Discussion About Adjunct Faculty?

by P.D. Lesko In December 2015, full-time economics professor Howard Bunsis, chair of the American Association of University Professors' Bargaining Congress, told Truthout that the reduction in tenure-track hiring is the.

While Adjunct Activists Criticize Unified Locals, Temple U. PTers Vote to Join FT Faculty Union

Philadelphia Magazine reported on Dec. 2 that the Pennsylvania Labor Relations Board “tallied secret ballots cast by adjunct faculty at Temple in an election earlier this fall, and those faculty.

Second Class Citizen No More: Adjunct Files Unfair Labor Practice Complaint Against His Own Union

by P.D. Lesko Last week, adjunct faculty activist Keith Hoeller, co-founder of the Washington Part-Time Faculty Association and the Editor of Equality for Contingent Faculty: Overcoming the Two-Tier System (Vanderbilk Press, 2014), filed an unfair labor complaint with the Washington State Public Employee Relations Commission...

Campus Equity Week Kicks Off With a Quick Counterpunch

by P.D. Lesko Campus Equity Week, Oct. 26-30, is here and aimed at drawing attention to the exploitation of low-wage adjunct and contingent faculty at American colleges and universities, and.

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,.

1,464 PT Faculty Jobs On the Line At City College of San Francisco Thanks To Accreditation Mess

by P.D. Lesko At the City College of San Francisco, there are more than 3,000 jobs on the line thanks to the decision of the accrediting agency to pull CCSF’s accreditation. Among those 3,000 people who will lose their jobs if administrators don’t come up...

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