Illinois Contingent Faculty File Complaint After Hundreds Are Barred From Leadership Vote
Is the Illinois Education Association proving that the recent Supreme Court Janus decision was right? Crooked union elections may go uncorrected.
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Supreme Court Decision Could End Unions' Right to Force Adjunct Non-Members to Pay Dues
Janus vs. AFSCME could end rule that adjuncts must pay dues to unions they've chosen not to join.
Janus v. AFSCME—Adjuncts Could Be No Longer Required to Pay Union Agency Fees
by David Savage The U.S. Supreme Court is poised to deal a sharp blow to the unions that represent millions of teachers and other public employees, announcing Thursday it will consider striking down the mandatory fees that support…
Barnard Adjuncts Just Showed Us All Why It’s Time for the $25K Manifesto
We all know that $10,000 per course is a giant step closer to equal pay for equal work than $5K per course. We also know that $15,000-$25,000 per course would be equal pay at most two- and four-year public and private colleges and…
New Study Reveals AFT, NEA and AAUP Organizing Primarily FT Faculty Not PTers
Compare this to the AFT's organizing record prior its 2006 launch of a state-by-state legislative push to increase the number of full-time faculty. Of the 44 faculty units organized by the AFT between 2001-2006, 12 were for full-time…
Supreme Court Could Hear Second Legal Challenge to Forced Agency Fees Paid by Tens of Thousands of…
There is a case pending in the Seventh Circuit, Janus v. AFSCME, in which three Illinois state employees argue they shouldn’t have to pay “fair share” union dues. Whether it’s that case or another, most of the jurists President Trump has…
Analysis: 69,000 AFT Members Disappear
The bottom line: AFT’s 1.6 million members equate to a dues-paying equivalent of 854,000 full-time employed teachers. And we still have a mystery on our hands. The loss of more than 69,000 members that AFT reported for 2016 is larger than…
College Graduation Rates Down? Blame the Adjuncts!
by P.D. Lesko Salaries for full-time college faculty are at an all-time high, and the 4-year graduation rate for U.S. college students as of 2013 stood at 39 percent, the lowest 4-year graduation rate ever recorded. Who’s to blame for…
Why Every Adjunct Should Be Watching Friedrichs v. the California Teaching Association
by P.D. Lesko Agency fees, or as education union officials refer to them, “fair share fees,” are paid to faculty unions by individuals who either choose not to belong to a union, are barred from belonging to the union, or who…
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…