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After Bargaining for 18 Months, Ithaca Part-Timers Vote to Strike

The Ithaca College Contingent Faculty union voted at 88 percent to authorize a strike after 18 months of bargaining have failed to yield desired results. In a news release, the union states, "The strike vote comes after months of escalation in the contingent faculty’s struggle for...

Why We Decided To Form An Adjunct Union at Our Community College

by Luke Niebler On my first day teaching at the Community College of Allegheny County in Pittsburgh, I was wracked with the normal anxieties of a new college instructor: What.

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.

Adjunct faculty at the Art Institute of Seattle voted against union

[private]by Amy Rolph Faculty at the Art Institute of Seattle voted against taking an unprecedented move to unionize in July. If successful, the move would have been a first for for-profit schools in Washington state. The faculty at the small college near Pike Place Market...

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..

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

CMU Adjuncts Filing To Unionize

Adjunct faculty at Central Michigan University will vote for union representation in May 2010. Several adjunct faculty filed in February 2010 for a union representation election with Michigan Employment Relations Commission. The group of adjunct faculty, named The Union of Teaching Faculty, has worked with...

Union Rep Calls Yuba Cuts Inevitable

Pay cuts for instructors are inevitable, a union representative of part-time faculty at the Yuba Community College District says of trustees asking for a 3 percent reduction in pay —.

Adjuncts Rally for Union at Temple University

by Rosella Eleanor LaFevre The Adjunct Organizing Committee, a group that aims to unionize Temple’s part-time faculty, declared the week of Nov. 16th Adjunct Awareness Week. Members of the committee.

Part-time Concordia Faculty Threaten to Walk Off the Job

With only three weeks to go in the winter session, part-time faculty at Concordia University, in Quebec, Canada, are threatening to cancel classes and walk off the job. Without a contract or wage increase for six years, union president Maria Peluso said, the 900 members...

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