Part-time lecturers of the School of Arts and Sciences will this week cast their ballots in an election determining whether adjunct faculty will form a union under Service Employees International Union’s (SEIU) Adjunct Action campaign, which aims to improve benefits, job security and pay for part-time professors at universities.
Many part-time faculty members lack the benefits that full-time professors receive, according to Andrew Klatt, romance languages lecturer and member of the part-time faculty organizing committee. Benefits include “just cause” protection from arbitrary job termination, security in class reappointment and a transparent evaluation process, he said.
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