The Cambridge, Mass., City Council overwhelmingly approved a resolution this week expressing support for colleges’ contingent faculty members and their unionization, following in the tracks of the Los Angeles City Council, which passed a similar measure last month.
Both the Cambridge resolution, approved on Monday, and the Los Angeles council’s contain provisions calling for adjunct faculty members to be allowed to unionize without interference and to be “paid fair wages and benefits that allow them to support themselves and their families.”
Adjuncts across the country are forming unions and gaining the support of their communities, including two of our own. A recent article in the Chronicle of Higher Education highlights Cambridge, (MA) and Los Angeles City Council resolutions as adjuncts in both cities are building towards union elections.
“The Cambridge, Mass., City Council overwhelmingly approved a resolution this week expressing support for colleges’ contingent faculty members and their unionization, following in the tracks of the Los Angeles City Council, which passed a similar measure last month.
Both the Cambridge resolution, approved on Monday, and the Los Angeles council’s contain provisions calling for adjunct faculty members to be allowed to unionize without interference and to be “paid fair wages and benefits that allow them to support themselves and their families.”
These resolutions are another way students, full-time professors, community leaders and elected officials are coming together to support adjuncts as they help build a nationwide movement to improve standards for the profession by forming unions with SEIU/Adjunct Action.
The Cambridge, Mass., City Council overwhelmingly approved a resolution this week expressing support for colleges’ contingent faculty members and their unionization, following in the tracks of the Los Angeles City Council, which passed a similar measure last month.
Both the Cambridge resolution, approved on Monday, and the Los Angeles council’s contain provisions calling for adjunct faculty members to be allowed to unionize without interference and to be “paid fair wages and benefits that allow them to support themselves and their families.”
- See more at: http://m.chronicle.com/article/Municipal-Endorsements-Emerge/144015/?key=NWaC4515h7R9nRu2qbjAtbWYFEBiwmr8nZ_0BOUZz9NLWTBlOXpOZ3Z3d19rT0h0ekpocGZSZzdsZzNiMlFiWFdDdXAtT1ZTb2Fn#sthash.X2nhgJ24.dpuf
