Chronicle Story on Metro Organizing Strategy

Post Date April 14, 2014
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There’s a new article in The Chronicle of Higher Education today about Adjunct Action/SEIU’s metro-organizing strategy, focusing on the efforts of adjunct faculty who are organizing across the Boston-metro area.

“The thinking behind the approach holds that sufficient union saturation of a given local labor market will not only produce big gains at unionized colleges, but put nonunionized ones under pressure to treat adjuncts better, too. Those colleges might be prompted to improve pay or working conditions to be able to compete for talent or, in …

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Boston City Council Unanimously Passes Resolution Supporting Good Jobs for Adjunct Instructors

Post Date April 7, 2014
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Adjunct faculty from Boston University and Northeastern University receive a Boston City Council resolution that calls for fair wages and a free and fair union elections.

On Friday, the Boston City Council unanimously passed a resolution in support of adjunct instructors, calling for colleges and universities in the Boston area to improve pay and benefits for adjunct instructors and to also allow them to unionize without interference.

“The current system for paying adjunct professors is hurting these individuals and their families

but also the …

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Webinar for Adjuncts with Student Debt on April 11

Post Date April 3, 2014
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Adjunct Action has partnered with the Department of Education to offer you a webinar on student loan repayment plans, loan forgiveness, and the best strategies for paying back your loans. The webinar will be held on April 11th from 2 to 3 p.m. EST.

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Inside Higher Ed Article on launch of Adjunct Network

Post Date March 25, 2014
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“Hoping to reach an estimated 1 million adjunct professors nationwide, Service Employees International Union on Monday officially launched its new Adjunct Action Network website. The union marked the occasion with a ‘national town hall’ event for adjuncts at Georgetown University here.”

Click here to read the full Inside Higher Ed article by Colleen Flaherty about the launch of the Adjunct Action Network.

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Howard University, Maryland Institute College of Art Adjuncts File for Union Elections

Post Date March 11, 2014
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On March 7th, adjunct faculty at Howard University in Washington, D.C. and the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) in Baltimore filed for a union election and to join the SEIU Local 500 Coalition of Academic Labor. It’s another step forward in the movement to form adjunct faculty unions across America.

The news follows up a huge victory for Lesley University adjuncts in Boston who voted 84 percent to join SEIU/Adjunct Action. In the past two weeks, contingent faculty at Seattle University have also …

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Lesley University Adjunct Faculty Vote to Form Union, Join Colleagues at Tufts in Adjunct Action/SEIU

Post Date February 24, 2014
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Joining part-time lecturers at Tufts University, Lesley University adjunct faculty have resoundingly voted to join SEIU.

Adjuncts teaching across Lesley’s four campuses stood together and overwhelmingly supported a union on campus by voting 359 to 67 to join SEIU. The votes for the all-mail ballot election were counted at the Boston office of the National Labor Relations Board on Monday.

The win reflects an 84 percent vote in favor of forming a union – a landslide victory for adjuncts, and the entire Lesley community.

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Boston Students Celebrate Valentine’s Day by Showing Love for their Adjunct Instructors and Supporting Efforts to Unionize

Post Date February 13, 2014
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Valentine’s Day isn’t just for college sweethearts this week. On campuses across Boston, including Tufts, Lesley and Northeastern universities, students are showing love for their instructors and efforts to form unions among part-time and contingent faculty.

At Tufts University, where part-time lecturers have formed a union and last week entered into contract negotiations with the administration, students are passing out, “I’d ♥ a good contract for part-time lecturers,” fliers and showing signs of support all over campus. Tufts senior Dan Katz-Zieger said, “”Hundreds of …

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Boston Globe: Adjunct Op-Ed on the “Invisible Professor”

Post Date February 3, 2014
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On Sunday, Boston University adjunct and author Jay Atkinson shared how on most campuses, adjuncts are an undervalued, invisible population. His featured piece included quotes from SEIU/Adjunct Action leaders like Andy Klatt. “Now on the bargaining committee after a successful effort to unionize at Tufts, Klatt says that an adjunct’s life is doubly ‘precarious’ — employment can be terminated at the administration’s whim, and the terrible pay makes it difficult to raise a family, pay a mortgage, or plan for retirement.” But, Klatt said, “We’re …

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So You Want to Be an Adjunct Art Therapy Professor

So You Want to Be an Adjunct Art Therapy Professor
Post Date January 30, 2014
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Cathy Malchiodi’s article originally appeared in Psychology Today. For the original article, click here.

Many of my colleagues are art therapy professors at colleges and universities. But the majority of these colleagues make up the massive group collectively known as art therapy “adjunct professors.” Most teach because they enjoy the interaction with graduate students and an academic community; some do it for the extra money (more on that later on); and others do it to class up their CV and get library privileges they may otherwise not have …

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Community Support for Adjuncts Featured in the Chronicle of Higher Education

Post Date January 29, 2014
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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 …

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