LMU Adjunct Advocates Changes in Labor Law

Dr. Darren Murray recently testified at a hearing of the National Labor Relations Board in D.C. about how proposed changes to national labor law could benefit adjuncts who want to form a union. Murray is involved in the effort of adjunct faculty at Loyola Marymount University to form a union, and has first-hand knowledge of what it means to have a union contract.

“I taught at LMU for twenty-one years, and I recently started teaching at California State University, Northridge (CSUN) where the adjuncts are protected …

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Chronicle Story on Metro Organizing Strategy

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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Webinar for Adjuncts with Student Debt on April 11

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

“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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Dr. Joseph Fahey on Adjunct Justice, Catholic Identity, and Labor Unions at LMU

On March 12th and 13th, students and faculty at Loyola Marymount University came together for a very productive conversation on adjunct justice on our own campus. This two-day event featured a lecture given by Dr. Joseph Fahey, Professor of Religious Studies at Manhattan University and co-founder of Catholic Scholars for Worker Justice, and panel discussions in which LMU adjuncts spoke on the effects that adjunct working conditions have on LMU.

Dr. Fahey’s engaging and persuasive lecture, “Catholic Employers and Worker Rights: Problems and Possibilities,” addressed adjunct …

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

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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Union Elections Halted for Adjunct Professors at Loyola Marymount; Election Status Pending at University of La Verne

Over the past several months, part-time and adjunct faculty members at LMU and ULV have worked very hard to build a strong union.

Unfortunately, the administration at both schools have done everything in their power to stand in the way and prevent adjuncts from having a voice to address the many issues they face on the job – low pay and no job security and a lack of respect for the integral role they play on their campuses. Both administrations hired expensive consultants and spent students’ …

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U. of La Verne Campus Times: Group supporting adjunct unionization files suit against University

University of La Verne students, alumni and full-time faculty have stood by adjuncts who want to form a union. Several student groups have organized events to raise awareness on campus, and the Campus Times editorial said that an “adjunct union deserves our support.”

Despite community backing for ULV adjuncts and federal law prohibiting an employer from interfering in union elections, the University of La Verne student newspaper reported that “The Service Employees International Union last week filed a lawsuit against the University of La Verne citing …

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PBS NewsHour Features Loyola Marymount Adjunct’s Story

Adjunct Action is a campaign uniting adjunct professors at campuses across the country to address the troubling trend toward a marginalized teaching faculty.

Our movement is generating a national discussion.

Check out PBS NewsHour’s examination of the crisis in higher education broadcast on February 6, which shares Loyola Marymount University adjunct Arik Greenberg’s compelling story.

Being a university professor, once the quintessential middle class job, has become a low wage one. This shift to a contingent faculty workforce has been dramatic. In early 1970s, almost 80% of …

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The University of La Verne Community Encourages Adjunct Professors to Vote YES…

University of La Verne alumni, students and tenured faculty stand behind our efforts to form a union and to win for a better future. By forming our union with SEIU/Adjunct Action, we’ll have the collective strength to work together to improve our working conditions in order to enhance the quality of education at University of La Verne.

“Adjunct professors teach most of the courses, and constitute the majority of educators, at institutions across the United States. And though they are increasingly demoralized, underappreciated, and treated as …

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