Adjunct and contingent faculty at Macalester College and Hamline University in St. Paul announced that they have filed for their union election to join Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 284 as part of the national Adjunct Action campaign. The faculty announced the filing at an event with students and Congressman Keith Ellison that capped off a student-led “Contingent Faculty Appreciation Week,” at Macalester Collge that was covered in the Minneapolis Star Tribune, University of Minnesota Daily and Minnesota Public Radio.Adjunct and contingent faculty spoke …

Adjunct union organizing and working conditions were featured on the Wednesday, April 16th broadcast of the Diane Rehm show. Show guests included Maria Maisto of the New Faculty Majority, the Chronicle of Higher Education’s senior reporter Peter Schmidt, who recently wrote the aptly named article, “Power in Numbers“, about Adjunct Action campaigns in Boston, plus guest administrators from American University (where adjuncts are united in SEIU Local 500) and Kansas State University.

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Part-time faculty members are forming unions across the country helping to build a movement in higher education to strengthen our profession. The University of Southern California’s Annenberg Radio Network profiled SEIU/Adjunct Action campaigns both in LA and around the nation this week and interviewed Loyola Marymount University adjunct instructor Emily Hallock.

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