A win for Laguna College of Art + Design part-time faculty

Post Date July 15, 2014
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Following the win at Whittier College and two landslide victories in the Bay Area (at the San Francisco Art Institute and Mills College), part-time faculty at the Laguna College of Art + Design (LCAD) are the latest in a growing movement of California adjuncts who are building power with SEIU/Adjunct Action.

“We are excited to join the other part-time faculty in L.A., the Bay Area and the rest of the country who are organizing to improve the working conditions and educational environment for students and faculty,” said James …

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Petition to Department of Labor

Post Date July 14, 2014
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Adjunct activists — including Miranda Merklein, Joe Fruscione, and Bri Bolin - have written a petition to Davie Weil, the new director of the Wage and Hour division at the Department of Labor demanding an investigation into higher ed hiring practices, including wage theft from adjuncts.

As the petition points out:

approximately 76% of college professors are contingent labor, predominantly hired on a semester-by-semester contract and making an average of $2500 per 3-credit course. The average yearly income of an adjunct professor hovers in the same range as minimum-wage fast …

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St. Thomas Adjuncts on their Unionization Effort

Post Date July 8, 2014
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Category Minneapolis - St. Paul, News

Check out a video by MN2020 on unionization drive by St. Thomas adjuncts. Click here to read more.

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Star Tribune Adjunct OpEd: Why Adjunct Professors are Unionizing

Post Date July 2, 2014
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Hamline University Contingent Faculty Member Swati Avasthi wrote a moving piece in the Minneapolis Star Tribune about the crisis in higher education, and how forming a union is a part of rebuilding the American Dream. She writes…

“I grew up a beneficiary of the American dream. My grandfather in India worked two jobs, and despite the family’s poverty, got my father through medical school. My parents, both doctors, came to the United States with three children and $8 in their pockets. They completed their medical training, …

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Conversation with Rebecca Schuman

Post Date June 27, 2014
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On June 27, the Adjunct Action Network hosted a live on-air conversation with Rebecca Schuman, education reporter for Slate magazine and contributor to the Chronicle of Higher Education. She was joined on-screen by Joe Fruscione, Lee Bessette, and Katie Pryal.

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Hamline University Adjuncts Vote Overwhelmingly to Join SEIU

Post Date June 20, 2014
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Hamline University adjuncts have voted overwhelmingly to join part-time faculty at schools across the country in SEIU/Adjunct Action.The victory builds momentum for the upcoming vote at the University of St. Thomas and marks the first contingent faculty vote at a private school in Minnesota as adjuncts join the rapidly growing national union movement.Hamline adjuncts will join SEIU Local 284 as part of the Adjunct Action campaign. The margin of victory was huge — 72% voted yes.David Weiss is an adjunct faculty in the Religion department …

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Boston Adjuncts Join other Low Wage Workers for Huge Rally to Demand a Raise for Everyone

Post Date June 13, 2014
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Yesterday, over 1,000 low-wage workers, SEIU members and allies rallied and marched in the Bay State’s 3 biggest cities — Boston, Worcester and Springfield — to call for $15/hour, safe working conditions, and the right to organize. In Boston, the day of action featured speakers from fast-food workers to home-care workers to taxi drivers to certified nursing assistants to adjunct faculty. Boston University adjunct faculty member Maureen Sullivan spoke at the rally about all working people’s common cause. She said:

“We as a nation, …

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SEIU Members Join President Obama for Executive Action on Student Debt

Post Date June 9, 2014
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One trillion in student debt.

It’s a staggering amount, and it’s growing. And it’s not just the students sitting in the classroom who have growing levels of debts: adjuncts professors often carry large amount of student debt. Because of their contingent position, adjuncts are squeezed, struggling to get by and without access to some of the federal programs designed to manage and forgive debt.

Adjunct Action is working with a coalition of partners to bring the issue of student debt to the forefront of the conversation about …

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Seattle University Contingent Faculty Declare Victory in Ongoing Fight to Form a Union, Antioch University Votes in July

Post Date June 5, 2014
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Seattle University contingent faculty are confident of victory in their union campaign to join thousands of non-tenure track faculty nationwide in a rapidly growing movement, despite roadblocks by University administration that prevented a vote count on Tuesday.

“We are encouraged by the strong support and the great turnout among adjunct and contingent faculty, and we are very confident that we won the vote,” said SU contingent faculty member Louisa Edgerly.

Voting ended on June 2, and ballots have been impounded pending a decision on SU administration’s appeal …

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SF Art Institute Adjuncts Vote by a Landslide to Form a Union with SEIU

Post Date May 30, 2014
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Two weeks after Mills College, SFAI’s “visiting faculty,” as the school calls them, are the latest group of adjunct professors to join SEIU through the nationwide Adjunct Action campaign. At San Francisco Art Institute, a well-known and respected private nonprofit arts college—where students pay almost $40,000 a year in tuition alone—roughly 78% of the faculty (about 200 teachers) are essentially part-time temp workers.

They have no job security from semester to semester. They are paid by the course, often earning less than $30,000 a year with no …

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