#adjunct action

@AdjunctAcrossAmerica describes his campaign: 

While crossing the country by bicycle and adjuncting online, I’ll be visiting over 35 cities to interview adjuncts, non-tenure track faculty, researchers, administrators, politicians, graduate students, and unionists about contingent labor. 

The trip is entirely self-supported and will be financed by teaching online at two colleges (that pay $2050 and $1350 per course, respectively). Along the way, I will save costs by stealth-camping (secretly camping in public or private areas) and cooking my own food, which is the only way such a campaign can be afforded on an adjunct wage. Phase I of this project is designed to conduct targeted interviews throughout the West in Summer 2015.  I am currently seeking interviews for Phase II of this project, where I will ride coast-to-coast in May-August 2016.

.@NLRB says @DuqEdu #adjunct faculty can unionize—#NAWD & @AdjunctAction helped says @JackHeaphy @CampusReform: 

… (and February 23-27, National Adjunct Action week) is a day that adjuncts all over the country will take advantage of to bring attention to the plight of adjuncts. There are shared goals and concerns to be certain, but exactly how adjuncts use the day or week is to be determined by each adjunct, group, or campus.

We encourage adjuncts to work together with other groups for maximum effect. But we are especially heartened by the "lone" adjuncts, or the isolated adjuncts who may be wondering how they can support ‪#‎NAWD‬.

Where in the World Are the Adjunct Unions? | Vitae

Sydni Dunn at the Chronicle of Higher Education’s Vitae site asks “Where in the World are the Adjunct Unions?” Dunn acknowledges that this  question is deceptively simple.  While stories about contingent or adjunct faculty members unionizing are fairly common, it is rather difficult to track how many schools have unionized.  Efforts to unionize have been patch work.  In some places, contingent…

Dear Adjuncts of Saint Rose and Greater Capital Region Albany Community,

I write on behalf of the members of the Graduate Student Employees Union/CWA Local 1104 at the University at Albany in full support of the recent efforts of adjuncts at The College of Saint Rose to form a Union in cooperation with SEIU and Adjunct Action. It is not only the right of these educators to form a union but it is the duty of the administration at St. Rose to establish professional and formal protocols for communicating and negotiating with those who serve its student body, while remaining neutral throughout the election process.

Though today many would have us believe that unions cause nothing but trouble in schools and universities, in fact, it is just the opposite. As educators and professionals, adjuncts suffer immense marginalization on the campus level which works against the very idea of the university itself which is revealing the unity and interconnectedness of knowledge, work, and social belonging. Teachers not only deserve better wages and spaces to have their grievances heard, but students and their families also deserve to know that those who have been tasked with educating and developing young minds are respected and fairly compensated on the campuses where they do their work.

As peers and fellow educators, the members of GSEU/CWA 1104 stand in solidarity with those adjuncts that are taking an active role in ensuring the integrity of the vocation of the educator and the fair distribution of resources on St. Rose's campus. Should any attempt be made to stifle or disrupt the right of these hardworking people to form a union, everyone can be sure that GSEU/CWA 1104 will be there to help hold St. Rose accountable.

  In Solidarity,

Adjunct Underground Communique #10 - 06-30-2014

Joe Berry’s Reclaiming the Ivory Tower: Organizing Adjuncts to Change Higher Education

Now Online! -> Chapter 5 – Getting Down to Work: An Organizer's Toolbox PLUS A Final Note read by Joe Berry!

http://adjunctunderground.kchungradio.org 

Adjunct Underground is proud to present an audiobook of Joe Berry’s book, Reclaiming the Ivory Tower: Organizing Adjuncts to Change Higher Education! 69 current or former adjunct instructors have banded together to each read and record short portions of the entire text! Adjunct Underground is proud to offer this broadcast as a downloadable podcast on KCHUNG Radio, that can be listened to online, or in adjuncts' cars as we drive from campus to campus. 

Chapter 5 – Getting Down to Work: An Organizer's Toolbox, features the voices of Joe Berry, Adam Overton, Alex Kudera, Curt Gambetta, Haruko Tanaka, Sandy de Lissovoy, Asher Hartman, Kat Jacobsen, Nicky Sa-eun Schildkraut, Agnes Bolt, Amanda Yates Garcia, Nate Page, Martin Lastrapes, Ana M. Fores Tamayo, Kate Durbin, and Alyssa Picard!

Plus a Final Note read by Joe Berry!

Sections in Ch. 5:

• Getting Down to Work: An Organizer's Toolbox • Even Two Make a Committee • Building a Committee: Finding People and Developing Issues • Building Relationships: Taking Care of Each Other • Acting like a Union • Dealing with Divisions • Defining Who Is In • Race, Gender, and Similar Divisions • Communications: From Office Whispers to the Internet (through "Email" section) • Websites • Analyzing the Opposition: Power, Politics, and Strategic Planning • Some Institutional Advantages We Have • We Are Not Alone: Finding Allies • Tenure Track Faculty • Final Note • Acknowledgments

Thanks to all the amazing adjuncts who made this audiobook possible!!

Adjunct Underground Communique #9 - 04-28-2014 

Joe Berry’s Reclaiming the Ivory Tower: Organizing Adjuncts to Change Higher Education Now Online! -> Chapter 4 – A Metro Organizing Strategy

http://adjunctunderground.kchungradio.org

Adjunct Underground is proud to present an audiobook of Joe Berry’s book, Reclaiming the Ivory Tower: Organizing Adjuncts to Change Higher Education! Around 69 current or former adjunct instructors have banded together to each read and record short portions of the entire text! Adjunct Underground is proud to offer this broadcast as a downloadable podcast on KCHUNG Radio, that can be listened to online, or in adjunct’s cars as we drive from campus to campus.

Chapter 4 – A Metro Organizing Strategy, features the voices of Joe Berry, Dorothy Gaffney-Madsen, Jane Arnold, Maria Vitale, Lydia Field Snow, Julian Brown, Maurie Peaslee, Margaret Hanzimanolis, Maria Maisto, and Karen Lentz Madison!

Sections in Ch. 4: • A Metro Organizing Strategy • Research • A Contingent Faculty Center: Virtual and Actual • Services • Assistance for Organizing • Regional Publicity • Direct Demands and Advocacy • Alliances, Coalitions, and Solidarity • Alternatives in Sponsorship and Organizational Structure 

Please stay tuned for releases of further chapters, appearing each week in March, through the top of April, here at http://adjunctunderground.kchungradio.org.

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