LAWCHA Statement on Collective Bargaining for All Faculty
The Labor and Working Class History Association (LAWCHA) applauds and endorses the Organization of American Historians (OAH) “Statement on Collective Bargaining and Part-Time,.
Contingent Faculty Committee Blog
Unionization and Collective bargaining in higher education – Newsletter from Hunter College center, November, 2016
Here’s the November installment of The National Center E-Note, a monthly electronic newsletter containing research and analysis relevant to unionization and collective bargaining.
- by Eric Fure-Slocum
- December 5, 2016
Contingent Faculty Committee Blog
Unionization and Collective bargaining in higher education – Newsletter from Hunter College center, October, 2016
The National Center E-Note is a monthly electronic newsletter containing research and analysis relevant to unionization and collective bargaining in higher education and.
- by Eric Fure-Slocum
- November 29, 2016
Contingent Faculty Committee Blog
Contingent Academic Labor, Special Issue of Working USA
The September 2015 special issue of Working USA is dedicated to “Contingent Academic Labor: The Way Forward.” All of the articles in the.
- by Eric Fure-Slocum
- September 25, 2016
Contingent Faculty Committee Blog
Claire Goldstene, “The Politics of Contingent Academic Labor”
Claire Goldstene’s 2012 article, “The Politics of Contingent Academic Labor,” in the NEA journal Thought & Action, argues that the shift to a.
- by Eric Fure-Slocum
- September 25, 2016
Contingent Faculty Committee Blog
OpEd
Michael McCown, “How Community-College Faculty Organized a Strike and Scored a Contract,” Portside (September 7, 2016)
For the first time in its 40-year history, the union of full- and part-time faculty at City College of San Francisco recently went.
- by Eric Fure-Slocum
- September 25, 2016
Contingent Faculty Committee Blog
When Unfair Labor Relations Reify, It’s Time to Strike
What an irony it is that institutions of higher learning have become some of the worst exploiters of workers in America. Those of.
- by Georgette Fleischer
- September 25, 2016
Contingent Faculty Committee Blog
Teaching Blog
Decline of Tenure for Higher Education Faculty: An Introduction
For most college and university instructors in the United States today, teaching provides neither the job security nor income typically associated with middle.
- by Trevor Griffey
- September 2, 2016
Contingent Faculty Committee Blog
LAWCHA
It is About Time: LAWCHA’s Committee on Contingent Faculty
This blog introduces LAWCHA’s newest and most important initiative. Last year, with encouragement from past president Nancy MacLean, an ad hoc committee drafted.
- by James Gregory
- September 1, 2016
Contingent Faculty Committee Blog
Recommendations made by LAWCHA’s contingent faculty committee
In March of 2015, LAWCHA’s recently formed ad hoc committee on contingent faculty issued its first report and set of recommendations. This was.
- by Eric Fure-Slocum
- August 31, 2016