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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.

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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.

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Activism Teaching Blog

How Community-College Faculty Organized a Strike and Scored a Contract

By Michael McCown. For the first time in its 40-year history, the union of full- and part-time faculty at City College of San.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Global Affairs Articles Labor History

Speech by Dilma Rousseff, Upon Her Removal as President of Brazil, 31 August 2016

Dilma Roussef, the first woman to head Brazil, was removed from office on August 31, 2016, after months of impeachment hearings led the.

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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.

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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.

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