Another victory for education unionization: Adjuncts make deal with Kaplan
As reported in today’s Insidehighered.com, the for-profit firm Kaplan, Inc. has just inked a collective bargaining agreement with 65 English-as-a-second-language (ESOL) part-time instructors in New York City. This is on the heels of several other recent adjunct collective bargaining victories over the past months. Of course, there’s lots of work to do, and this particular […]
University of Texas A.D. baffled: what could players possibly want?
From the Department of Willful Truth Avoidance: University of Texas athletic director Steve Patterson professes wonderment that college athletes could possibly want anything that universities aren’t already giving them. It can’t be that the players want anything, so, reasons Patterson, it must all be the fault of the lawyers: If our athletes get hurt, we […]
More resistance to players’ unionization at Northwestern, with the same tired tactics and arguments
As the NY Times reports, there’s continuing resistance to Northwestern football players’ proposed unionization. And it’s more of the same old, same old combination of, on the one hand, dividing workers, and on the other, suggesting that management is nice and has the employees’ best interests at heart.
Great news: University of Southern Maine to avoid cuts. There IS power in a union!
As reported by Ry Rivard in Inside Higher Ed today, the president of the University of Southern Maine announced last Friday that she will be consulting the faculty so as to avoid the laying off faculty. The news is not totally good, as USM will still be laying off 34 staff people, cutting several programs, […]
NY Times finally recognizes the problem of adjunct abuse, offers vague solutions, no mechanism
Today the NY Times at least finally recognized that the casualization of college faculty is a serious problem that affects students’ education and results in poor employment conditions and compensation. No kidding. What’s amazing is that the Times editorial board appears to think that it’s the first to realize this issue (maybe part of the Old […]