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Unions Need to Step Up for Equality
By Keith Hoeller
Last fall an adjunct professor, who wishes to remain anonymous, created
a Facebook page titled "National Adjunct Walkout Day" and posted the
following: "On February 25, 2015, adjuncts across the country will come
together to insist on fair wages and better working conditions."
Since 2000, various faculty and union groups have participated in Campus
Equity Week to increase awareness of the inequities faced by contingent
faculty members. But this call for a walkout is a different strategy
that has attracted interest across the country—and rightly so, because
though the approach may be new, the problem is not.
In the 1970s, colleges and universities, mimicking corporate America,
embarked on a policy whereby students would be taught by a huge cadre of
faculty members teaching off the more lucrative and secure tenure track,
largely earning low pay, few or no benefits, and no job security. These
contingent faculty members now account for about 75 percent of the
professoriate, surpassing one million in number.
full:
http://chronicle.com/article/Unions-Need-to-Step-Up-for/190053?cid=megamenu
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