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Labor Statistics and You

Matt Williams, VP of the New Faculty Majority Coalition for Contingent and Adjunct Equity, found the Bureau of Labor Statistics website entry for "Teachers - Postsecondary":

http://www.bls.gov/oco/ocos066.htm

But faculty salary and other estimates there don't jibe with many contingent faculty's experience, as Matt points out. If yours differs and you'd like to let the good Bureau know, go to:

http://www.bls.gov/bls/guidelinecontact.htm

No guarantee what effect we can have (so far, no answer from Secretary of Labor Solis to the letter of August 2 posted below), but it might be worth pointing out that some 800,000 of us are contingent, that AFT and AAUP estimate we make a quarter of what our tenured peers make, that we teach some 49% of undergraduate courses in public institutions nationwide, etc. Comb some of the Resource posts below for your own counter-stats to send -- by post or email -- to the address on the link above.

in solidarity,

Steve

Now nationwide

Today’s the much-anticipated launch of the NEW FACULTY MAJORITY: A NATIONAL COALITION FOR ADJUNCT AND CONTINGENT EQUITY’s web site. See it at www.newfacultymajority.info/national and see articles on its two energetic vice presidents in today’s edition of the two primary higher-education trade journals in the country, the CHRONICLE OF HIGHER EDUCATION and INSIDE HIGHER ED, at these links:

http://www.insidehighered.com/views/2009/09/10/maisto

http://chronicle.com/article/An-Activist-Adjunct-Shoulders/48348/?sid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en