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Updates in brief and links
Updates in brief and links
PETITION JUNCTION
- Release the DAVIS DOZEN
- Ana Maria Fores Tamayo to White House: Better Pay for Adjuncts
- from NFM to VP Biden, US Senate and others: Don't blame high tuition on faculty pay
- Progressive Secretary ~ Student Loan Rates,
CONFERENCE CORNER
- Labor Notes Conference, May 4-5
- Edufactory Conference: The University is Ours! Struggles Within and Beyond the Neoliberal University, April 27-29, 2012, Toronto, Ontario + photos.
- COCAL International X Conference, Mexico City, August 10-12, 2012 at Universidad Nacional Autónimo de México (UNAM)
- A good short discussion about strikes and general strikes, public and private. Appropriate for us and for Mayday. Did you go out and make noise May Day?
- Late checks and disrespect? Do what these adjuncts did. Kalamazoo Valley CC (MI) contingents start a blog, collect signatures and file for union recognition with AFT local.
- International Student Movement: Discussion related to the GLOBAL EDUCATION STRIKE
- especially on MAY DAY: A reminder of the roots of May Day and why it is both dangerous and important to teach about it (and other labor history) and more on May Day. What a difference did MayDay make?
- More on the April 201, 2012, workshop and "Teach-in on Adjunct Faculty" at Green River College, WA, featuring Jack Longmate and Frank Cosco, moderated by Keith Hoeller and Kathryn Re.
Video edited by Dave Prenovost available for viewing. One highlight is Keith's reading of a statement of support from Cornel West at about the 0:01:00 mark. Jack Longmate's portion, "The Overload Debate: Conflict of Interest between Full- and Part-time Faculty" begins at 0:20:30 is synchronized with a set of PPT slides ~ copies available on line. Frank Cosco, president of the Vancouver Community College Faculty Association, speaks on "Abolishing the Two-track System"; his remarks begins at about the 0:06:00 mark.
- CSU faculty vote overwhelmingly for rolling strike authorization: Bargaining Updates; Strike Vote Archive & Materials
WELCOME TO THE PRECARIAT
- Walmart forced to pay millions in lost overtime. [Is there a lesson here for us?]
- Welcome to the Precariat Weekly on Paper.li, published by the New Faculty Majority.
- Latest edition of Too Much, the newsletter about the superrich and economic inequality
AROUND THE ADJUNCTIVERSE
- For-profits schools fighting proposed regulations in CA
- A new adjunct reflects on our status
- Letter exchange in CHE: Tenured Troll vs Adjunct Project Smackdown
- Student debt and adjunct wages
- PT lecturers in Taiwan protest wage gap
- From Graduate School to Food Stamps: Contingent faculty on welfare, comment trolls go wild; HuffPo, Daily Beast and more mainstream media
- Oronte Churm's Latest Adjunct Hero
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