precarious life & times: Storifying CC Allegheny County

Tuesday, November 20, 2012

Storifying CC Allegheny County

…cutting course loads to duck covering adjuncts because it is the most effective tool for comprehensive coverage and to do justice an important story with its many voices and implications for the future of adjunct labor.

View the story "So it begins: cutting course loads" on Storify So it begins: cutting course loads …to keep #adjuncts below eligibility level for Affordable Health Care Act coverage. Not just faculty either: all part time employee groups are affected. Higher ed joins the Papa John / Applebee's club. Storified by · Tue, Nov 20 2012 22:13:02 College Cutting Faculty Hours To Avoid Obamacare RequirementCommunity College Of Allegheny County will cut the hours some instructors to avoid paying for their health insurance coverage under new A... College cuts adjuncts' hours to avoid Affordable Care Act costs | Inside Higher Ed Another #CCAC #eduslasher post…keep'em coming& RT all you get & mention @CCAC too…Cutting Hours to Save Money http://www.apt11d.com/2012/11/cutting-hours-to-save-money-.htmlNew Faculty Majority College cuts adjuncts' hours to avoid costs from Affordable Care Act: http://bit.ly/10mejhHInside Higher Ed ...breaking the story locally, The Post Gazette Health care law brings double dose of trouble for CCAC part-time profsTo Community College of Allegheny County's president, Alex Johnson, cutting hours for some 400 temporary part-time workers to avoid provi... In what we hope will be just the first in a series of adjuncts speaking in their own voices and not as media sound bites, Robin J. Sowards, Pittsburgh adjunct organizer comments:

...it's important to bust the myth that adjuncts only work when they are in class, especially since that's often the adminisphere's justification for institutional segregation between adjuncts and tenure-stream faculty ("adjuncts don't have research or service responsibilities" blah blah blah). Unfortunately, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act places us in a real dilemma.
If we prove to the adminisphere that we teach more than 30 hours, then we've handed them an excuse to reduce our maximum course load, thus reducing our pay (and they can do so without any fear of an unfair labor practice charge where that might otherwise have been a concern). But if we try to protect our maximum course load by insisting that we work fewer than 30 hours, we misrepresent the reality of our labor (which is that every "part-time" faculty member I know actually works "full-time" hours or more, even at a single school).
In my view, this is all the more reason why adjuncts should organize and push for normalization (e.g., along the lines proposed by Jack Longmate and Frank Cosco in their "Program for Change") rather than simply pushing for an increase in per-course pay or benefits at the cost of retaining "part-time" status. When I say "organize," I do not mean only organizing a formal labor union through the NLRB process; those legal mechanisms can have tactical utility, but they are a means, not an end. The PPACA is, I think, an excellent example of how reformist tactics often make things worse. Such are my tuppence, anyway. In solidarity, .R. CCAC to cut workloads, avoid paying staffers' health carePublished: Tuesday, November 20, 2012, 12:01 a.m. Updated 19 hours ago Clay Morgan is among about 200 part-time instructors at Community ... #CCAC cuts adjuncts' hours to save on health care costs. #edu #obamacare http://www.post-gazette.com/stories/local/neighborhoods-city/health-care-law-brings-double-dose-of-trouble-for-ccac-part-time-profs-662697/Eleanor Chute …and a few words from the "consultants" advising businesses on how to duck Part-timers On The Edge for BenefitsAs we mentioned in our post on CCAC, employers are examining the pros and cons of dropping part-time employee hours down so that they are... CCAC Cuts Hours Back Due to PPACAThe fallout from PPACA begins. PPACA does not require making benefits available to part-time employees and certain employers will be maki... Re-election fallout: Reduced hours, reduced payrolls and increased pricesAlthough it's tough to trace the saying's origins back to a single politician, many lawmakers at one time or another have said, "Election... Back story...blog post June 2012 about potential positive implications of ACA for adjuncts…obviously, not these. Plus comments the New Faculty Majority blog: Could the Affordable Care Act Help Cure HigherEd of Adjunctivitis?NFM VP Matt Williams explores the implications of the Affordable Care Act for Adjuncts at AkronAdjunct , reposted below in full. The U.S....

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Tuesday, November 20, 2012

Storifying CC Allegheny County

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