shout out to #adjunct #trailblazers: @AndrewR_Physics #EMUFT @3rdLWW

…there are more "adjunct trail blazers" to shout out...and we will try to do just that. To mention just a few, both Annette M. Rodriguez' #WeAreNNMC (also dba @Alacranita) and the UA Convergence campaigns are models for aspiring adjunct activist groups Covered extensively, they deserve separate overview posts…time/energy permitting, they will get them.

In the meantime, the precarious faculty network would like The three in the title recently hit my digital field of vision windshield recently: here's a quick shout out plus links for you to follow and support them. PS there's a video at the end...for dessert.

• Andrew Robinson faces obstacles and a long fight as the first Carleton University contract instructor to try to convert to a FT position per Clause 27.3 of the Collective Agreement. Since applying, administration has isolated him from the department by threatening a TT line. Andrew writes, ❝If I can establish a precedent, then others will be able to follow at our university, but I expect max resistance.❞ He will persevere. We can support him by following and commenting on his blog (also on our blogroll) and @AndrewR_Physics on Twitter

• Next, the East Michigan University Federation of Teachers Local 9102 is petitioning EMU president to pay adjunct faculty on time ~ against a new schedule that makes them wait...and for less than on the former schedule. We posted more about them here at Precarious Faculty on Facebook. Check out, like and follow the EMUFT Facebook page for more.

• Go global with Third Level Workplace Watch (Facebook), an international collective of precarious workers in higher ed fighting for fair pay & working conditions: ❝Neoliberalisation of third level [post secondary] institutions has casualised labour within this sector and these workplaces are now a site of struggle in ways not previously known. TLWW shares information on workplace struggles in universities, colleges and ITs❞ and also at @3rdLWW on Twitter. More here at Precarious Faculty on Facebook. Subscribe to the TLWW newsletter by emailing thirdlevelworkplacewatch@gmail.com

About the video: no it's not Sunday yet but the rousing music suits the shout out theme. I rediscovered this 2007 video (already on the on the movietime for @precariousfac playlist) on Raye Robertson's Adjunct Voice blog while searching #EMUFT history. fyi this is not their first tussle with admin and probably won't be their last either. They've been at it for a while since fighting for and winning the right to represent part-time faculty. ICYMI historically stron education unions in the Upper Midwest have been under siege.