Sunday Matinee: Chs 4 & 5: Organizing Boston & California

Barbara Wolf, Workplace 4.2

#adjunct organizing is A Simple Matter of Justice (Barbara Wolf, 2001). This Sunday's videos examine two noted cases and still relevant organizing models for regional and state, respectively.

Each Chapter focuses on the barriers, opportunities and organizing approaches being undertaken in a different situation. For example, Boston part-timers, through COCAL-Boston, are organizing on a regional basis because of the vast number of schools there, which may be the first US example of "metro strategy" later described by Joe Berry in Reclaiming the Ivory Tower. 

California community college part-time faculty, CPFA (California Part Time Faculty Association), are shown organizing statewide to change state laws. Sadly, the Boston page is gone, leaving no more than a a description in a Kairos article and dead link to a no longer existing website. The last Wayback Machine snapshot was May 1, 2003.  CPFA is still going strong: website, discussion list, quarterly journal, blog, Twitter, etc

COCAL-Boston: Regional Organizing (Boston) from Adjunct and Contingent on Vimeo.

About Boston Coalition of Contingent Academic Labor 

Joe Berry's COCAL Updates. Sept6

…a proverbial tip of the hat to Wayne Ross and Workplace: A Journal for Academic Labor (and its Facebook incarnation linked below)… and a peek at what they look like before I spend an hour or so reformatting, checking and embedding links, adding images, etc. This may be less aesthetic but sure saves a lot of time, plus does double duty as a reminder to to revisit Workplace (and blog where updates appear) again for the first time.

Wayne Ross posted in Workplace: A Journal for Academic Labor (Facebook) Wayne Ross 6:21pm Sep 6 COCAL Updates COCAL Updates Updates in brief and links 1. Kaplan faculty in Liverpool, England, UK unionize! From ...