ACA, Adjunct Faculty & USW, Pittsburgh

…the Adjunct Faculty Association of the United Steelworkers and the Battle of Homestead Foundation invite you to... A Community Conversation on The Affordable Care Act and Adjunct Faculty…March 6, 2013, 6:00-7:45pm at the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh,  Squirrel Hill, Room B

This Community Conversation is Open to the Public

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), also known as “Obamacare,” goes into effect on January 1, 2014, with the goal of expanding healthcare coverage to all Americans.  But Pittsburgh’s colleges and universities are already setting up barriers to prevent their adjunct faculty from taking advantage of its provisions. The Community College of Allegheny County has decreased the number of courses an adjunct faculty member can teach per semester, making it even more difficult for the majority of CCAC’s teachers to earn a living. 

NTT Fac confer in Pitt, on Member Forum

Call for Participation NTTF Conference

We blogged the Pittsburgh NTTF Conference mid June on Joe's COCAL Updates, asked around, heard zip ~ frustrating because we really like to hear more than zip when blogging and sooner too ~ that is, until finding this from Esther Merves in the morning mbx. She writes, 

 A few have asked, "Who are these folks?" I had a long talk this morning with one of the organizers, NFM member Ms. Robin Clarke, who teaches English at the University of Pittsburgh. Her spouse teaches at Duquesne.  She and a group of NTT faculty at Pitt, Duquesne, and Carnegie Mellon are trying to raise consciousness through this conference, and have received funding from the Pitt chapter of AAUP and US Steelworkers for the conference.