NLRB issues another complaint against @EWUChicago

…we call for a letter writing campaign & your support for United Adjunct Association at EWU and Curtis Keyes, our Chicago board member, chapter organizer and determined organizer... blogged about here for his determined struggle, first to organize EWU adjunct faculty and since then to gain EWU's acceptance of the union. Yet again, EWU is trying to get NRLB rulings to recognize the union and not place continual obstacles in their way. Here's the latest, NRLB complaint (attached below). Curtis writes, 

Dear Sisters and Brothers,

You'll find the latest NLRB complaint against East-West University in the attachment. We go back to Labor Board court on Feb 4. The East-West struggle is truly a battle for contingent faculty rights. I'm doing my best to hold on and keep fighting. Happy 2013 to all!

Bro. Curtis

EWU Chicago Protest. Tues July 13

   

JOIN THE UNITED ADJUNCT FACULTY ASSOCIATION

 East-West University (EWU), Chicago

DEMONSTRATION

PICKETING AGAINST UNFAIR LABOR ACTIONS 

by EWU Chancellor Khan and Provost Jain.

Support our Protest Demonstration on Tuesday, July 13^th

11AM-1PM @ 816 S. Michigan Avenue, in front of the EWU main entrance

Emergency Chicago COCAL Update: EWU

Here's more about trouble on the Loop and an impassioned but spot on admonition not to let this one slide. Joe Berry writes, 

Please find below the message just sent to the Chicago COCAL list. Send your protests to the administrators listed and pass this message on, especially to anyone you know in the Chicago area who might come to the picket, but also to people who can send protests or statements of support. Also forward to organizations for statements of support. More information will be forthcoming.

more about the neighborhood

Friends, Colleagues and Fellow-workers, (please forward this message to all relevant lists ASAP)

Emergency Picket TOMORROW, Monday, June 21

Adjunct faculty at East-West University in downtown Chicago are planning a picket line to protest the non-rehiring of several (including the leader of the United Adjunct Faculty Association, IEA/NEA) faculty for both summer and fall terms. All but one of these are people who recently signed union authorization cards calling for a Labor Board election. 

As the press release (to be posted separately) and the Inside Higher Ed story make clear, the administration is trying to forestall unionization by essentially firing the entire faculty then hiring them back selectively after personal one-on-one interviews with the Chancellor. This is happening at a school with a mostly African-American and other minorities faculty and student body and where the vast majority of students are on Federal financial aid.

Please come out to the picket TOMORROW morning if at all possible and support our brave adjunct colleagues in this private college. Take a sick day if you have to, but come and bring others. If this tactic of firing a whole faculty to avoid unionization is allowed to stand, it could threaten all future organizing and even existing unions. If you ever wanted to do something concrete for the contingent faculty movement, this is the time!

JOIN THE PICKET LINE IN SUPPORT OF BETTER WORKING CONDITIONS

THE UNITED ADJUNCT FACULTY ASSOCIATION AT EAST-WEST UNIVERSITY (EWU) AND FORMER ADJUNCT FACULTY WHO HAVE BEEN FIRED

PICKET PROTEST AGAINST UNFAIR TREATMENT OF ADJUNCT FACULTY AT EWU

DATE: MONDAY, JUNE 21, 2010

LOCATION: 816 SOUTH MICHIGAN AVENUE

TIME: 8-9:45AM

Email or fax protests to: (please copy all protests and and send statements of support to ewuadjuncts@gmail.com)

• Chancellor Dr. Mohammad Wasiullah Khan, chancellor@eastwest.edu
• Provost Dr. Madhu Jain, madhu@eastwest.edu
• Surface mail address: 816 South Michigan Avenue, Chicago, Illinois 60605. Telephone, 312-939-0111. Fax: 312-939-0083

Good news, wired/weird news, bad news

East Michigan success, Minnesota frustration, California dreaming and serious speed bumps on Chicago's South Loop. 

Apropos the last, here is the latest from EWU (presumably Chicago, not to be confused with the Bangladesh for-profit, not yet anyway), forwarded by Joe Berry for posting to the public and blogged at the Adjunct Voice. 

The United Adjunct Faculty Association (UAFA) at

East-West University (EWU) withdrew its petition to vote for a union. 

In a letter addressed one day before EWU administration received the National Labor Relations Board collective bargaining petition notice for adjuncts, Chancellor M. Wasiullah Khan informed all department chairs, full-time faculty, part-time faculty and staff that "no contract will be renewed this year effective the forthcoming summer session and the academic year beginning with Fall quarter 2010." The letter went on to point out that no department chair, full-time faculty, part-time faculty or staff member would be hired back "without first meeting with the Chancellor." 

As an adjunct at EWU, I have never ever witnessed such blatant disrespect and disregard for the many hard working people who care deeply about their job. The primary reason for the petition withdrawal is based on the administration's attorney argument that no adjunct would be an employee at East-West during the summer so the petition for collective bargaining was no valid. UAFA members are not deterred. It will regroup and re-file the petition at the start of fall 2010. For more information and words of support, please send to

EWUadjuncts@gmail.com. 

In Solidarity, EWU Adjuncts

Please write the EWU adjuncts and let them know you support them. If you are also of a mind to write administration as well, here's the East West University contact page. With only 18 full time faculty listed, the university must be even more ad/con dependent than the now standard 70-73%

Since, as far as I know, EWU Adjuncts don't have a home of their own on the web. there are welcome to camp out right here ~  and I bet with Raye too.