Check out the rough draft of a declaration of the rights of adjuncts and comment, please.
Draft declaration of rights of adjuncts
The possibility of composing and ratifying such a document will be discussed at the next AFA meeting, Tues, April 19, 2:30-4pm, 1P/201.
Sunday, March 13, 2016
Wednesday, February 17, 2016
How would new full time faculty lines affect adjuncts?
Long-time adjunct activists Keith Hoeller and Jack Longmate expose the true implications of a bill in the Washington State legislature that is being advertised as good for adjuncts but that would actually result in the loss of many adjuncts' jobs. This is worth a read because the PSC and CUNY are also talking about adding full-time lines without specifying how these lines would affect the livelihoods of our current adjunct faculty. Click here to read the article:
Hoeller and Longmate, Legislature’s Democrats ignore adjunct faculty crisis
Keith Hoeller is editor of a recent eye-opening collection of articles about the issue of low-paid, non-tenured faculty, Equality for Contingent Faculty: Overcoming the Two-Tier System, Vanderbilt University Press, 2014.
Hoeller and Longmate, Legislature’s Democrats ignore adjunct faculty crisis
Keith Hoeller is editor of a recent eye-opening collection of articles about the issue of low-paid, non-tenured faculty, Equality for Contingent Faculty: Overcoming the Two-Tier System, Vanderbilt University Press, 2014.
Monday, February 1, 2016
Wednesday, January 27, 2016
What does a possible impasse in contract negotiations mean for adjuncts?
Are you wondering what "impasse" means? If you received the email from PSC (our union) about the possible impasse in negotiations, perhaps you're confused. Adjuncts can influence the settlement if we refuse to remain silent.
Here are three links to information that may help. The first two explain the legalities for what comes next:
Public Employment Relations Board impasse procedures
PERB FAQs
But take a look at the formal letter the CUNY administration wrote to the Public Employment Relations Board asking for mediation! CUNY Notification of Impasse
In it, there are some interesting details about what they can't agree about in contract negotiations. CUNY wants to hire more exceptionally high paid faculty, and PSC doesn't agree. PSC supposedly wants, among other things, very humble gains for adjuncts that CUNY just doesn't want to give. See a pattern here? (Hint: inequality.)
On CUNY's summary list of PSC's unfulfilled demands is "equity salary increases for Adjuncts" (d). The document doesn't say, and the PSC bargaining team has not said, just what amount of money would be considered "equity." But let's make sure this issue does not get lost during mediation!!!!!
CUNY's "notice of impasse" says that PSC has also asked for other things that might improve the situation for adjuncts: compensation for online course development and retention of copyright by the developer, improved eligibility for tuition waivers, some kind of modest job security, allowing more breaks in service before we lose our salary step or our benefits, penalizing the employer for sending paychecks late, allowing Grad Assistants' service to count toward Adjunct benefits, and a few other things.
Get involved. Tell everyone you know (i.e., the public!) what adjuncts need, and why. And write/speak to CSI's officers who have a say in any proposed settlement: George Sanchez, Michael Batson, and our reps in the PSC Delegate Assembly.
Delegates
George Sanchez
Michael Batson
David Keberle
David Kritt
Catherine Lavender
Jane Marcus
Richard Powers
Eleni Tournaki
Alternate Delegates
Carol Hartman
Jonathan Peters
Irving Robbins
Charles Thomas
Ying Zhu
Here are three links to information that may help. The first two explain the legalities for what comes next:
Public Employment Relations Board impasse procedures
PERB FAQs
But take a look at the formal letter the CUNY administration wrote to the Public Employment Relations Board asking for mediation! CUNY Notification of Impasse
In it, there are some interesting details about what they can't agree about in contract negotiations. CUNY wants to hire more exceptionally high paid faculty, and PSC doesn't agree. PSC supposedly wants, among other things, very humble gains for adjuncts that CUNY just doesn't want to give. See a pattern here? (Hint: inequality.)
On CUNY's summary list of PSC's unfulfilled demands is "equity salary increases for Adjuncts" (d). The document doesn't say, and the PSC bargaining team has not said, just what amount of money would be considered "equity." But let's make sure this issue does not get lost during mediation!!!!!
CUNY's "notice of impasse" says that PSC has also asked for other things that might improve the situation for adjuncts: compensation for online course development and retention of copyright by the developer, improved eligibility for tuition waivers, some kind of modest job security, allowing more breaks in service before we lose our salary step or our benefits, penalizing the employer for sending paychecks late, allowing Grad Assistants' service to count toward Adjunct benefits, and a few other things.
Get involved. Tell everyone you know (i.e., the public!) what adjuncts need, and why. And write/speak to CSI's officers who have a say in any proposed settlement: George Sanchez, Michael Batson, and our reps in the PSC Delegate Assembly.
Delegates
George Sanchez
Michael Batson
David Keberle
David Kritt
Catherine Lavender
Jane Marcus
Richard Powers
Eleni Tournaki
Alternate Delegates
Carol Hartman
Jonathan Peters
Irving Robbins
Charles Thomas
Ying Zhu
Sunday, January 17, 2016
Big Gains for Adjuncts
"Northeastern is latest university where first contract with
adjunct union has included substantial salary increases and other key
benefits -- such as payments for classes that colleges cancel...."
Check out this Jan 15, 2016, article in Inside Higher Ed by Colleen Flaherty about progress adjuncts are making in other institutions: Big Gains for Adjuncts
Check out this Jan 15, 2016, article in Inside Higher Ed by Colleen Flaherty about progress adjuncts are making in other institutions: Big Gains for Adjuncts
CSI Adjuncts Survey
If you're frustrated with false stereotypes of adjuncts, or if you just want to find out more about the adjuncts at College of Staten Island, read the summary of the survey we did on campus. Go to the CSI Adjuncts Survey page for a summary, or click the link below for some slides.CSI Adjunct Survey results (Feb 2015)
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