faculty

  • Illinois Faculty Unions Resist University Attacks
    Nancy Traver
    Nov 24 2011 - 10:53am

    At colleges around Illinois, faculty are under siege and looking to their unions for support. They're organizing, striking, resisting cuts, and defending contingent adjunct professors. “It’s the ripple effect,” said a faculty union president.

  • A ‘Nice Experience’ or a Job? Lecturers at Michigan School Say Part-Timers Need a Union, Too

    Contract lecturers at Eastern Michigan University in Ypsilanti are fighting a hostile administration over the right for part-time adjunct lecturers to join the lecturers' union. They're part of one-third of teachers not on the tenure track nationally who've been on the job at least five years but are treated like short-term employees just seeking "a little money and a nice experience," as EMU's union-busting lawyer put it.

  • Multi-Union Coalition at UC Strikes Back at Devastating Cuts
    Jack Gerson, Tanya Smith
    Sep 24 2009 - 1:33pm

    A coalition of unions, faculty, and students gave a sharp rebuke to cuts and corporate giveaways at the renowned University of California system on September 24—the first day back for most UC campuses.

  • Faculty Strike at Detroit-Area University, Protesting Cuts Amid Surplus
    Bryan G. Pfeifer
    Sep 8 2009 - 10:56pm

    Summer will last a little longer at Oakland University, outside of Detroit, as faculty took to the picket line last week, challenging the school administration and building student solidarity.

  • Part-Time Professors: Little Pay, No Pensions, No Health Care, No Seniority, Now Organizing Unions.

    Paul Abowd

    One at a time, the teachers came out of the sub-zero January cold and into the lobby of Wayne State University’s McGregor Hall in Detroit. By the time the board of governors meeting began—where the teachers had three minutes total to detail their concerns—they were together in force. . . .


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  • U-Mass unions demand funded contracts, plan walkouts

    Bryan Pfeifer

    "Fund the contracts or we won't work."

    This militant message from over 200 rank-and-file members from the campus's five unions rang through the Mullins Center at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst November 6.


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