Part-Time Faculty in Fresno Community College District Bargain 39% Pay Hike

Part-time faculty teaching classes at State Center Community College District’s four colleges and centers could soon get a big pay boost as a result of a newly negotiated labor contract that union official Keith Ford tells GV Wire is “a really good first step, but just the first step.” The longtime low pay for part-timers has forced many to take on multiple jobs while struggling to pay for basics, and some have even qualified for the state’s food benefits for low-income households. Part-time instructors, who teach more than half of State Center classes, are only paid for actual instruction time […]

Rutgers and Union Leaders Reach Tentative Agreement

by Matt Fazelpoor The labor dispute between unions representing 9,000 educators, researchers, clinicians, and counselors and Rutgers University moved a step closer to resolution April 30 as union leadership approved tentative agreements after nearly a year of negotiations. Representatives of the three unions, Rutgers AAUP-AFT, the Rutgers Adjunct Faculty Union, and AAUP-BHSNJ, met to approve the agreements and recommend them to members for ratification. That bumpy year of negotiations also included a five-day strike in mid-April, which led to the two sides being called down to Trenton with the governor’s office stepping in to help mediate talks that had broken down. The two […]

UC Faculty Strike Brought Huge Pay Raise, Now Administrators Are Cutting Grad Student Jobs to Pay For It

by Renae Cassimeda Two months after the six-week strike of 48,000 academic workers in the University of California system was prematurely shut down by the UAW bureaucracy, academic workers and the public university system are facing a new wave of attacks. In a retaliatory move, according to reports from academic workers throughout the UC system, the university has advised major cuts to departments. The move by the university is meant to punish workers for striking. The cuts are being justified as needed to pay for the cost of raises outlined in the new contracts between academic workers and the university. According to […]

Faculty, Including Adjuncts, at Univ. of Kansas Looking to Unionize

by Abdullah Al-Awhad Low salaries, lack of communication between the administration and faculty, and tensions about the Kansas Board of Regents’ regulations of tenured faculty are the reasons the United Academics of the University of Kansas, a prospective union, cited for its emergence. Under the umbrella of the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) and the American Association of University Professors (AAUP), UAKU aims to represent over 1,500 full-time and part-time tenured and non-tenured-track faculty. Berl Oakley, a professor of molecular biology at the University and union member, said UAKU has made “a lot of progress” with card signing, a required step for […]