lbo-talk-digest V1 #1874

Beth Goldstein bg28 at is7.nyu.edu
Tue Sep 14 22:01:20 PDT 1999


There's an effort underway to unionize adjuncts in the NYC area. Contact me off list and I'll give the email address of one of the people organizing it.

Beth


>
> Date: Tue, 14 Sep 1999 02:24:55 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Chuck Grimes <cgrimes at tsoft.com>
> Subject: Re:Adjuncts
>
> A year & half ago, a friend of mine (in Art Hisotry at a branch
> campus) and I called a meeting of adjuncts, but only a few came
> (recently I learned that one of them was an old comrade of Patrick
> Bond's -- it's a small leftist world!), and we couldn't expand from
> there.
>
> BTW, are adjuncts organized anywhere in the US? If so, how? (Yoshie)
>
> Lots, mostly as part of regular faculty unions (AFT, NEA, and now also
> UE, UAW, SEIU) and whatnot (it's because it's harder to mobilize
> adjuncts and to sustain that mobilization). (Dennis Redmond)
>
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