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National Education Association (NEA)

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  • “Faculty Majority” defends academic democracy, but how?
    A discussion piece
     
  • In quest of fair treatment for adjunct teachers
  • Resisting attack from the right; fighting the mob
    Facing the most outright attack since President Reagan broke the air traffic controllers association, unions are responding with an unusual display of labor power. Reagan destroyed the union, but he stopped short of challenging the fundamental right of unions to represent workers. The new assault goes further as the anti-union right seeks to end or drastically curb the very principle of collective bargaining itself.
     
  • Quest for democracy persists inside SEIU

    While attention is riveted on the bitter battle in California between the Service Employees International Union and the new National Union of Healthcare Workers, many SEIU members who are not involved in that conflict are convinced that their road to union reform remains inside the SEIU in a continuing campaign to democratize the union. And they can report some successes, notably in Massachusetts Local 888 and in California Local 521.At the SEIU convention in June last year, rank and filers from several locals came together in a reform caucus, SMART --- for SEIU Members Active for Reform Today. The caucus organized as a permanent body after the convention.

Web Links

  • The Rouge Forum

    "a group of educators, students, and parents seeking a democratic society. We are concerned about questions like these: How can we teach against racism, national chauvinism and sexism in an increasingly authoritarian and undemocratic society? How can we gain enough real power to keep our ideals and still teach--or learn? Whose interests shall school serve in a society that is ever more unequal?"

  • Program for Change 2010-2030

    "a “strategic plan” for contingent faculty activism... We invite you read the document, and we also encourage you to provide feedback to its authors using the comment form and the linked response form. This will allow us to continue the conversation about how best to provide support for adjunct and contingent faculty efforts to reform higher education’s exploitative academic hiring practices.

  • New Faculty Majority (NFM)

    "New Faculty Majority: The National Coalition for Adjunct and Contingent Equity is a new, independent national organization for adjunct and contingent faculty in all disciplines and at any public or private university, college or community college in the US."

  • Adjunct Nation

    "Whether you hold a full-time or part-time temporary teaching appointment, AdjunctNation.com, can get you plugged-in like no other on-line resource for temporary college faculty can! Our registered Web page users live and work all over the world! AdjunctNation.com hosts temporary faculty from around the world because we've got all the resources temporary faculty (all college faculty, really) need in one place."

    See also the Facebook page: 

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