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Contingent Faculty Committee Blog

Unionization and Collective bargaining in higher education – Newsletter from Hunter College center, November, 2016

Here’s the November installment of The National Center E-Note, a monthly electronic newsletter containing research and analysis relevant to unionization and collective bargaining

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Unionization and Collective bargaining in higher education – Newsletter from Hunter College center, October, 2016

The National Center E-Note is a monthly electronic newsletter containing research and analysis relevant to unionization and collective bargaining in higher education and

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How Community-College Faculty Organized a Strike and Scored a Contract

By Michael McCown. For the first time in its 40-year history, the union of full- and part-time faculty at City College of San

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Contingent Academic Labor, Special Issue of Working USA

The September 2015 special issue of Working USA is dedicated to “Contingent Academic Labor: The Way Forward.” All of the articles in the

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Claire Goldstene, “The Politics of Contingent Academic Labor”

Claire Goldstene’s 2012 article, “The Politics of Contingent Academic Labor,” in the NEA journal Thought & Action, argues that the shift to a

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Contingent Faculty Committee Blog OpEd

Michael McCown, “How Community-College Faculty Organized a Strike and Scored a Contract,” Portside (September 7, 2016)

For the first time in its 40-year history, the union of full- and part-time faculty at City College of San Francisco recently went

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Contingent Faculty Committee Blog

Recommendations made by LAWCHA’s contingent faculty committee

In March of 2015, LAWCHA’s recently formed ad hoc committee on contingent faculty issued its first report and set of recommendations. This was

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Welcome to the Contingent Faculty Committee Blog

Welcome to LAWCHA’s blog on contingent faculty and contingent labor! This blog offers an opportunity to share updates, scholarship, opinions, questions, links, and

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