Category: Take Action!
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Your negotiations team met with PCC administration on Tuesday, October 13. After we had expressed strong concerns about the last offer, we were hopeful. Yesterday the administration showed us they had the money to settle the contract—accepting our fair proposal—right then and there. They chose not to. Administration revealed new data indicating that the college’s…
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American Federation of Teachers has been trying to help change the rules on eligibility for unemployment benefits to better reflect the realities of our working lives. Here is a petition you can sign to support this effort. https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/give-adjuncts-fair-access-to-unemployment-benefits
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Adjunct faculty are the majority of teachers in higher education now. With the new emphasis on free community college, along with talk of outcomes-based funding from the state, the question must be asked: Are U.S. colleges and universities ready for these challenges? You can help answer that question by participating in a new survey on…
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Organizing For Action, President Obama’s nonprofit, recently began outreach to generate support for new rules on pay for overtime. This (of course) is great BUT won’t help any of the term-by-term contingent workers in the academic labor force. You can add comments describing YOUR work reality, by clicking on the link below. (See an example…
Michele Marden for FFAP Executive VP 