Thursday, May 22, 2014

Adjunct Faculty Desperately Seeking a Union at Gonzaga University, Spokane, WA May 22, 2014

"Adjunct professors often work at more than one college. Kinder-Pyle, for example, teaches at Eastern Washington University as well as GU. His annual salary from the private college is about $11,000. EWU pays him about $22,000."

http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2014/may/22/gu-adjuncts-plan-first-faculty-union/

Wednesday, May 7, 2014

HARLEY-RIDING FORMER TEACHER RAILS AGAINST COLLEGE SYSTEM May 05, 2014

HARLEY-RIDING FORMER TEACHER RAILS AGAINST COLLEGE SYSTEM

http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2014/May/05/tp-harley-riding-former-teacher-rails-against/3/?#article-copy

"He has no affection for teachers’ unions. He believes in the time he was a member, they used adjunct teachers as bargaining chips in negotiations — i.e., they would threaten to get a better deal for adjuncts, and then trade that threat for increased benefits for tenured faculty.