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512799 NLFXXX10.1177/1095796013512799New Labor ForumWeinbaum research-article2013 On the Contrary New Labor Forum 2014, Vol 23(1) 19 –20 Eve S. Weinbaum and Copyright © 2013, The Murphy Institute, City University of New York Reprints and permissions: Max Page Respond sagepub.com/journalsPermissions.nav DOI: 10.1177/1095796013512799 nlf.sagepub.com 1 1 Eve S. Weinbaum and Max Page Keywords contingent workers, collective bargaining, education, labor, unorganized workers, trade unions We started with some key assumptions: adjunct officers. And the statewide union has made faculty are overworked and underpaid; they adjuncts’ issues a legislative priority, winning deserve job security, benefits, and an equal voice; health benefits for instructors who teach at more and national faculty unions have not done enough than one public university. to fight the exploitation of contingent workers. It is wrong to conflate the interests of full- So what is to be done? Ivan Greenberg approv- time faculty and administrators. Tenure-system ingly cites Keith Hoeller’s argument that new faculty are increasingly unable to do the kind of adjuncts’ organizations should “not hesitate to teaching we believe in, pressured to focus on confront and to compete with the unions for ideas “revenue generation” rather than our research and members.” Their plan is to pit full-time faculty interests,
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Published: Jan 1, 2014
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