Posted Fri, Aug 19, 4:49 p.m.

Thank for mentioning that the part-time/adjunct faculty will suffer the employment brunt of this, even though many of them have been working longer than their tenured colleagues. Perhaps you should also mention that the unions' efforts have been mostly aimed at preserving tenured positions when they are threatened. The sad ...

Posted Fri, May 6, 12:21 a.m.

If the Seattle Community College union is the best in WA that Mr. Jeffery can cite, I'd really hate to work at any other college. I'm a Seattle CC PT teacher and can attest that the union attracts very little activism here (shortly before the AFT-WA conference, the Seattle union ...

Posted Thu, Mar 17, 8:28 a.m.

Good teachers' unionism would have the main goal of getting all teachers under the same contract terms. Unfortunately, that isn't happening. The full-time tenured teachers, who by-and-large control the college teacher unions, are happy to have the "cushion" of the part-timers, and are often actually the de facto supervisors of ...