BOOM! We went to Tampa today for the Adjunct Day of Action with some civil disobedience. Instead, WE LAUNCHED THE VERY FIRST UNION FOR ADJUNCTS IN THE STATE OF FLORIDA. Hillsborough Community College adjuncts will unionize with the Service Employees International Union. Cards are being distributed for signing, Letters of support are being signed! The scheduled solidarity event became a history making meeting with signs and a banner (with speakers).
Editor’s Note: image retrieved March 26, 2015 from Faculty Forward Network Florida on Facebook. FFNF PSA copy-edited for style, clarity and to add links for additional information.
The Master of Ceremony, none other than C. Abraham Bellamy, introduced all the incredibly terrific speakers, which included adjunct faculty, Fightfor15, Child Care Workers, and yes, students! Tears flowed let me tell you! Hillsborough adjunct Eric Fiske identified the day that he had ENOUGH. That when many of us here met him: he spoke out on National Adjunct Walkout Day and was in the news.
The SEIU union rep. on the ground, Ashley Renner from TN, who’s never lost a campaign, was there. So was Becky Killik, the one and only organizer who has been there from DAY ONE. Both just returned from their BIG Duke University WIN. Once the 30% of cards are signed, Hillsborough adjuncts and their organizer are on the way to having the first adjunct faculty contract in the state of Florida. In the deepest Deep South. Pictures are pending.
Organizers Ashley Renner and Becky Killik are already strategizing their next move. A very large university looks promising. CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL OF THE ADJUNCTS ON THE WEST COAST of FLORIDA, ALL THEIR SUPPORTERS and the wonderful, tireless SEIU ORGANIZERS.
SPD ADJUNCTS WHOSE WORK WE CELEBRATE / WE STAND IN SOLIDARITY WITH
It's an awful time in the the higher education system. With less and less money, no job security at this condensary, and health insurance a luxury, everyone's institutional fatigue is so so deep. Well, whatever. We at SPD stand in solidarity with every poet-adjunct toiling and unionizing and doing the work of trying to teach, survive, fight and do right by each other all at once. Contracts may be precarious but poetry books will last forever (lol). With admiration, we give four million ratemyprofessor.com chilli peppers to each of you.
Support the fight for adjunct unions / activism (reading this is a good start) and remember to support their creative labor by reading their work.
1. Stephanie Young
2. David Buuck
3. Rebekah Lael Edwards
4. Steven Zultanski
5. Barbara Henning
6. Patrick Durgin
7. Anna Moschovakis
8. Ariel Goldberg
9. Truong Tran
10. Matt Shears
11. Carrie Murphy
12. Kate Durbin
13. Ed Steck
14. Anselm Berrigan
15. Jared Schickling
16. Monica McClure
17. Jeff Alessandrelli
18. Donna de la Perriere
19. Dodie Bellamy
20. Kevin Killian
21. Barbara Jane Reyes
22. Clint Margrave
23. Jeffrey Morgan
24. Sara Nicholson
25. Matthew Henriksen
26. Susana Gardner
27. Suzanne Scanlon
28. Kevin Varrone
29. Ryan Eckes
30. Laura Neuman
31. Brian Blanchfield
Know an adjunct with an SPD book? We'd like to celebrate them and their work. Email us at [email protected] and we'll add them to the list.
RAGING MONDAY! Kevin Mahoney and Rick Smith Talk about PASSHE's Underhanded Plans to Hike Tuition & the Kick Off to National Adjunct Action Week | February 23, 2015
RAGING MONDAY! Kevin Mahoney and Rick Smith Talk about PASSHE’s Underhanded Plans to Hike Tuition & the Kick Off to National Adjunct Action Week | February 23, 2015
Kevin MahoneyEditor Zero and founder of the Raging Chicken Press lays out the recent plot by University President to raise tuition while not raising tuition. Both ways the students and their families lose. Also, it’s National Adjunct Action Week! Today, Temple University Adjuncts took it to the streets to demand the university quit union-busting and let 1,300 adjuncts vote for a union. It was a…
#NAAW | Temple University Adjuncts Take to the Streets Demanding Admin to Stop Union-Busting and Let Adjunct Vote for Unionization
#NAAW | Temple University Adjuncts Take to the Streets Demanding Admin to Stop Union-Busting and Let Adjunct Vote for Unionization
Today is the first day of National Adjunct Action Week and Temple University adjuncts started the week off with a march outside the university’s provost office. Last December, Temple University adjuncts filed for authorization with the Pennsylvania Labor Relations Board clearing the way for an official union vote on campus this spring semester. Or so they thought.
SIGN THE PETITIONS IN SUPPORT OF CCA ADJUNCT FACULTY!
Now is the time to show our support for the adjunct faculty unionization effort and to let the administration know that we care about the future of this institution and community. Sign and share these petitions:
