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The Power & Challenge of Union Democracy in a Time of Contingent Labor & Crisis

Arnie Schoenberg Posted in Actions, Stories, Voices, News, Union DemocracyLeave a Comment on The Power & Challenge of Union Democracy in a Time of Contingent Labor & Crisis

Register now for this Zoom event sponsored by Higher Education Labor United! March 16, 2025 02:00 PM Join HELU’s Contingency Task Force (CTF) on Sunday evening, March 16, 5-7pm ET, for a discussion about building internal union democracy as a way of unleashing worker power across higher ed. How can encouraging inclusive and participatory union […]

Your thinking is bad and you should feel bad. If you’ve been given this card it’s because the things you said were so full of fallacies and dodgy logic that it would take too long to identify all of them. Please go to yourfallacy.is and familiarize yourself with all the things.

Argument Resource

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Having trouble getting through to people? Does self-interest cloud their thinking? Try giving them a Logical Fallacy or Cognitive Bias time-out card! The Thinking Shop will send anonymous decks to that stubborn Department Chair, Union Boss, or Politician. Or better yet, download them here for free, cut out a few specific problems, and add the […]

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Urge Governor Newsom to increase the workload cap for part-time community college faculty

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Please take a moment to sign the CFT letter urging Governor Newsom to sign AB 375, which would formally increase the workload cap available to part-time faculty from 67% up to 85% of a full-time faculty workload in California’s community colleges. Under the current law, too many part-time faculty members are forced to work in […]

Strike Two against SD City College: Justice Department Issues “Right to Sue Letter” after EEOC Finds “Reasonable Cause” in Civil Rights Violations Complaint against Languages Department Chair Rosalinda Sandoval and Division Dean Trudy Gerald

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by Leonardo Rodriguez January 20, 2020             In a shocking development on this case, first reported by SDAFA on January 26, 2018 (https://www.sdafa.org/city-language-adjuncts/), on January 13, 2020, the Department of Justice issued a “right to sue” letter to Adjunct Spanish Professor Salvador Gonzalez, one of four adjunct professors in the Languages Department who, over the […]

SDCCD CBA: We did it!

Arnie Schoenberg Posted in Actions, Stories, Voices, AFT Contract, Contracts at San Diego County Community Colleges, Job Security2 Comments on SDCCD CBA: We did it!

Jim Mahler released his tentative Contract Bargaining Agreement (CBA) for the San Diego Community College District (SDCCD), and it’s an overall win for adjuncts! No more Chairs and Deans trying to scare us out of applying for job security (PoA); automatic Our PoA wait-time goes down from 8 semesters back to 6 The ability to […]

Adjunct Debt Relief

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From Jim Mahler: Dear Colleagues, I am writing to request that you take a few minutes to write a letter of support for Assembly Bill 463 – the CFT-sponsored community college part-time faculty student debt bill. The bill is currently on the governor’s desk. We need as many letters as possible to encourage the governor to […]