The Adjunct Voice

The Gig Economy

It is with much interest that I read The San Diego Union-Tribune Sunday business feature on the “gig economy.” Gig workers contract with employers one-on-one to provide specified services be they delivering fast-food meals or taxi services in one’s private vehicle. They are paid for each service they provide, such as one meal delivery or one across-town […]

SS Fairness: New Senate Bill Needs Our Support!

Action Alert #94 – Why Do We Do This? Jun 05, 2017 02:09 pm | SS Fairness New Senate bill needs our support! You may be wondering, with all the ongoing upheavals that are changing the nature of our governmental systems, why we keep demanding the repeal of the Government Pension Offset and the Windfall Elimination […]

Action Alert: Support AB 406!

Assembly Bill 406 (McCarty) will prohibit charters from operating as, or being operated by, a for-profit corporation, a for-profit Educational Management Organization (EMO) or a for-profit Charter Management Organization (CMO). Why is this important? Corporations are siphoning off hundreds of millions of dollars of public money away from students for profits. These for-profit corporations pay […]

ACR 32 – 75/25, part-time faculty equity and support,

Hello Faculty, If you can find the time, please make a simple phone call to the Assembly Appropriations Committee—(916) 319-2081—in support of ACR 32 (Medina). This FACCC-sponsored resolution is currently on the Suspense File in the Assembly Appropriations Committee not because it actually costs money—it’s a non-binding resolution that calls upon the Chancellor’s Office to […]