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Post-Doctoral Scholar Position, Center for Global Workers’ Rights

1/9/2017

 
The School of Labor and Employment Relations at The Pennsylvania State University invites applications for the position of Post-Doctoral Scholar with the Center for Global Workers’ Rights. This is a twelve-month position that begins on August 11, 2017. For more details, including how to apply, click here. 

LAWCHA Statement on Collective Bargaining for All Faculty

1/9/2017

 
The Executive Committee, after consultation with the LAWCHA Board of Directors, has approved the following statement encouraging ALL FACULTY to exercise their right to collective bargaining. The statement was drafted by the Contingent Faculty Committee in response to the recent statement by the Organization of American Historians recommending collective bargaining for adjunct and contingent faculty. The full LAWCHA statement with supporting appendices is here: http://lawcha.org/wordpress/2016/12/17/lawcha-statement-collective-bargaining-faculty/. Please circulate.


LAWCHA Statement on Collective Bargaining for All Faculty

The Labor and Working Class History Association (LAWCHA) applauds and endorses the Organization of American Historians (OAH) “Statement on Collective Bargaining and Part-Time, Adjunct, and Contingent History Faculty.”

According to the National Center for the Study of Collective Bargaining in Higher Education and in the Professions, roughly 25 percent of all college and university faculty in the United States were represented by labor unions in 2011. Studies of faculty collective bargaining agreements, and testimony from faculty who belong to labor unions, indicate that both tenure track and non-tenure track faculty benefit from participating in collective bargaining.

Collective bargaining improves shared governance for all faculty by increasing budget transparency, and by creating agreements over faculty salaries and working conditions that tend to be more specific and legally binding than faculty codes. (See Appendix)

The material benefits of collective bargaining are also significant. A 2012 survey by the Coalition on the Academic Workforce found that contingent faculty represented by labor unions have a median wage that is 25 percent higher than their non-union peers, as well as substantially increased access to health benefits, retirement plans, seniority rights and paid service. In addition, a study of collective bargaining’s impact on part-time lecturers has shown that it creates “better working conditions that structurally support educational quality.”

THEREFORE LAWCHA strongly encourages all faculty to exercise their right to bargain collectively with their employers, encourages other professional associations to support this right, and encourages colleges and universities to remain neutral when faculty discuss whether to join labor unions and which unions to join.*

APPROVED by LAWCHA Executive Committee December 11, 2016 after consultation with the Board of Directors


James N. Gregory
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Professor, Department of History
University of Washington
Seattle, WA 98195-3560
http://faculty.washington.edu/gregoryj

President, Labor and Working Class History Association http://lawcha.org/

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