1. Central Michigan Nontenure-Track Faculty Vote Overwhelmingly for Union
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Mount Pleasant, MI—Nontenure-track faculty at Central Michigan University voted overwhelmingly Friday, August 20 for union representation, and gained the right to negotiate job security, healt

2. U.S. News Fails Again
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...2009) 1582 Full-time faculty (76%) 500 Part-time faculty (24%) Total: 2082  University of Michigan-Ann Arbor Department of Education (IPEDS) (2007) 5129 Full-time faculty (52%) ...

3. Rent-A-Prof
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...shtenaw Community College's plan to contract out the hiring of adjunct faculty to a temp agency. The Michigan 2-year institution is expecting to move 400 part-time instructors for non-credit ...

4. Non Tenure-Track Faculty at Ferris State Vote "Yes" For Union
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...he Ferris Nontenure-Track Faculty Organization (FNTFO) as a collective bargaining agent affiliated with AFT Michigan, AFL-CIO. Eligible to vote were approximately 70 non tenure-track faculty wh...

5. Agreement Reached at CMU!
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On a day that was to see Michigan labor activists descend on Mount Pleasant for a rally, marching, a sit-in, and pickets, an agreement on the composition of the bargaining unit was reached between t

6. Nontenure Track Faculty at Central Michigan Set to Turn Up the Heat
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We have been reporting for some time now about the incredibly uncooperative administration at Central Michigan University that continues to refuse to allow all nontenure track faculty have a voice i

7. Eastern Michigan Adjunct Lecturers Vote in the Union
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By greater than a 5 to 1 margin, Eastern Michigan University adjunct lecturers have voted to affiliate with the Eastern Michigan University Federation of Teachers (EMUFT), an affiliate of AFT Michig

8. Bringing Contingent Faculty Issues to the U.S. Social Forum
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... often the first to be laid off when university budgets are trimmed. Today, however, momentum is growing in Michigan and internationally for unionization.  "In Michigan alone, thousan...

9. Central Michigan U. Threatens to Arrest Union Activists
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Things are getting unnecessarily tense in Mt. Pleasant, MI as the administration at Central Michigan University threatened last week to arrest faculty activists and their supporters during a sit-in

10. Ferris State Contingent Faculty Move to an Election
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As we have been reporting , a number of contingent faculty are working toward forming unions in Michigan.  Today, we are happy to report that the Ferris State Nontenure-track Faculty Organizati

11. EMU Persuaded by Union that All Contingent Faculty Deserve a Vote
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As we reported earlier, Michigan is a hotbed of higher ed organizing activity this spring. Now, the fruits of those efforts are starting to blossom--in some gardens. Eastern Michigan Universi

12. Central Michigan University Still Needs an Education
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... letters from supporters from around the country, members of The Union of Teaching Faculty (UTF) at Central Michigan University (CMU) have yet to hear if they will be able to vote for union representa...

13. Send Letter of Support for Kirsten Herold
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...ck, we told you about the dismissal of Dr. Kirsten Herold, an 18-year veteran lecturer at the University of Michigan.  The Lecturers' Employee Organization (LEO), which represents all faculty...

14. Tell Central Michigan University to Leave No Lecturers Behind
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Instructors at Central Michigan University want the chance to vote on the question of union representation and they need you to send a message of support. A majority of the group of roughly 400 full

15. Michigan Lecturers Reach Out to President Obama
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...ent speaker will be President Obama, who will address this year's graduating class at the University of Michigan and receive an Honorary Doctor of Laws Degree. Meanwhile, the Lecturers' ...

16. One Down, Two to Go: Great Lakes Bargaining Update
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Last week we updated you on all of the ongoing contingent faculty organizing activity in Michigan.  This week, we focus in on the ongoing negotiations at three other Michigan institutions:&nbsp

17. Great Lakes Organizing Update
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We have been reporting on all the contingent faculty organizing activity up in Michigan including efforts to form unions at Eastern Michigan University, Central Michigan University and Ferris State

18. University of Michigan Dismisses Union Activist
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...gent faculty positions are.  Unfortunately, a reminder is what we just got thanks to the University of Michigan.  Last week, after 18 years of service to the university, Kirsten Herold, vice...

19. "Day of Action" Activities Deliver the Message
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...esource cutbacks. AFT Graduate Employees Organization locals participated in both sets of events. In Michigan, education supporters rallied at Wayne State University and in Lansing. Both gather...

20. CMU Nontenure-Track Faculty Join Contingent Faculty Union Movement in MI
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AFT Michigan continues its efforts to work with contingent faculty seeking to organize unions for better representation and more equitable working conditions.  This time it is a majority of the

21. Ferris State University Nontenure-Track Faculty File for Union Representation
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Nontenure-track faculty at Ferris State University in Big Rapids, MI have filed with the Michigan Employment Relations Commission (MERC) a representation petition and membership cards for a union re

22. Kirtland CC Shelves Idea to Privatize Adjunct Faculty Members
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...ecializes in placing substitute teachers. The 39 full-time faculty at KCC are represented by the AFT Michigan, but adjuncts have no union. KCC Federation of Teachers vice president Kevin Baughn...

23. The Research Keeps Coming In
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...unity College Survey of Student Engagement, from the Center for the Education of Women at the University of Michigan, from John Bound, Michael Lovenheim, and Sarah Turner (for the National Bureau of E...

24. Higher Ed's Race to the Bottom
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...0,000 a year would be furloughed four days of pay and  top administrators would take a 10-day pay cut. Michigan's governor is bracing residents for 25 percent cuts to state public universitie...

25. A Year-end Welcome to All Who Joined Us This Year
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...Cuyamaca Community College District in CA Graduate Employees at Florida State University Lecturers at Michigan State University Graduate Employees at Central Michigan University Adjunct Fa...

26. Eastern Michigan Part-time Faculty Seek a Union Voice
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Part-time lecturers at Eastern Michigan University have filed for a representation election with the Michigan Employment Relations Commission (MERC). A majority of these lecturers have joined the Ea

27. Graduate employees unite!
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...raduate employees affiliated with the American Federation of Teachers will be descending upon East Lansing, Michigan for four days of training, information sharing, and networking, all part of the All...

28. Lions and Badgers and Unions, Oh My!
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...d once you start looking at the institutions where graduate employees and contingent faculty are organized (Michigan, University of California, NYU, University of Washington, Kansas, Illinois, and on ...

29. Support Striking Faculty at Oakland University
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...agreement and classes have resumed.  Thanks to all who showed their support for the faculty. AFT Michigan and the Michigan labor community are actively supporting a striking American Associ...

30. Contracting out adjuncts? Don’t go there!
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...ave to make payments to the state retirement fund. As a story in Inside Higher Ed describes, for adjuncts, Michigan requires colleges and universities to put 16.94 percent of payroll cost into the st...