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Early Registration is Open for 46th Annual National Conference
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Conference Theme
COLLECTIVE BARGAINING AFTER JANUS
Keynote Speaker: Paul Krugman
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Paul Krugman is best known to the general public as an opinion columnist for The New York Times, a position he's held since 2000.
In his academic life, Krugman is a Distinguished Professor in Economics at the City University of New York (CUNY) Graduate Center, a core faculty member at the Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality, and Luxembourg Income Study (LIS) Senior Scholar.
Krugman was the sole recipient of the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences in 2008 for his work on international trade theory and the geographic distribution of economic activity. In addition to the Nobel, in 1991 Krugman received the John Bates Clark Medal from the American Economic Association, an award given every two years to a top economist under the age of 40. The King of Spain presented him with the Asturias Award in 2004, considered the European Pulitzer Prize.
Krugman is Professor Emeritus of Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School, from which he retired in 2015. He has served on the faculties of MIT, Yale and Stanford. He is a Fellow of the Econometric Society and a member of the Group of Thirty. He has served as a consultant to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, the United Nations, as well as to foreign countries including Japan, Portugal and the Philippines.
He has been a contributor to ABC-TV's "This Week" with George Stephanopoulos and appears on Bloomberg Television, Business Insider, NPR and CNN, to name just a few.
Author of 27 books and over 200 published professional articles, Krugman has written for non-economists as well. Before joining the staff of The New York Times, his work appeared in Fortune, Slate, Harvard Business Review, Foreign Policy, The New Republic and Newsweek.
Krugman's approach to economics is reaching a new generation of college students. He and his wife Robin Wells have coauthored college textbooks on Micro and Macroeconomics that rank in the top-selling economics textbooks used in American colleges today.
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Registration Information
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Early Bird Special-$310: includes one conference registration with admission to all event activities and additional attendee(s) for a discounted rate of $238. The special rate ends on December 28, 2018.
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Confirmed Panels and Workshops
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Plenary Presentation: The History of Right to Work from the First Gilded Age to Janus with Cedric de Leon, Director and Associate Professor, UMass Amherst Labor Center, Elizabeth Tandy Shermer, Assistant Professor, Loyola University Chicago, Chad E. Pearson, Professor of History, Collin College, and Sophia Z. Lee, Professor of Law and History, University of Pennsylvania Law School, Moderator and Presenter.
The Economic Impact of Right to Work (panel in formation) with Fred Floss, Professor and Chair, Department of Economics and Finance, SUNY Buffalo State University and Fiscal Policy Institute Senior Fellow, Heidi Shierholz, Senior Economist and Director of Policy, Economic Policy Institute, Cherrie Nicole Bucknor, Ph.D Student, Harvard University, and Jeffery Frumkin, Associate Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs, University of Michigan, Moderator.
Community Colleges, Collective Bargaining, and Right to Work with Deborah Williams, NEA Faculty Association President and Lead Negotiator, Johnson County Community College, Terry Calaway, former President, Johnson County Community College, Lee Cross,Trustee, Johnson County Community College, Martin Balinsky, Vice President and Chief Negotiator, United Faculty of Florida-Tallahassee Community College, and DeWayne Sheaffer, President, NEA National Council for Higher Education, Moderator.
Panel: Shared Governance in a Post-Janus World with Carl Levine, Levy Ratner, P.C., Holly Stern, General Counsel, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Saerom Park, Associate General Counsel, SEIU, Joe Ambash, Fisher & Phillips LLP, and Catherine Cleaver, Executive Director, AAUP, Adelphi University, Moderator.
Mending Fences and Building Bridges: A Labor-Management Dialogue on Cultural and Institutional Change with Daniel Greenstein, Chancellor, Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education, Kenneth Mash, President, Association of Pennsylvania State College and University Faculties, and Scott Jaschik, Inside Higher Ed, Moderator.
The Adjunct Faculty Experience: Is What We "Know" Correct? (panel in formation) with David P. Richardson, Managing Director of Research, TIAA Institute, Paul Yakoboski, Senior Economist, TIAA Institute, and Maria Maisto, New Faculty Majority, Commentator.
Reaching First Graduate Student Employee Contracts at Brandeis and Tufts with Lisa Lynch, Provost, Brandeis University, Matt Dauphin, Higher Education Coordinator, SEIU Local 509, Lili Palacios-Baldwin, Associate General Counsel, Tufts University, Desiree Murphy, Morgan, Brown & Joy, LLP, and Vimal Patel, Chronicle of Higher Education, Moderator.
Bargaining for the Common Good in Higher Education with Malini Cadambi Daniel, SEIU Director for Higher Education, Daniel J. Julius, Senior Vice President and Provost, New Jersey City University, Barry Miller, Senior Policy Advisor on Labour Relations, York University, Liz Perlman, Executive Director, AFSCME, University of California Employees, Gary Rhoades, Professor and Director, Center for the Study of Higher Education, University of Arizona, and Marilyn Sneiderman, Professor and Director, Center for Innovation in Worker Organization, Rutgers University School of Management and Labor Relations, Moderator.
Book Session: Henry Reichman, The Future of Academic Freedom (Johns Hopkins University Press, March 2019) (panel in formation), with Kent D. Syverud, Chancellor and President, Syracuse University, Jennifer Eagan, President, California Faculty Association, Lili Palacios-Baldwin, Associate General Counsel, Tufts University, and Henry Reichman, Chair, AAUP Committee on Academic Freedom and Tenure.
Investigating and Handling Employee Discipline with Letitia F. Silas, Associate General Counsel for Labor Relations, Howard University, Joshua D. Nadreau, Fisher Phillips, Kathy Sheffield, Director of Representation, California Faculty Association, Pat Domaratz, Labor Relations Specialist, UUP, and Nancy E. Hoffman, Arbitrator, Moderator.
Arbitrators' Perspectives on the Handling of Disciplinary Issues with Homer C. La Rue, Labor Arbitrator, Mediator, and Professor of Law, Howard University School of Law, Haydeé Rosario, Labor Arbitrator and Mediator, John Woods, Labor Arbitrator, Mediator, and Ombuds, and Sarah Miller Espinosa, Labor Arbitrator, Mediator, and Ombuds, Moderator.
Racial and Economic Equity in Higher Education with Sara Goldrick-Rab, Professor, Higher Education Policy & Sociology, Temple University, Catharine Bond Hill, Managing Director, Ithaka S+R, Mark Huelsman, Associate Director, Policy & Research, Demos, and Sameer Gadkaree, Senior Program Officer, Joyce Foundation, Moderator.
Challenges and Opportunities of the Metro-Strategy in a Post-Janus World (panel in formation) with John C. Cavanaugh, President & CEO, Consortium of Universities of the Washington Metropolitan Area, Anne McLeer, PhD, Director of Higher Education, SEIU Local 500, Patricia McGuire, President, Trinity Washington University, and Maria Figueroa, Director, Labor and Policy Research at the Worker Institute, ILR School, Cornell University, Moderator.
Peer-Based Faculty Evaluation v. Student Evaluation of Teaching with Leah Akins, Professor of Engineering and Technology, Dutchess Community College, Laura Murphy, Professor of History, Dutchess Community College, Henry Hornstein, Associate Professor, Department of Business and Economics, Algoma University, Sarah Zeller-Berkman, Academic Director, Youth Studies Program and Director of Intergenerational Change Initiative, CUNY School of Professional Studies and Director, Youth Studies Initiatives, John F. Kennedy, Jr. Institute for Worker Education, and Alexandra Matish, Interim Director, Academic Human Resources, University of Michigan, Moderator.
Title IX Revisited with John T. Rose, Dean of Diversity, Hunter College, CUNY, Rana M. Jaleel, Assistant Professor in Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies, University of California, Davis, Donna E. Young, President William McKinley Distinguished Professor of Law and Public Policy, Albany Law School, and Risa Lieberwitz, Professor of Labor and Employment Law, Cornell ILR, and AAUP General Counsel, Moderator.
Sexual Harassment in Higher Education: Understanding Root Causes and Developing Labor-Management Solutions with Ana Avendaño, Vice President for Labor Engagement, United Way, Eve Weinbaum, Professor University of Massachusetts, Labor Center Amherst, Janet Elie Faulkner, Faulkner Legal, Frazier Benya, Senior Program Officer, Committee on Women in Science, Engineering, and Medicine, National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine,
and Liesl Zwicklbauer, Associate Vice Chancellor for Employee Relations, SUNY, Moderator.
Faculty Compensation in Public Higher Education with Stephen G. Katsinas, Professor, Higher Education and Political Science, Director, Education Policy Center, at the University Alabama and Nathaniel J. Bray, Professor, Higher Education Administration and Associate Director, Education Policy Center at the University of Alabama; Jacob Trull, Stephanie Paul and Michael Malley, Graduate Students, Education Policy Center at the University of Alabama; and Jacob Apkarian, Assistant Professor of Sociology, York College, CUNY, Moderator.
Transformational Bargaining: How the Lecturers' Union at the University of Michigan Built Sufficient Power to Dramatically Improve Member Compensation with Ian Robinson, President, Lecturers' Employee Organization, AFT, Local 6244, University of Michigan, Kirsten Herold, Vice-President, Lecturers' Employee Organization, AFT, Local 6244, University of Michigan, Michael Eagen, Associate Provost for Academic Personnel, University of Massachusetts, Commentator, Theodore Curry, Associate Provost, Associate VP, Michigan State University, Commentator, and David Cecil, Executive Director, United Academics, AFT-AAUP, University of Oregon, Moderator.
Conflict and Cooperation in the Neoliberal University: The Impact of Changing Labour Processes on Canadian Universities with Stephanie Ross, Associate Professor, School of Labour Studies, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, Larry Savage, Professor, Department of Labour Studies, Brock University, St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada, David Robinson, Executive Director, Canadian Association of University Teachers, Commentator, and Sara Slinn, Associate Dean (Research and Institutional Relations) & Associate Professor, Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, Commentator.
Legal Issues in Higher Education: Annual Review of Court and Administrative Developments with Natasha Baker, Hirschfeld Kraemer LLP, Beth Margolis, Gladstein Reif & Meginniss, Aaron Nisenson, Senior Counsel, AAUP, and Michael Loconto, College Counsel, Curry College, Moderator.
Workshop for Administrators: Collective Bargaining and Contract Implementation with Nicholas DiGiovanni, Morgan, Brown & Joy, LLP, Karen Stubaus, Vice President for Academic Affairs, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, and Margaret Winters, Former Provost, Professor Emerita - French and Linguistics, Wayne State University.
Workshop for Academic Labor: Membership Mobilization and Collective Bargaining in an Open Shop Environment with Penny Lewis, Associate Professor of Labor Studies, CUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies and PSC Vice President Senior Colleges, Thomas Auxter, former President, United Faculty of Florida, and Kim Cook, Extension Associate Faculty, Cornell ILR.
Workshop: Bargaining Over Health Insurance in Higher Education with Larry Singer, Senior Vice President, Segal Consulting, Joel Solomon, Senior Policy Analyst, NEA, Earl Redding, Roemer Wallens Gold & Mineaux LLP, and Debbie Bell, Executive Director, PSC, CUNY, Moderator.
Workshop by SUNY SAIL Institute: Discovering My Leadership Voice with Scott Vinciguerra, Leadership Development Associate, SUNY Strategic and Academic Innovative Leadership Institute.
Workshop by SUNY SAIL Institute: Assertive Communications: Leading Difficult Conversations on Campus with Scott Vinciguerra, Leadership Development Associate, SUNY Strategic and Academic Innovative Leadership Institute.
We will be providing updates concerning other confirmed panels and workshops in the upcoming monthly newsletters and on our website.
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Post-Janus Lawsuit Challenging Exclusive Representation Dismissed
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Reisman v. Associated Faculties of the University of Maine, 18-CV-307 (D. Maine)
United States District Court Judge John D. Levy issued a
decision and order on December 3, 2018 dismissing a lawsuit filed by Jonathan Reisman, a University of Maine economics professor, which challenged exclusive representation under Maine's public sector collective bargaining law.
In his lawsuit, Reisman alleged that the grant of exclusive representation to the union certified to represent faculty at the University of Maine violated his First Amendment
rights. Reisman's claim was based, in part, on
dicta in Justice Alito's majority decision in
Janus v. AFSCME describing exclusive representation as a substantial restriction on the rights of individual employees.
In dismissing the lawsuit, Judge Levy relied on the Supreme Court's decision in
The organization behind the lawsuits brought by Reisman and Uradnik, the Buckeye Institute, has already announced its intention to appeal. The Buckeye Institute is a conservative advocacy organization that promotes free-market ideology and policies.
In related news, the conservative American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) has announced its post-Janus state legislative agenda seeking to expand "right to work" and mandatory recertification election laws.
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Univ. of Chicago: Unfair Labor Practice Found for Failure to Bargain
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University of Chicago, NLRB Case No. 13-CA-217957
On December 4, 2018, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) issued a
decision finding that the University of Chicago had engaged in an unfair labor practice by refusing to collectively bargain with the Healthcare, Professional, Technical, Office, Warehouse and Mail Order Employees, Local 743, IBT. The NLRB decision granted motion for summary judgment by the NLRB General Counsel following the certification of IBT to represent a student worker bargaining unit at the university, and the university's refusal of negotiate.
In a footnote to the decision, the NLRB majority made clear its interest in revisiting the decision in
Columbia University, 364 NLRB No. 90 (2016), which found student workers to be employees under the National Labor Relations Act:
"Chairman Ring did not participate in the underlying representation proceeding. He agrees with his colleagues that the Respondent has not raised any litigable issue in this unfair labor practice proceeding and that summary judgment is appropriate, with the parties retaining their respective rights to litigate relevant issues on appeal. In a future appropriate proceeding, however, Chairman Ring would agree to consider
whether, and under what circumstances, students qualify as "employees" within the meaning of Sec. 2(3) of the Act. Members Kaplan and Emanuel note that they participated in prior stages of the underlying representation proceeding in which relitigation of the employee status issue was precluded. Like the Chairman, they have expressed an interest in considering, in a future appropriate proceeding, whether and
under what circumstances students qualify as "employees" under the Act."
As NLRB Chairman Ring underscored in the footnote, the University of Chicago now has the right to file a lawsuit in federal court challenging the certification of IBT to represent the student workers in the following at-issue bargaining unit:
Included: All hourly paid student employees of the University of Chicago Libraries, including students employed at the Joseph Regenstein Library, the Joe and Rika Mansueto Library, Eckhart Library, John Crerar Library, D'Angelo Law Library, and the Social Services Administration Library.
Excluded: All employees represented by other labor organizations and covered by other collective bargaining agreements, temporary employees, managerial
employees, guards, and professional employees and supervisor as defined in the National Labor Relations Act.
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Grinnell College: Student Workers Withdraw Representation Petition
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Grinnell College,
NLRB Case No.18-RC-228797
On December 6, 2018, following a representation election, the Union of Grinnell Student Dining Workers (UGSDW) was certified to represent the following unit of 796 student workers at Grinnell College:
Included: All student employment positions who were employed by the Employer who
had active logged work hours in payroll from September 16, 2018 to October 31, 2018.
Excluded: Positions in Dining Services, Service Work Learning positions, off-campus interns, Mentored Advanced Project (MAP) positions, non-student temporary employees, and supervisors and guards, as defined in the Act, as amended.
After issuance of the certification, Grinnell College filed a Request for Review with the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) seeking to challenge the Regional Director's decision finding that the at-issue student workers were employees under the National Labor Relations Act pursuant to Columbia University, 364 NLRB No. 90 (2016). In its pleading, Grinnell College argued that the at-issue student workers were distinguishable from the student workers at Columbia University. Alternatively, it argued that the Columbia University decision should be reversed.
Grinnell challenged the recent certification although it had accepted the May 2016 certification of UGSDW to represent another unit of student workers and negotiated a collective bargaining agreement with UGSDW.
In response to Grinnell's attempt to challenge the recent certification, UGSDW announced that it was withdrawing its petition to represent the larger unit. A union spokesperson explained that the withdrawal was based on a recognition that it was unlikely that it would win before the current NLRB, and the case could set a negative precedent for organizing efforts on other campuses.
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Elon University: SEIU Files Petition to Represent NTT Faculty
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Elon University, NLRB Case No. 10-RC-231745
On November 29, 2018, SEIU filed a petition with the National Labor Relations Board seeking to represent a unit of 260 part-time and full-time non-tenure track faculty at Elon University in North Carolina. If the petition leads to a certification, it would be the second private sector faculty unit represented by SEIU in North Carolina.
The following is the unit being sought in SEU's representation petition:
Included:
All part-time and full-time non-tenure-track employees of Elon University teaching at least one credit-bearing undergraduate course in the College of Arts and Science, School of Communications, School of Education, or Martha & Spencer Love School of Business (including but not limited to continuing-track faculty, lecturer-track faculty, visiting faculty, limited term faculty, adjunct faculty, instructors, and staff with non-tenure-track teaching assignments).
Excluded:
All other employees, all employees teaching online courses only, all administrators (including those with teaching assignments), managers, and supervisors as defined by the Act.
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South Florida State College: SEIU Seeks to Represent PT Adjunct Unit
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South Florida State College, FPERC Case No. RC-2018-044
On December 13, 2018, SEIU filed a representation petition seeking to represent a unit of approximately 115 part-time adjunct faculty at South Florida State College. The following is the proposed unit sought in the SEIU petition:
Included:
All part-time adjunct faculty employed by South Florida State College who teach at least one course at any of the following locations: Highlands Campus, DeSoto Campus, Hardee Campus, or Lake Placid Center
Excluded:
All tenured and tenure-track faculty, full-time faculty, employees covered by an existing collective bargaining agreement, faculty who teach only online courses, full-time employees of the College who also teach a class as an adjunct instructor, administrators, guards, all supervisory, managerial, and confidential employees, and all other employees of South Florida State College.
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Polk State College: SEIU Files to Represent PT Adjunct Unit
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Polk State College, FPERC Case No. RC-2018-043
On December 12, 2018, SEIU filed a representation petition seeking to represent a unit of approximately 100 part-time adjunct faculty at Polk State College. The following is the proposed unit in the SEIU petition:
Included:
All part-time adjunct faculty employed by Polk State College who teach at least one college credit course towards a degree.
Excluded:
All tenured and tenure-track faculty, full-time faculty, faculty who teach non-college-credit or non-degree courses, faculty who teach online courses through the virtual college, dual enrollment or high school adjunct faculty, full-time employees of the College who also teach a class as an adjunct instructor, employees covered by an existing collective bargaining agreement, administrators, guards, all supervisory, managerial, and confidential employees, and all other employees of Polk State College.
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Lake-Sumter State College: SEIU Petitions to Represent PT Adjuncts
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Lake-Sumter State College, FPERC Case No. RC-2018-042
On December 10, 2018, SEIU filed a representation petition seeking to represent a unit of approximately 40 part-time adjunct faculty at Lake-Sumter State College. The following is the proposed unit sought in the SEIU petition:
Included:
All part-time adjunct instructors employed by Lake-Sumter State College who teach at least one course at any of the following locations: Leesburg Campus, South Lake-Clermont Campus, or Sumter Campus
Excluded:
All tenured and tenure-track faculty, full-time faculty, employees covered by an existing collective bargaining agreement, faculty who teach only online courses, full-time employees of the College who also teach a class as an adjunct instructor, administrators, guards, all supervisory, managerial, and confidential employees, and all other employees of Lake-Sumter State College.
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St. Petersburg College: SEIU Files to Represent PT Adjuncts
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St. Petersburg College, FPERC Case No. RC-2018-041
On December 6, 2018, SEIU filed a representation petition seeking to represent a unit of approximately 472 part-time adjunct faculty at St. Petersburg College. The following is the proposed unit in the SEIU petition:
Included:
All part-time adjunct faculty employed by St. Petersburg College who teach at least one course at any of the following locations: St. Petersburg/Gibbs Campus, Clearwater Campus, Seminole Campus, Tarpon Springs Campus, District Office, Allstate Center, Downtown Center, Epicenter, Health Education Center, Midtown Center, and Veterinary Technology Center.
Excluded:
All tenured and tenure-track faculty, full-time faculty, employees covered by an existing collective bargaining agreement, faculty who teach only online courses, instructors for trainings operated by the Southeastern Public Safety Institute, full-time employees of the College who also teach a class as an adjunct instructor, administrators, guards, all supervisory, managerial, and confidential employees, and all other employees of St. Petersburg College.
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Florida Gateway College: SEIU Seeks to Represent Unit of PT Adjuncts
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Florida Gateway College, FPERC Case No. RC-2018-045
On December 14, 2018, SEIU filed a representation petition seeking to represent a unit of approximately 45 part-time adjunct faculty at Florida Gateway College. The following is the proposed unit sought in the SEIU petition:
Included:
All part-time adjunct faculty employed by Florida Gateway College who teach at least one college credit course towards a degree.
Excluded:
All tenured and tenure-track faculty, full-time faculty, faculty who teach non-college-credit or non-degree courses (including post-secondary vocational courses, certificate course, college prep courses, or continuing workforce courses), faculty who are required to have professional licenses, employees covered by an existing collective bargaining agreement, full-time employees of the College who also teach a class as an adjunct instructor, administrators, guards, all supervisory, managerial, and confidential employees, and all other employees of Florida Gateway College.
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Santa Fe College: SEIU Files to Represent PT Adjunct Unit
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Santa Fe College, FPERC Case No. RC-2018-046
On December 14, 2018, SEIU filed a representation petition seeking to represent a unit of approximately 304 part-time adjunct faculty at Santa Fe College. The following is the proposed unit sought in the SEIU petition:
Included:
All part-time adjunct instructors employed by Santa Fe College who teach at least one course at any of the following locations: Northwest Campus, Andrews Center, Blount Center, Davis Center, Kirkpatrick Center, Perry Center, or Watson Center.
Excluded:
All tenured and tenure-track faculty, full-time faculty, employees covered by an existing collective bargaining agreement, full-time employees of the College who also teach a class as an adjunct instructor, administrators, guards, all supervisory, managerial, and confidential employees, and all other employees of Santa Fe College.
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Chipola State College: SEIU Petitions for a Unit of PT Adjuncts
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Chipola State College, FPERC Case No. RC-2018-047
On December 14, 2018, SEIU filed a representation petition seeking to represent a unit of approximately 15 part-time adjunct faculty at Chipola State College. The following is the proposed unit sought in the SEIU petition:
Included:
All part-time adjunct faculty employed by Chipola College who teach at least one college credit course towards a degree.
Excluded:
All regular full-time faculty, faculty who teach non-college-credit or non-degree courses, faculty who teach only online courses, dual enrollment or high school adjunct faculty, employees covered by an existing collective bargaining agreement, full-time employees of the College who also teach a class as an adjunct instructor, administrators, guards, all supervisory, managerial, and confidential employees, and all other employees of Chipola College.
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MIAT College of Technology: IAM Files to Represent FT Instructors
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MIAT College of Technology, NLRB Case No. 07-RC-232329
On December 6, 2018, the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM), AFL-CIO (IAM) filed a representation petition seeking to represent approximately 22 full-time instructors at MIAT College of Technology. A Notice of Election has been issued by NLRB Region 7 scheduling the election for January 4, 2019
The following is the at-issue bargaining unit at MIAT College of Technology:
Included:
All full-time instructors, lead instructors, program coordinators, and learning resource coordinators employed by the Employer at its campus located at 2955 South Haggerty Road, Canton, Michigan, who were employed by the Employer during the payroll period ending November 30, 2018.
Excluded:
Part-time/adjunct instructors and all other noninstructional staff, office clerical employees, confidential employees, professional employees, administrative employees, technicians and assistants, managers, guards and supervisors as defined by the Act, and all other employees.
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University of Mississippi: CWA Seeks to Unionize Wall-to-Wall Unit
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United Campus Worker-CWA has announced the formation of a union at the University of Mississippi seeking to represent all university workers including faculty and non-academic employees. The campaign is an expansion of its organizing efforts in Tennessee higher education.
Unionization efforts that seek bargaining units of faculty and staff is reminiscent of the CIO strategy in the late 1940s, which led to first contracts for wall to wall units at
Howard University and the Hampton Institute. Like United Campus Worker's campaign at the University of Mississippi, the CIO organized faculty and staff in the 1940s without the benefit of an applicable collective bargaining law.
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Vanderbilt University: SEIU Withdraws Petition for NTT Faculty
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Vanderbilt University, NLRB Case No.
10-RC-193205
On November 26, 2018, SEIU requested to withdraw its petition to represent adjunct faculty at Vanderbilt University. The request was approved by the NLRB Region 10 Director on December 4., 2018.
At the time of the withdrawal, the university had two Requests for Review pending with the NLRB and SEIU had a motion pending seeking to have NLRB Member Emanuel recused. The SEIU petition had sought to represent approximately 377 full-time and part-time non-tenure track faculty at the university's College of Arts and Science, Peabody College of Education and Development, the Blair School of Music and the Divinity School.
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College of Saint Rose: SEIU Withdraw Petition for Visiting Faculty
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College of Saint Rose, NLRB Case No. 03-RC-231931
On December 3, 2018, SEIU filed a petition to represent a unit of 17 visiting faculty at the College of Saint Rose in Albany, New York. The petition sought a unit of "all Visiting Assistant Professors and Visiting Professors. The petition, however, was withdrawn a few days later on December 7, 2018.
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Universities and Colleges Employers Association
4th International Conference in London
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SAIL Institute Offering Workshops on Higher Education Leadership
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SUNY's SAIL Institute is a system-wide think tank and leadership development organization dedicated to advancing understanding and building human capacity in the areas of strategic, academic, and innovative leadership.
SAIL offers regular programs to build the capacity of leaders today so they can lead the institutions of tomorrow:
WINTER LEADERSHIP RETREAT
The intensive 3 day experience, designed specifically for higher education leaders, will provide an opportunity to focus on leadership skills and competencies in order for both the individual and campus to enjoy Sustainability in Leadership.
January 9-11, 2019 Renssealerville, New York
EXECUTIVE LEADERSHIP ACADEMY
The Executive Leadership Academy is designed for academic and administrative professionals with aspirational goals to advance to the highest level of leadership in higher education, specifically to secure presidential, vice presidential or other executive leadership positions in the next one to three years.
SUMMER LEADERSHIP RETREAT
SAIL's signature week long professional development program designed to enhance leadership skills, making SUNY's higher education leaders more effective on their campuses and preparing them to take on more responsibilities in the future.
July 29 - August 2, 2019, White Eagle Conference Center on Lake Moraine in Hamilton, New York
CIO LEADERSHIP ACADEMY
NYSERNet and the SAIL Institute have partnered to provide the award-winning CIO Leadership Academy to support aspiring and current CIOs and IT professionals develop and strengthen their leadership abilities.
STUDENT LEADERSHIP OPPORTUNITY
The SUNY Global Leader Experience is a student leadership development program offered in partnership with Common Purpose (based in the UK).
DEPARTMENT CHAIR SUMMIT
Being an effective department chair requires an individual to articulate and execute a vision for the future, understand their strengths and weakness as a leader, have a firm understanding of practical management skills, and serve as an effective boundary spanner between the faculty and the college administration. SAIL Department Chair Summits offers opportunity and resources to build the leadership capacity of current and future department chairs.
May 30 & 31, 2019 Renssealerville, New York
SUNY360
The SUNY360 is an online leadership skills inventory tool that is owned and offered by the SAIL Institute. It is one of the only 360 assessments specifically designed for higher education leaders.
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Job Posting: Research Librarian I at AFSCME
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AFSCME Research Librarian I
Applicants should send an email with an attached cover letter and resume to: recruiting@afscme.org. Include the position title, and if you are a current member of an AFSCME Local, in the subject line of your email.
/ Applications will be considered until the position is filled. However, we strongly encourage applying before December 19, 2018.
This position is responsible for providing information and research services to union staff and leadership. The ideal candidate will be adept at: selecting and distributing news and other relevant information for a targeted audience, researching, analyzing, and disseminating information from diverse sources in response to patron requests, contributing to the management, organization, and assessment of the library collection, and providing outreach and instruction services for users of the Information Center.
Duties:
- Curates and assembles a daily email newsletter from a wide variety of sources, comprehensively covering key developments in topics of interest to AFSCME.
- Researches, retrieves, analyzes and disseminates information from electronic and print sources in response to reference requests.
- Synthesizes research findings into structured, digestible reports for a variety of audiences.
- Assists with collection management responsibilities including cataloging, identifying and evaluating potential acquisitions, shelving and weeding the collection.
- Performs outreach and instructional services for staff and provides access, assistance and support for Information Center resources.
- Researches, selects and independently assembles and distributes articles for AFSCME Information Center blogs.
- Creates fact sheets, user guides, and other documentation on internal and external electronic communications to foster user self-sufficiency.
- Conducts presentations or instructional sessions for internal and external audiences.
- Remains knowledgeable on issues affecting AFSCME members.
- May supervise clerical support staff.
- Performs other general duties as assigned.
Education and Experience Requirements:
Graduation from an accredited four-year college or university; an advanced degree in library or information science is strongly preferred, and three to five years of experience in a library or similar setting which provides the following skills.
Skills Requirements:
- Ability to identify requestors' needs through use of reference interviews and craft effective search strategies to address those needs.
- Ability to synthesize research findings and write clear, organized reports of research results based on the identified information need.
- Skilled in the use of digital technologies and experienced with electronic library information systems, databases and other information management and retrieval tools.
- Ability to perform sound research and make logical conclusions.
- Ability to evaluate, abstract and analyze data and technical information from diverse sources.
- Knowledge of library administration principles.
- Experience with knowledge and information management principles, strategies and technologies.
- Ability to develop positive working relationships with colleagues and Information Center users.
- Ability to effectively manage multiple demands and deadlines and to balance short- and long-term priorities.
- Ability to communicate effectively both orally and in writing.
- Commitment to AFSCME's mission.
Desired Qualifications:
- Working knowledge of advanced search logic techniques and optimal usage of complex legal, business and news databases.
- Experience with library technical services including administration of OPAC software or other discovery systems and knowledge of metadata and cataloging standards.
- Familiarity with data and information management technologies such as content management system administration, HTML, digital asset management and relational database structures.
- Interest in labor relations and public sector institutions, law and policy issues.
AFSCME is an equal opportunity employer, and, as such, does not discriminate an employee or applicant on the basis of race, creed, color, age, sex, national origin, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, religious affiliation, disability, or any other classification protected from discrimination under applicable law.
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Job Posting: Work and Family Researchers Network Executive Officer
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Work and Family Researchers Network
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he Work and Family Researchers Network (WFRN) is currently seeking an experienced professional for the position of Executive Officer.
The WFRN is a non-profit (501-c-3) membership organization. We are an interdisciplinary and international community of work and family researchers that also welcomes the participation of policy makers and practitioners. The mission of WFRN is to promote knowledge and understanding of work and family issues among the community of global stakeholders.
As a fairly new organization, we are in search of an Executive Officer who can help create an exciting, relevant, and sustainable plan for WFRN moving forward. In addition to overseeing the day-to-day operations of the association, the Executive Officer will need to represent work and family scholarship and cultivate enthusiasm for the association and its work. The Executive Officer works collaboratively with the elected WFRN Executive Committee (which functions as the board of the association). The position is designed as a supplement to a faculty position (e.g., providing summer salary or a stipend) or may be administered as an independent contract.
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| Job Posting: UMass History Department and Labor Studies Program |
The History Department and the Labor Studies program of the University of Massachusetts Boston invite applications for a tenure-track assistant professor position in Public History effective September 1, 2019.
Teaching duties will include an introductory, interdisciplinary course in Labor History, upper-level courses in U.S. Labor/Working Class History, and Public History courses. The successful applicant will also serve as the Associate Director of the University's Labor Resource Center, contributing to the enhancement of the center through research, teaching, and research program development.
Responsibilities in the History Department will focus on working with the Director of the Public History track to support the program and develop the curriculum, and advising students, capstones, and theses.
A Ph.D. in History, Public History, or a closely related field is required. Candidates must demonstrate a strong commitment to scholarship and teaching and have an active research agenda. The search committee will also be looking for teaching experience, a track record as a practicing Public Historian, and commitment to working collaboratively with community and history stakeholders.
For more information please contact the search chair at tim.hacsi@umb.edu. Review of applications will begin on November 1, 2018 and continue until the position is filled.
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Journal of Collective Bargaining in the Academy
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The Journal of Collective Bargaining in the Academy is the National Center's peer review multi-disciplinary journal that is co-edited by Jeffrey Cross, Eastern Illinois University, and Gary Rhoades, University of Arizona.
We encourage scholars, practitioners, and graduate students in the fields of collective bargaining, labor representation, labor relations, and labor history to submit research articles, op-eds, and practitioner perspectives for potential publication. The Journal is particularly interested in contributions related to collective bargaining and unionization issues in a post-Janus world.
The following are articles published in the latest Journal volume:
Op-Eds
The Slippery Slope of "Unique" by Daniel J. Julius counters the commonly held notion among academics that their collective bargaining is essentially different from other bargaining units.
Articles
The History Books Tell It? Collective Bargaining in Higher Education in the 1940s by William A. Herbert examines the little-known history of collective bargaining in higher education from the 1940s including the collective bargaining program instituted by the University of Illinois and the role of United Public Workers of America and its predecessor unions in negotiating the first contracts for faculty before the union was destroyed during the McCarthy era.
Practitioner Perspective
The Accidental Academic: Reflections on 50 Years in Academic Collective Bargaining by William Connellan gives a retrospective from a 50-year veteran in academic labor relations that reminds us of the complexity of bargaining, with not only the internal tensions, but the external dimension to what happens at the bargaining table.
The Journal of Collective Bargaining in the Academy is
supported, in part, by a generous contribution from TIAA and is hosted by the institutional repository of Eastern Illinois University.
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National Center for the Study of Collective Bargaining
in Higher Education and the Professions
425 E 25th St.
Box 615
New York, NY 10010
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