Updates in brief and links
1. More responses to the Delphi report on the changing faculty and support for adjuncts
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2012/08/03/new-effort-discuss-adjuncts-and-faculty-jobs
2. Cost of misclassifying workers as independent contractors (this happens to some teachers especially in extension and similar programs)
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/08/02/1115763/-Daily-Kos-Labor-digest-Workers-and-states-lose-big-bucks-from-employee-misclassification
3. Grad unions active while awaiting NLRB ruling on their right to unionize under NLRA
http://labornotes.org/blogs/2012/07/eager-unionize-grad-workers-wait-nlrbs-thumbs
4. Cyber learning and the for-profits
http://www.dailycensored.com/2012/08/05/cyber-earning-the-big-enchilada-point-and-click-education-in-the-age-of-irrationality/
5. A Philly, PA area adjunct deal with cancer while teaching up to 7 classes.
http://articles.philly.com/2012-08-05/news/33049741_1_adjuncts-cat-scan-entire-class#.UB-8aXls3k4.gmail
6. Good blog on workplace issues by Cory Robin, a TT prof in CA and formerly a leader of the Yale grad union (and author of the great book, “FEAR, the history of a political idea” which has a wonderful chapter on fear as a factor in the workplace, drawn largely from his Yale expereinces. See his blog at:
http://coreyrobin.com/category/laborworkplace/
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