examiner.com: Obama and Duncan be warned, teachers’ unions can strike against Democrats too
President Obama has put non-unionized charter schools that cream some of the best kids from neighborhood schools at the top of his education agenda.
He has celebrated the leadership of D.C. schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee, who has fired 1000 educators and farmed kids out to charter schools.
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World University News: NEW ZEALAND: Research performance moves worry union
The next assessment of research in New Zealand’s tertiary education sector is three years away but preparations for the event by some institutions already have the country’s university staff union worried.EW ZEALAND: Research performance moves worry union
The next assessment of research in New Zealand’s tertiary education sector is three years away but preparations for the event by some institutions already have the country’s university staff union worried.
Daily Herald: Investigation clears COD faculty association
An internal investigation has determined the College of DuPage faculty association did not misuse college resources by listing its campus office as the address for its political action committee.
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Times-Herald: CSU fund management questioned
Concerned that California State University foundations may be mismanaged, a state faculty union has urged Attorney General Jerry Brown to launch an investigation.
“The 23,000 members of the California Faculty Association have serious concerns about whether or not the CSU’s various foundations are conforming to proper fiduciary responsibility under state and federal law,” union president Lillian Taiz wrote in a letter this week to Brown.
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Mercury News: Unionized workers rally outside UC president’s Oakland home to protest proposed cuts
OAKLAND — Unionized employees of the University of California rallied outside the North Oakland home of UC President Mark Yudof on Sunday morning to deliver what they called a “wake-up call” about his proposed cuts to the university system’s budget.
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Inside Higher Ed: So Sue Me
Contracts be damned. Kenneth A. Yowell, president of Edison Community College, in Ohio, believes he need not follow a union contract in deciding whose jobs to eliminate. Now, amid protest from faculty who already disapprove of his leadership, he is picking a fight with the local union to try to prove that he is well within his rights.
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Courier-Mail: Teachers may call more strikes for better pay
QUEENSLAND teachers are expected to reject a government ultimatum and call for further strikes in their fight for better pay, the union has warned.
More than 250 Queensland Teachers Union delegates meet today in Brisbane for the three-day state conference and will vote on whether to continue industrial action.
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The Philadelphia Inquirer: Teachers union targets Moore
A staff march on the art college was joined by conventioneers in Phila. for an AFT convention.
Waving signs and chanting, more than 100 members of the American Federation of Teachers Pennsylvania marched up the Benjamin Franklin Parkway yesterday to protest what they called unfair labor conditions at Moore College of Art and Design.
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Inside Higher Ed: Oregon to Adopt Union-Backed Principles on Part Timers
The Oregon Senate and House have now passed (with gubernatorial approval expected) legislation to codify principles of the Faculty and College Excellence Campaign of the American Federation of Teachers, which aims to improve the working conditions of faculty members and to push colleges to hire more tenure-track professors. Under the Oregon legislation, public colleges and universities will be required to report on the make-up of their faculties — something faculty groups say is essential for drawing attention to and changing hiring patterns. Further, some part timers will be able to gain eligibility for health insurance based on work at multiple colleges, not just one.
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AllAfrica.com: Zambia: Go Back to Work, Teachers Unions Urge Members
TEACHERS’ unions have appealed to their members to return to work after they agreed with the Government on a 15 per cent salary increment which was signed on Wednesday.
The Basic Education Teachers Union of Zambia (BETUZ) and the Zambia Union of Teachers (ZNUT) said in separate interviews that they had accepted the 15 per cent salary increment and urged their members to immediately return to work.
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Taipei Times: Group calls on Ma to respect teacher’s right to form unions
Ahead of the legislature’s scheduled review today and tomorrow of a bill on whether teachers can form unions, the National Teachers Association (NTA) yesterday publicized a letter from Education International (EI) calling on the government to respect teachers’ right to organize labor unions.
The English letter was written by Fred van Leeuwen, secretary-general of EI — a global federation of teachers representing more than 30 million members in 171 countries — and addressed to President Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九).
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Business Day: Cap all higher education pay, say unions
CAPPING the pay of top managers at public higher education institutions was a step in the right direction, but all salaries at these institutions should be subject to government guidelines, two higher education staff unions said yesterday.
The government has proposed that the total cost of all senior university and university of technology management salaries be capped at 6% of each institution’s total staff cost.
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The Chronicle: Adjunct and Tenure-Track Professors Need One Another, Say Speakers at AAUP Meeting
Washington — Tenure-track faculty members and their adjunct brethren don’t have to be enemies, according to a paper presented here today during a conference held concurrently with the American Association of University Professors’ annual meeting.
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The Chronicle: AAUP Says It’s Rebounding, Though Challenges Remain
The American Association of University Professors is back on track after the financial and organizational derailments it endured over the past three years. That was the message the group’s leadership reiterated throughout the business portion of the association’s 95th annual meeting, which wrapped up here on Saturday.
VoiceofSanDiego.com: Teachers Union Joins Labor Council
The union that represents teachers in San Diego Unified, the San Diego Education Association, voted yesterday to join the San Diego and Imperial Counties Labor Council, signifying a tighter relationship between unionized teachers and other organized labor across the region.
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The State News: Nontenured faculty to unionize
Nontenured faculty will have the opportunity to unionize this fall after voting to do so on Friday.
The 240 to 113 vote came after the Union of Nontenure-track Faculty organizing committee spent a year gauging union support among employees at MSU, said Richard Manderfield, a committee member and visiting assistant professor of writing, rhetoric and American culture. Now that union support has been solidified, the group plans to create a contract outlining its requests.
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SouthCoastToday.com: Angry UMD union rejects contract
DARTMOUTH — Under the pall of a proposed restructuring that would eliminate 64 full-time union positions, UMass Dartmouth’s largest bargaining unit has rejected a proposed three-year contract agreement.
By a vote of 76 in favor, 161 opposed, with two abstentions, the 600-member Faculty Federation’s Faculty, Librarians and Professional Technicians unit rejected the agreement that had been hammered out earlier this month.
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Journal Sentinel: MATC unions tentatively OK giving up raises
Unions representing faculty and staff at Milwaukee Area Technical College have tentatively agreed to a plan to forgo scheduled pay raises this year to help close a projected $19 million budget gap.
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AFT/FACE: Two Part-time Faculty Unions Form in New York
In back-to-back elections this spring, part-time/adjunct faculty teaching at two private colleges, the Manhattan School of Music and Cooper Union, have voted to unionize. The new unions are affiliated with the New York State United Teachers/AFT/NEA.
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World University News: CANADA: Academics call for greater transparency
The Canadian Association of University Teachers has called on the country’s universities to open their books so the causes and extent of the financial difficulties facing institutions can be better understood.
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