{"id":5631,"date":"2009-03-20T12:09:55","date_gmt":"2009-03-20T20:09:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/?p=5631"},"modified":"2009-03-20T12:09:55","modified_gmt":"2009-03-20T20:09:55","slug":"new-adjunct-faculty-union-gets-a-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/2009\/03\/new-adjunct-faculty-union-gets-a-name\/","title":{"rendered":"New Adjunct-Faculty Union Gets a Name"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Chronicle News Blog: <a href=\"http:\/\/chronicle.com\/news\/index.php?id=6169&#038;utm_source=pm&#038;utm_medium=en\">New Adjunct-Faculty Union Gets a Name<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The nascent national voice for contingent faculty members now has a name: The New Faculty Majority.<\/p>\n<p>Adjuncts have been trying to form a national union and met in a teleconference at the end of February to hash out preliminary details. This past Sunday, during another call, the 18 members of the organizing committee picked \u201cThe New Faculty Majority\u201d as their calling card, with a subtitle: The National Coalition for Adjunct and Contingent Equity. Nearly 70 percent of professors at the nation\u2019s colleges and universities work off the tenure track.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Chronicle News Blog: New Adjunct-Faculty Union Gets a Name The nascent national voice for contingent faculty members now has a name: The New Faculty Majority. Adjuncts have been trying to form a national union and met in a teleconference &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/2009\/03\/new-adjunct-faculty-union-gets-a-name\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2275],"tags":[1288944,1288963],"class_list":["post-5631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-unions","tag-contingent-labor","tag-unions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5631"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5631\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5632,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5631\/revisions\/5632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}