Category: AP Meetings & Info (Page 2 of 2)

**next Adjunct Project working mtg this Friday**

Hi, everyone,

This is a lil’ reminder about the Adjunct Project’s next working mtg:
Friday, September 23, 2-4pm
Graduate Center room 5414
Free food and drinks, so bring a friend or five.
The weather’s changing, so get a rad scarf too. $5 each, or $10 solidarity rate.

Here are some proposed topics to discuss:
*report-backs about the PSC trainings last week
*Plan our involvement in the Sept. 26 CUNY BoT protest
*discuss our involvement in the Oct. 7 Defending Public Higher Ed Conference at the GC
*Fall’11/Spring’12 workshop schedule proposal based on your survey responses
*Create AP working groups (health care, contract campaign/GC chapter, workshops, media/publicity, etc.) that can hold “break-out” activity sessions for part of each AP mtg, then report back to the group
*Establish a semi-regular GC/CUNY outreach tabling schedule
*AP website and office need love! Solicit volunteers to help out…
*What else do YOU think we should talk about?

Please forward out to friends/colleagues/other lists, and let’s keep the political momentum going—>

on behalf of the AP co-cos,
-Conor

FIRST AP MEETING OF THE SEMESTER: TUES 9/6 4-6PM!!!

We welcome YOU to our first meeting of Fall 2011

on Tuesday, September 6th, at 4pm in CUNY

Graduate Center room 5409; i.e. JOIN US!!

ad·junct

[aj-uhngkt]

noun

1. person associated with lesser value, wages, importance;

i.e. second-class.

2. person working at a college or university without full or

permanent job status or protection; i.e. precarious.

3. majority of educators at the City University of New York

who teach the majority of its courses; i.e. exploited.

Ad·junct Proj·ect

[aj-uhngkt proj-ekt]

noun

1. organization of CUNY teachers and students who collaborate

to transform our university through workshops, reading circles,

conferences, PSC-CUNY union involvement, and creatively

robust forms of social justice; i.e. activated.

2. committed to anti-racism, anti-sexism, immigrants’ rights,

LGBTQI equality, diverse abilities; i.e. principled.

What to do about late pay

Good afternoon fellow adjuncts! With the spring 2011 semester upon us, it is sad but true that some of us might receive our first paycheck (Feb 10) late. As something that is the norm rather than the exception, many adjuncts and others do not receive their checks on time. Below is a short guideline that one should follow if they do not receive a check on time:

1. Make sure your department has submitted your paperwork to the Human Resources at the school you are teaching.

2. If paperwork has been submitted to H.R. follow-up with them to make sure all of your paperwork has been processed and submitted on time.

3. If your paper work has been submitted and processed through H.R. check with Payroll to make sure they received all the necessary paperwork.

If all three of these things are completed and you have still not received a pay check, you should contact your PSC chapter representative: http://psc-cuny.org/chapters

You can also contact the Adjunct Project: theadjunctproject@gmail.com

Good luck everyone with a new semester!

HOLIDAY CARDS FOR THE PROVOST!

Baruch’s Provost is ringing in the New Year with class size increases and adjunct layoffs. And CUNY’s New Years Resolution is to charge you more tuition.

What are we going to do about it?

Grab some paper, some scissors, and some markers, wish Provost McCarthy a happy new year, and let him know how you feel about charging more for bigger classes!

Join our holiday card–making session on

Mon Dec 13th 1-4pm (Baruch Vertical Campus lobby)

Provost McCarthy has instructed many department chairs at Baruch College to eliminate courses and the contingent workers who teach them by creating jumbo classes of over 100 students.  These classes will not have teaching assistants, and some instructors won’t even have a grader.  The Adjunct Project stands in solidarity with Baruch students, department chairs, and faculty in demanding no class size increases at Baruch or any other CUNY campus. 

The situation at Baruch is changing rapidly, but even if new jumbo classes end up not being in the mix, general class size increases appear to be on the horizon for the spring and definitely the fall, and adjunct layoffs are a certainty.  If this gets rammed through at Baruch, we can all be sure that it will set a precedent for all of CUNY, and that we will see larger classes everywhere, and longtime adjuncts being fired as their classes are taken away.

Baruch is a laboratory, and a precedent will be set however things end up! Make the precedent our resistance to the “walmartization” of CUNY!

Check this SNOWPERSON out!!!

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Adjunct Pay Schedules

Below are the list of pay dates for CUNY schools. Take note, Senior colleges (4 year) pay is on different dates than Community colleges (2 year). If you have NOT received a pay check or continually receive late pay, you MUST go to Human Resources and/or Payroll to find out what the issue is and why you are not receiving your pay check on time.

If you cannot get in touch with anyone at your CUNY school, you can contact us at the Adjunct Project to help assist you. We are here for YOU!

SENIOR COLLEGES:
September 9, 2010
September 23, 2010
October 7, 2010
October 21, 2010
November 4, 2010
November 18, 2010
December 2, 2010
December 16, 2010
December 30, 2010

COMMUNITY COLLEGES*:
September 3, 2010
September 17, 2010
October 1, 2010
October 15, 2010
October 29, 2010
November 12, 2010
November 26, 2010
December 10, 2010
December 23, 2010
*Except Kingsborough and LaGuardia

Important Union Meeting: NOVEMBER 4TH!!!

The Professional Staff Congress (PSC)–the union which represents contingent (and all) employees teaching at CUNY–will have meetings on THURSDAY OCTOBER 21ST and NOVEMBER 4TH to discuss the demands they’ll make for the new contract with CUNY. The PSC and the Adjunct Project encourage all individuals teaching at CUNY to attend.

The meeting, called a Delegate Assembly, is open to all PSC Members. If you teach at CUNY, you pay dues, and by filling out a brief card you become a member, and can then vote on the upcoming contract. The Adjunct Project will have union membership cards available at the meeting.

SIGN THE CONTRACT DEMANDS PETITION <———–HERE!!!!!!!!!! Continue reading

What are your demands for the upcoming union contract between the PSC and CUNY?

Hi everyone. The PSC Executive Council met last night to discuss contract demands. The AP was asked to send a list of grad student-specific demands, so based on topics that came up at our first meeting and on conversations we’ve been having with various members, I sent the following list:

“1) Minimum three-year contracts for adjuncts, with documented reasons for non-reappointment and a system of seniority.
2) Wage increase of $30 per credit hour for adjuncts; equivalent for grad fellows and other contingent titles. Step raises every year.
3) Comprehensive employer-paid health insurance on par with municipal workers for all contingent employees.
4) Promotional series, real job security and due process for HEOs.

In addition to these, the students we have talked to are also very much concerned with the current and pressing issues of late pay for many adjuncts across CUNY campuses, as well as layoffs/non-reappointment of adjuncts for no documented reason. Other concerns include class size increases (with no correlative pay increase for larger classes, including for “jumbo” classes), ongoing difficulty in obtaining adjunct waivers to teach classes beyond the “9/6″ workload, the limitations of NYSHIP, and the lack of maternity/parental and sick leave for Graduate Assistant As, Bs, and Cs.”

The first four demands listed here are from the AP/CCU contract demands petition. If you haven’t signed that petition PLEASE DO SO HERE: www.petitiononline.com/demands. The other demands are concerns we’ve been hearing since the beginning of the semester. When the demands are formalized, I will also include that GTFs should be able to receive ADJ/CET Professional Development Fund Grants.

Are there any other demands you’d like to see added to this list before the negotiations begin??? Please email theadjunctproject@gmail.com if there are other things you think should be included here.

Alyson

Welcome to the Adjunct Project!

Welcome to the new CUNY Adjunct Project website! Here you’ll find information about teaching at CUNY, including (but not limited to) being a first-time adjunct; how to navigate your health insurance plan; what your rights and responsibilities are; what our contract looks like; and other issues affecting graduate student workers and adjuncts.

If you are teaching at CUNY, you should be a member of the Adjunct Project! On a broad scale, we work to empower you in the classroom. We try to

  • raise consciousness about academic labor issues inside and outside CUNY,
  • educate GC adjuncts about ways to address these issues,
  • and activate GC student-workers to improve their collective position as workers at CUNY.

Furthermore, the Adjunct Project seeks to organize its resources for graduate students around two areas: 1) labor issues and concerns, and 2) teaching resources and pedagogy. Both of these elements are key dimensions of empowerment in the workplace for graduate student workers.

Teaching is an honor, and adjuncts work tirelessly for their students. Yet academia can be an unfriendly– or downright exploitative- place for adjuncts. We believe that by working together to improve our collective position as “contingent workers”, we promote a culture that replaces the academic culture of competitive individualism with equity and fair working conditions.

In solidarity,

Alison Powell

Co-coordinator, Organization and Planning

P.S. Don’t forget to sign up for important updates about contract negotiations, upcoming meetings, labor actions / protests, and the like!

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