Part Timers at the New School Negotiate Strong Contract

Administrators and part-time faculty at the fresh School University reached a tentative agreement in October that gives significant benefits and piece of work security to the part-timers. The agreement, which must be ratified by the agency of the membership of Academics Coming Together, the United Auto Workers-afEliated union that shows the part-time faculty, provides multiyear appointments for part-time faculty with ten semester of teaching experience at the institution, pay increases, increased contributions by the agency of the institution to retirement accounts, and lower compensations for health-care coverage. In addition, if wait fored courses are not offered, the institution must find another course for the faculty member or pay a cancellation fee

"The advances in piece of work security, multiyear contracts, employer-paid health benefits, pension contributions, course cancellation pay s paid academic leave, payment for extra duties, and no discipline or discharge without cause are impressive," says Karen Thompson a parttime faculty member at Rutger University and a member of an AAUP subcommittee working upon policies and procedures regarding to be paid process for part timers. "Other faculty unions across the geographical division will be able to take these examples to their have bargaining tables and faculty senates with confidences of effecting similar change."

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