Over the past 12 months, inflation rose 7 percent the largest annual increase in 40 years.REF Government, particularly at the federal level, has imposed policies and mandates that have increased the prices that American households and businesses pay for goods and services.
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How Contingent Faculty Organizing Can Succeed in Higher Education
Despite recent organizing gains among some contingent faculty members, the adjunctification of higher education has left hundreds of thousands of college and university teachers with low pay, spotty benefit coverage, and little job security. As former adjuncts Joe Berry and Helena Worthen report in their new book,
The rapid, pandemic related expansion of on-line education threatens to further erode employment conditions for the two-thirds to three-fourths of all faculty members who are contingent. (For an analysis of OLE and its impact, see Robert Ovetz’s “Conscious Linkage: The Proletarianization of Academic Labor in the Algorithmic University,”
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Explainer: What is the PRO Act? by Rev. Ben Johnson • March 12, 2021 Nancy Pelosi speaks about the PRO Act, as AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka looks on with approval. (Photo credit: AP Photo / J. Scott Applewhite.)
The House of Representatives passed the PRO Act, the most significant compulsory union membership expansion bill in decades, by a 225-206 vote on Tuesday. The Protecting the Right to Organize Act, or “PRO Act,” of 2021 would force millions of workers to pay union dues against their will, cripple freelance work, erase free speech and privacy rights, skew elections in favor of unionization, and radically increase the federal government’s intervention into everyday workplace disputes.