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overview | Nov/Dec '07 UPDATE | JULY '07 UPDATE | photo gallery | press coverage | petition |
CAMPAIGN OF OUTRAGE! How cheap can you be? Five colleges have been short-changing adjuncts for years -- paying them less than 15 weeks or the 45 hours for the semester. Protests to demand that these five colleges stop shortchanging adjuncts were held on five days during finals week, May 21 - 31 and again during the Thanksgiving and December holiday season.Pictures from November protests at Baruch and BCC.
Photo credit: Dave SandersSecurity guards at Baruch asked to deliver turkey to
the administration. (Click here for article in the Baruch
College student newspaper, the Ticker.)
Photo credit: Dave SandersLeafleting students at Bronx CC.
Go to photo gallery (November and May/June '07 protest) and press coverage of the May/June '07 events.
Sign the petition protesting this outrage.
July '07 update: On Wednesday, July 11, PSC members took the “Campaign of Outrage” to prospective students on three campuses where the colleges were holding open houses. As “This Week” readers know, the union has mounted pressure on CUNY to change the policy at five colleges that pay teaching adjuncts only two hours during finals week for time they spend proctoring exams rather than the three hours pay rate they receive during the rest of the semester. The reality is that adjuncts, like other faculty, teach as much during finals week as in any other. Shortchanging adjuncts during finals week is not just cheap, it’s blatantly unfair and it’s an insult to our professionalism. At Wednesday’s open house events at Bronx, Queensborough and Kingsborough, members handed out hundreds of flyers and talked to dozens of students; students were generally very responsive and supportive. This action followed the May demonstrations during finals week where PSC members protested outside the administration buildings on all five campuses (the other two campuses are Baruch and Staten Island) and delivered 2,000 petition signatures demanding an end to this embarrassing practice.
“CUNY Adjuncts Want Full Pay in Finals Week,” The Chief, 6/1/07“Protesting Adjuncts Say BC Shortchanges Them,” Norwood News, 5/31-6/13/07
http://www.bronxmall.com/norwoodnews/news/N70531page5.html
http://www.psc-cuny.org/PDF/ChiefAdjunctsWantFullPay.pdf “Adjuncts Ask, ‘How Cheap Can You Get?’” AFT Higher Education News, 6/1/07
http://www.aft.org/higher_ed/news/2007/adjuncts_ask.htm Adjunct Profs Protest for Better Treatment,” Brooklyn View, 6/4/07 (see page 4
http://www.brooklynview.net/images/6.4.07Web.pdf “PSCers Rally for Adjunct Professors,” NYSUT News Wire, 6/5/07
http://www.nysut.org/cps/rde/xchg/nysut/hs.xsl/highereducation_7932.htm
