Open Letter: Unions will fight for Paid Family Leave Program
Major unexpected events in our lives — both good and bad — can take a lot of time to work through.
Major unexpected events in our lives — both good and bad — can take a lot of time to work through.
Thinking in this way begs the question: Why even hire someone in the first place if they’re going to have to take an extended leave of absence?
The contingent faculty union and student supporters of the Students for Labor Action club have begun occupying the Peggy Ryan Williams Center.
Kurt Lichtman, lecturer in the Department of Health Promotion and Physical Education, dropped the suit he filed against the contingent faculty union.
IC Students for Labor Action and the Contingent Faculty Union will be holding a sit-in in the Peggy Ryan Williams Center starting May 2 at noon.
Like many private colleges, the students from wealth families are overrepresented at IC, while lower middle class and poor people are underrepresented.
A faculty member is suing the contingent faculty union for not disclosing that faculty do not have to become members of the union to be employed.
By firing these three professors, the administration has communicated once again that it does not have the best interests of students in mind.
The Ithaca College contingent faculty union announced that a majority of the contingent faculty who voted, voted in favor of ratifying the contract.
Never knowing if we will be brought back from one year to another makes it hard to plan our lives and fully support our students and our families.
It’s clear that dragging out negotiations with the current administration beyond the grueling 17-month process would have accomplished little more.
The Ithaca College contingent faculty union is currently celebrating a victory: a first-time contract with the college.