Students and locals rally for IC contingent faculty unions
Students from Ithaca College and members of the Tompkins County Workers’ Center rallied for the second time this week to support the contingent faculty unions.
Students from Ithaca College and members of the Tompkins County Workers’ Center rallied for the second time this week to support the contingent faculty unions.
On Feb. 19, Ithaca College published a list of facts and questions that community members might have about a potential contingent faculty strike.
But, the Union leaders broke one of the fundamental laws of the playing field: they made their own rules, and told everyone something else.
We recognize that all labor actions by our colleagues and professors at Ithaca College are actions against the corporatization of higher education in the US.
If it must come down to it, the campus community should support contingent professors if they go on strike.
Our teaching needs, and therefore our students’ interests, are best served by faculty working under just conditions.
Ithaca College and our department depend on their work every semester and this need is not likely to diminish in the foreseeable future.
The Ithaca College bargaining team is disappointed that the contingent faculty unions have announced that they have voted to authorize a strike.
The Ithaca College part-time lecturers and full-time contingent faculty members voted today to authorize the IC Contingent Faculty Union to call for any action up to a strike.
The following presents a summary of the compensation model for part-time faculty that the union has proposed to the IC administration.
In Women’s and Gender Studies, we are entirely dependent on part-time faculty to cover our primary courses.
The Department of Art History writes to express our deep appreciation and support for our part-time and contingent faculty members.