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Tenure-Track Faculty ‘Are A Key Piece Of The Academic Labor Puzzle’ - Unlike With Other Academic Workers, Unionization Among Tenure-Track Faculty ‘Is Rare, But Unions Can Make It Easier For Tenure-Stream Faculty To Fight Back’

Published Tuesday, February 7, 2023
by Labor News Story Link To Jacobin
Tenure-Track Faculty ‘Are A Key Piece Of The Academic Labor Puzzle’ - Unlike With Other Academic Workers, Unionization Among Tenure-Track Faculty ‘Is Rare, But Unions Can Make It Easier For Tenure-Stream Faculty To Fight Back’

Sammy Feldblum and John Schmidt at Jacobin interview Jessica Taft of the Santa Cruz (California) Faculty Association.  They write that during the last few years, the University of California (UC) has been marked by labor militancy.  In their interview with Taft, a Professor of Latin American and Latino Studies at UC Santa Cruz, she described the relationship between tenure and labor politics at the university, touching on the increasingly corporate structure of academic workplaces, a recent UC Academic Worker Strike, and strategy for organizing in its aftermath.

To Directly Access This Labor News Story, Go To: Tenure-Track Faculty Are a Key Piece of the Academic Labor Puzzle (jacobin.com)

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