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The Executive Board of the Adjunct Union is in the process of establishing a scholarship in memory of Larry DeVaro, long-time adjunct professor of history and secretary to the union board, who passed away in January.   Several people have asked about making contributions in Larry's memory.  If you wish to donate to this scholarship fund, please make out your check to UAFNJ - Camden Chapter and note on the check "for DeVaro scholarship."  Checks can be mailed to UAFNJ, PO Box 143, Blackwood, NJ  08012 or can be given to any member of the Executive Board.  

In solidarity,

Karen Feldman and Robert Hammond
Co-chairs, UAFNJ Camden Co Chapter

and Board members: Ernie Kiesel, Ed Carroll, Robert DelSordo, and Greg Wheeler
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Dear Fellow Adjunct Faculty Members,

For several years, our union, United Adjunct Faculty of New Jersey,  has been attempting to make it easier (or at least possible) for us to collect unemployment compensation when we are not working.  We now have bills in committee in both the NJ Assembly and Senate.   We urge you to contact your state representatives and the chairs of the Higher Education committees in the two houses of the NJ legislature.  Email addresses are shown in this forwarded email from the secretary of our state affiliate.

Do yourself a favor and send an email now!

Karen Feldman and Robert Hammond
Co-chairs, Camden Co Chapter, UAFNJ


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Subject: Unemployment bill


Good evening,

I am happy to report that our Unemployment bill, that can hopefully help adjunct faculty collect during the Summer, has been submitted to committees in both house of the NJ legislature. We need to get the bills on the floor for a vote. The bills are identical.

We need to begin an e-mail campaign to the Chairs of the respective higher ed committees (Asw Mila Jasey in the Assembly--AswJasey@njleg.org<mailto:Assembly--AswJasey@njleg.org>

and Sen Cunningham in the Senate--SenCunningham@njleg.org<mailto:Senate--SenCunningham@njleg.org> ) asking for A-2718 and S-801 to be scheduled for a vote. The more emails sent the better chance of the bills being posted. They should be separate emails with the bill number indicated.

Please spread this to as many adjunct faculty, members and potential members, so we can get the bills posted. Once we have a date for the vote I will inform you so you can ask your people to contact their assemblymen(women) and senators and ask them to support it.

Thanks and please get the word out there.

Bill Lipkin
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CCC Local United Adjunct Faculty of New Jersey AFT #2222

 

This is the AFT website for the adjunct union chapter at Camden County College campuses in Blackwood, Camden and Cherry Hill, New Jersey. We are the CCC chapter of United Adjunct Faculty of New Jersey AFT #2222. Our original union, Camden County College Adjunct Faculty Federation (CCCAFF), was founded in 1995 to represent the economic, social and professional interests of part-time contingent faculty. It is affiliated with the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) and the international union of the AFL-CIO. In 2009, the NJ AFT community college locals voted to join together to form a super local called United Adjunct Faculty of New Jersey (UAFNJ). The Camden County Chapter of UAFNJ will continue to maintain local autonomy in dealing with the College. At the moment, including the members from Camden County College, the nine member chapters have more than 3000 members in UAFNJ.

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What unions do

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In AFT President Randi Weingarten’s latest New York Times  column, she describes what it is exactly that unions do. Though unions are the most popular they have been in decades, anti-union sentiment still thrives in red states and across the nation. “Several years ago, The Atlantic ran a story whose headline made even me, a labor leader, scratch my head: ‘Union Membership: Very Sexy,’” Weingarten writes in the column. “The gist was that higher wages, health benefits and job security—all associated with union membership—boost one’s chances of getting married. Belonging to a union doesn’t actually guarantee happily ever after, but it does help working people have a better life in the here and now.” Click through to read the full column.

Union Office: Madison 116

 

Dear Adjunct Professor Colleagues,

Over the last decade, adjunct faculty at Camden County College have become increasingly concerned at the direction the administration is taking the institution: addition or cancellation of teaching appointments at the last minute, lack of transparency in dealings with non-tenured faculty and students, as well as the reduction of adjunct faculty are just a few of the conditions that CCC faculty have been unable to effectively resist without representation. We have no real job security, and in many cases, no clear program for advancement, despite the fact that some of us have been teaching at CCC for years or even decades.

CCC depends on a large group of highly trained, committed, non-tenure track faculty like us. While our official job titles vary by school and department – Lecturer, Assistant, Associate or Full Professor (Teaching), Adjunct, Visiting Faculty, Professor (Teaching) – we are, all of us, contingent faculty. Therefore, our employment status remains tenuous, which results in our academic freedom being compromised.

For those of us teaching as adjunct faculty with multi-year contracts, our contracts state that we are not eligible to be considered for tenure benefits, and that non-tenure-track appointments are subject to early termination, while those of us who have semester-to-semester contracts can regularly expect to be unemployed every summer. Regardless of the number of years we’ve been employed by CCC, we can never depend on the job security our tenured colleagues enjoy.

And it’s not just job security. As contingent faculty, we’re paid a fraction of what tenured and tenure-track faculty earn – even when teaching the same courses, have reduced access to professional activities, and are disenfranchised from full participation in faculty governance. It is hard to plan one’s life without a clear expectation, much less guarantee, of continued employment. As at-will employees, we lack the pay, benefits and privileges, access to campus resources, and professional growth opportunities our tenure-track colleagues have. Now, CCC Adjunct faculty are standing up for dignity and a voice in our working conditions.

Join Today!

 

 

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