New analysis reveals that it is the richest Russell Group institutions that rely most heavily on insecure academic workers.
Meanwhile, a UCU report earlier this year, Making Ends Meet, described "the harsh" financial reality for many casual HE academic workers.
Consequently, it is also not surprising that there should be a widespread perception that university students, most graduates, scientific specialists, engineers and other academic workers all confront great difficulties in their technical reading which prevent them from effectively accessing specialist information in their work and study.
Over the past years, the emergence of academic unions has finally given postdocs and academic workers a democratic voice in the workplace.
On August 23, the National Labor Relations Board affirmed the rights of academic workers at private institutions to join unions in a case brought by Columbia University teaching and research assistants.
The NLRB's decision affirming the right of academic workers at private institutions to unionize comes at a time when stakes are especially high.
Academic workers of the CBOC live their brief lives gathering the nectar and defending the hive -- which has come to mean balancing the institutional books -- of the academy.
From 2006 through 2007, the largest increases in resident nonimmigrant admissions came from citizens of Mexico (36% increase), India (30% increase), and China (27% increase), largely accounted for by increased numbers of seasonal workers, academic students, workers in specialty occupations, and intracompany transferees (1 ).
Academic lab workers alone, the experts emphasize, lack the power to protect themselves.
Surely academic lab workers, at risk from slovenly safety standards, deserve as much protection as the integrity of Han's data or the workers at CDC.
