Adjunct faculty members working at more than 20 Boston institutions gathered on Saturday, 13 April, for a symposium to kick off the local coalition of Adjunct Action, a campaign by the 2.1-million-member Service Employees International Union (SEIU) to unionize contingent and adjunct faculty members.
These are not the only improvements that the contract, which goes into effect 1 January, will bring to the working lives of the Tufts adjuncts, who voted to join the Service Employees International Union, which is running a nationwide organizing campaign called Adjunct Action, in September 2013.
Lunch was provided by the university administration, represented at the collective bargaining meeting by the director of human resources, the assistant provost, the university legal counsel, and an outside labor attorney who sat in a row of desks facing us -- 12 adjuncts (representing hundreds), an Adjunct Action organizer, and a labor attorney from the SEIU.
Put simply, it embraces an aesthetic whereby interpretation for the deaf or partially sighted is not an adjunct to the action but a positive enhancement of it.
Exotic and atmospheric, this is superior police procedural sleuthing in which the locale is etched with precision and the city of Istanbul becomes an indispensable character and adjunct to the action.
You wear white, beaky half-masks, which, if they don't irritate you, make you less shy, not to say pushy (you begin to feel invisible), and turn you into an eerie adjunct of the action; each lurid episode is surrounded by identical blank bony faces, like a circle of gravestones or bones.
Moreover, we have come to recognize that just war language and thinking obstruct, if unintentionally, the development of tools and capacity for nonviolent forms of protection in dangerous situations, for nonviolent transformation of conflict, etc. - or considers them only as an adjunct to military action.
As of today, in a Google-centric world at least, the operating system is a free adjunct to the real action in computing.
On the basis of recent reports, it seems that inhibition of the CXCR4 receptor might provide an important adjunct to the multispectral action of G-CSF.
Structural studies on these three components provide a starting point for the design of novel drugs to neutralize toxin action, yielding a valuable adjunct to conventional antibiotic treatment.
Genistein may prove useful as a substrate reduction agent to delay clinical onset of MPSIIIB and, due to its multimodal action, may provide a treatment adjunct for several other neurodegenerative metabolic diseases.
