The truth is, modeling epitomizes the kind of precarious job that, since the 1990s, has been spreading from the informal labor market into traditionally more secure workplaces, like the retail and service industries and my own occupational home, the university, where contracted adjunct instructors are replacing tenure-track professor lines.
Even before the new contract, adjuncts teaching three or more courses in an academic year could receive benefits, including health and retirement coverage and tuition reimbursement.
A new union contract grants adjunct faculty members at Tufts University in Medford, Massachusetts, the rights to receive prompt notification of full-time openings in their departments, to be considered for the jobs, and to interview for those jobs.
To obtain a 3-year contract, an adjunct must have taught at least two courses in the same department, at a single CUNY school, in each of the previous 10 semesters.
Another shocking quote from Schlosser article explains how "I once saw an adjunct not get his contract renewed after students complained that he exposed them to "offensive" texts written by Edward Said and Mark Twain.
Researchers on fixed-term contracts and adjunct teaching staff need the real prospect of job security.
Adjuncts who signed contracts to teach two courses can lose one or both of those courses, often when it is too late to find another section to teach.
The contracts of all adjunct faculty members would be terminated.
At nearly a dozen private colleges in California, adjunct professors are holding first-time contract negotiations or are campaigning to win the right to do so.
The two groups announced that the settlement would provide a 9percentt increase over 27 months in the total economic package for the 17,200 professors, instructors, adjuncts and others covered by the contract, which will run through Oct. 31, 2002.
