“Union yes!” say adjuncts at Henry Ford CC
From the AFT LeaderNet:
Sometimes the loudest voice of all is the one that makes hardly a sound. Like the rustle of ballots piling up for the Henry Ford Community College Adjunct Faculty Organization (AFO) when the Michigan Employment Relations Commission counted them up May 7. The vote was 334 to 41 out of a unit of 580 faculty.
The AFO began organizing less than a year ago, dismayed by impossibly low pay scales that maxed out at $1,700 a course, lack of job security and health insurance, and no access to office space for preparation work or to meet with students. The adjuncts sought help from AFT Michigan, the state affiliate of the full-time faculty local at Henry Ford.
“The only way to get salaries that at least match other area colleges is through collective bargaining,” says AFT Michigan president David Hecker . . . .