The Battle For Haiti: Which Side Are You On?
by Carl Lindskoog
On March 31, speaking before the International Donors’ Conference for Haiti, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton proclaimed the United States’ commitment to “help Haiti and to help the leaders of Haiti lead a recovery effort worthy of their highest hopes.” At the conclusion of the conference participants from the international community had pledged $5.3 billion to […]
Who Cares About Wal-Mart?
by Carl Lindskoog
Nelson Lichtenstein, The Retail Revolution: How Wal-Mart Created a Brave New World of Business. Metropolitan Books, 2009 Bethany Moreton, To Serve God and Wal-Mart: The Making of Christian Free Enterprise. Harvard University Press, 2009 Many New Yorkers might wonder what use it is to understand a company like Wal-Mart. After all, with no Wal-Marts in the city […]
The Crisis Of Labor
by Carl Lindskoog
Kim Moody, U.S. Labor in Trouble and Transition: The Failure of Reform from Above, the Promise of Revival from Below. Verso, 2007, 320 pages. Bill Fletcher Jr. and Fernando Gapasin, Solidarity Divided: The Crisis in Organized Labor and a New Path Toward Social Justice. University of California Press, 2008, 324 pages. As the global economic crisis deepens, the […]
A Week Without Adjuncts
by Carl Lindskoog
What would happen if all graduate students, adjuncts, and other “contingent workers” at CUNY decided to withhold their labor for a week? How would CUNY continue operating if these so-called “part-timers” took a week-long work holiday? With graduate students and adjuncts teaching more than half of the classes at CUNY, business as usual would be impossible. Although […]
Health Insurance: We Must Keep Pushing
by Carl Lindskoog
Over the past month the campaign for graduate student health insurance has grown tremendously. Graduate students are signing up for the campaign in large numbers, calling and writing letters to their representatives in the State Assembly and Senate, and insisting that Chancellor Matthew Goldstein and President Bill Kelly hear our urgent appeal: CUNY graduate students […]
Now is the Time for Graduate Student Health Insurance at CUNY!
by Carl Lindskoog
Don’t look now, but the movement for graduate student health insurance is rapidly gaining momentum. Graduate students are speaking publicly about our lack of health insurance and mobilizing a surprising campaign to achieve this urgent need. Here is what has been happening and what is coming up in the future. Last semester graduate students initiated a new […]
The Adjunct Project: Who Are We, What Are We Doing, and How Can You Help?
by Carl Lindskoog
Who is the adjunct project? Adjuncting Kate Griffiths, Anthropology Program: I’m getting involved with the Adjunct Project and the PSC contract fight because I’ve seen that when union members take that role seriously and get involved in our unions, exciting things can happen and problems can get solved. I also particularly want to help build relationships […]
What Do We Want?! When Do We Want It?!
by Carl Lindskoog
A Response to Barbara Bowen on the New PSC Strategy Adjuncting On the evening of Oct. 30 I joined approximately one thousand fellow union members at Cooper Union for a mass meeting of the Professional Staff Congress (PSC). The centerpiece of the event was a speech in which PSC President Barbara Bowen delivered the union’s new contract strategy […]
Adjuncts, Who’s Got Your Back? Your Students.
by Carl Lindskoog
Adjuncting In the mid-1990s something curious happened on college campuses across America. Students began to wonder where their sneakers came from. They wondered who had made their new t-shirts and under what conditions. When they purchased a baseball cap featuring their college logo, what did it mean for the person who had created it? These students were […]
Towards Adjunct Empowerment
by Carl Lindskoog
As the academic year begins, some Graduate Center students are facing a college class as teachers for the first time while others are resuming their now familiar role of adjunct teaching. Veteran and first-timer alike, we are all heading back to work. And as we do, we should take a moment to consider how we experience our […]
