Shame! The California state senate elections committee, which has a 6-1 Democrat supermajority, just rejected ACA 6! ACA 6 would have put a measure on the ballot in 2024 to require that @UofCalifornia comply with state labor law. The hall of shame of CA state senators who voted against ACA 6 today (Sept. 11, 2023) includes Democrats @BenAllenCA and @Steve_Glazer. At least one other didn't step up but I want to confirm the vote before I name them.

A thread 🧵 on all the ways that @UofCalifornia is relying on faculty to break the #FairUCNow strike by @uaw2865/ @sruuaw. Faculty: do not fall prey to these tactics! Refuse to do struck work, and consider not submitting course grades for classes with striking TAs and graders. Individual @UofCalifornia departments, including staff at the @UCLA Physics Department, are reaching out to their undergraduates, offering them money to scab for striking TAs and RAs by proctoring and grading final exams. Undergrads should refuse to do this!

How @UofCalifornia pays its lecturers, or "non-senate faculty", as little as possible, and less per course than graduate students. Here's a short explanation of how it gets away with it. Lecturers in @UCAFT have bargained for what our contract calls a "salary scale", what @UofCalifornia calls a "pay range." However, for all but some professional school faculty, there is no scale. UCs start all lecturers at the bottom of the scale, regardless of experience.

What is the neoliberal university (or college), where did it come from, and what should be done about it? A Thread. #highereducation #capitalism #neoliberalism 1) The neoliberal university (or college) is an institution of higher education whose governance is primarily organized around increasing revenue, even when it is a non-profit or public institution. All other functions are secondary.

There are a lot of things that tenured (and some tenure track) #faculty can do to resist the decline of #tenure. This thread focuses on ways to formalize the hiring and retention of #adjunct faculty and other #lecturers in your department and at your school. #highereducation 1) Tenured faculty should ask to receive regular (at least annual) reports on what % of courses, and what % of students in their department’s courses are taught by non-tenure track faculty.

Here is a thread to help people understand the growth of the #gigeconomy in #highereducation in the U.S., or what Kim Moody calls the “proletarianization” of college teachers. 1) Many people think tenure— a seniority system for hiring and retaining faculty that is run by faculty themselves— is normal for college instructors. It's not. The majority of college teachers in the U.S. are ineligible for tenure. This has been the case for almost 50 years.