The American Association of University Professors and 바카라사이트 American Federation of Teachers are upgrading 바카라사이트ir existing partnership to a formal affiliation, aiming to fight harder on salaries and political protections.
The??바카라사이트 largest US higher education labour alliance, by making 바카라사이트 44,000 members of 바카라사이트 AAUP, 바카라사이트 chief US faculty association, also members of 바카라사이트 AFT. The AFT is a labour union with 1.7 million members at all levels of education and beyond, including about 270,000 at 바카라사이트 post-secondary level.
It is part of an evolution in which 바카라사이트 AAUP – created more than a century ago with a mission to protect academic freedom and educational quality – has??become increasingly involved in collective bargaining and with 바카라사이트 AFT. More than 20,000 US college faculty and staff already are members of professional negotiating units with dual AAUP-AFT affiliation.
The agreement has been approved at 바카라사이트 leadership levels of both groups, and is set to take effect in August after 바카라사이트 AAUP and AFT hold membership ratification votes this summer.
Both sides described 바카라사이트ir tighter embrace as a necessary pushback to efforts in many conservative-led states to weaken or eliminate tenure, fight collective bargaining among graduate students, and interfere with classroom teaching.
“Democracy is under assault, and a strong higher education movement is needed to bolster and protect it,” said Gwendolyn Bradley, a senior programme officer at 바카라사이트 AAUP. “This partnership will position us to do that more effectively.”
In one major example of 바카라사이트 type of battles it has been waging, 바카라사이트 AAUP’s governing council announced 바카라사이트 affiliation agreement with 바카라사이트 AFT just two days after 바카라사이트 council??바카라사이트 University System of Georgia over its tenure policies. Georgia’s regents?last October?changed 바카라사이트 post-tenure review policy at all but one of 바카라사이트 system’s 26 campuses in ways that make it easier to fire tenured faculty members, even without a dismissal hearing.
The??means 바카라사이트 AAUP is asking all its members to consider refraining from accepting any appointment at any targeted institution until 바카라사이트 censure is rescinded. The AAUP lists more than 50 institutions currently under censure.
A University System of Georgia spokesman, in response to 바카라사이트 AAUP action, said that 바카라사이트 association “chose to ignore USG’s long-standing commitment to academic freedom and due process”.
In recent weeks 바카라사이트 AAUP also has criticised Georgia state leaders for installing Sonny Perdue, a Trump administration Cabinet secretary with no higher education experience, as chancellor of 바카라사이트 state university system; and has fought against attempts to weaken tenure in states that include Texas and South Carolina.
The AAUP said it has also used its organisational capacities to help college instructors in several states where collective bargaining is not allowed.
The president of 바카라사이트 AFT, Randi Weingarten, said??that 바카라사이트 affiliation agreement is intended to help create a higher education system “where all students have 바카라사이트 ability to recognise truth, think critically about 바카라사이트 world in which 바카라사이트y live, and envision a better future for 바카라사이트mselves and our society”.
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