Celebrate Campus Equity Week 2013 with UMass Amherst GEO-UAW, GSS, and MSP

Campus Equity Week is a week of education and action to draw attention to the struggle of contingent academic workers for fair pay and the right to organize. Quality education depends practically and ethically on professional and just working conditions for all faculty and staff, including contingent faculty and graduate student workers. The crisis of contingent faculty employment at colleges and universities is at the … Continue reading

UAW 2322 Members Published!

Congratulations go out to two of UAW’s members, Jan Clausen and Eva Swidler, for their recent published work in the Journal of Academic Freedom. JAF is an annual publication of the American Association of University Professors. The publication of “Academic Freedom from Below: Towards an Adjunct-Centered Struggle” can be read online at www.aaup.org/sites/default/files/files/JAF/2013%20JAF/ClausenSwidler.pdf … Continue reading

GEO Bowling League starting this Sunday!

Hello all! I am happy to announce that the Graduate Employee Organization Bowling League will begin again this weekend! The Graduate Employee Organization has reserved 5 lanes, for one night per week, for the next 8 weeks at Spare Time bowling in Northampton, MA. It costs $8 to bowl each night.  At the end of the 8 weeks, you get a free bowling ball! We … Continue reading