Our host: vlorbik.com. Revised from the CFA/UAW version of ~2001.

• COCAL: Coalition of Contingent Academic Labor
  • California COCAL. . . Chicago COCAL. . . Connecticut COCAL. . . Oregon COCAL. . .
  • Campus Equity Week (2003).
• The American Association of University Professors (AAUP)
  • The Ohio Conference
    • U of Akron . . . Case Western Reserve U . . . U of Cincinnati . . . Cincinnati State CC . . . Cleveland State U . . . Kent State U . . . the Ohio State U . . . U of Toledo . . . Wright State U . . .
  • The U of Missouri, Kansas City Chapter has been particularly interesting.
  • A Part-time Lecturers chapter at Rutgers. . . Suffolk Affiliated Faculty/AAUP (Boston) . . .
• The AFT: American Federation of Teachers (AFL-CIO).
  • Higher Education Department.
  • The Ohio Federation of Teachers (history).
  • The Professional Staff Congress at NYU.
  • The PT Teacher's Union at Madison Area Technical College (Wisconsin)
  • Illinois Federation of Teachers
    • UPI: Local 4100. . . the Western Illinois U. chapter
• The NEA: (National Education Association).
  • Higher Education page and a very useful FAQ list.
  • The Ohio Education Association; the Columbus Education Association (& the CEA blog); the Columbus State Educational Association.
  • The Illinois Education Association
    • The AFA-IEA at Oakton CC . . . the NTT-IEA at ISU . . . P-fac at Columbia College . . .
• The United Auto Workers (UAW).
  • ACT-UAW (NYU & The New School) . . .
  • TOPS Locals
    GSEU: Columbia Grad Students. 1981 (National Writers Union). . . 2110 (NYU grad students). . . 2330 (Legal Services Workers). . . 2865 (U of California). . . 3030 (Graphic Artists). . .
• The Communications Workers of America (CWA). (AFL-CIO.)
  • Healthcare and Education sector.
  • Local 4730 (Indiana University) and the rest of district 4 (IL, IN, OH, MI, WI).
• The Coaltion of Graduate Employee Unions.
• AFSCME: American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees (AFL-CIO).
  • Council 8: Columbus OH.
  • OAPSE (AFSCME Local 4): Ohio Association of Public School Employees.
  • OCSEA (AFSCME Local 11): Ohio Civil Services Employees Association.
• The United Electrical Workers (UE).
  • The Education Department and a fine organizations list.
• Jobs With Justice and the Student Labor Action Project.
  Columbus OH Jobs With Justice.
• United Students Against Sweatshops.
• Adjunctnation (a.k.a. The Adjunct Advocate): usually wrong. My brief review is at the end of this newsletter.
• The AFL-CIO and Ohio AFL-CIO.
  UnionLabel.org
• The IWW: Industrial Workers of the World.
• The Association for Union Democracy.
• MassGlobalAction.org.
• The NCA: North Central Association (accrediting agency).
• Ohio State Government
  • SERB: the State Employment Relations Board.
  • The Supreme Court of Ohio.
• United States Government
  • National Labor Relations Board (NLRB).
  • The US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit; an archive of opinions (from 1/95 to 6/99).
  • The Department of Education and the National Library of Education.
  • The Department of Labor.
• The Franklin County Commissioners.
• The American Association of Community Colleges (AACC).
• Adjunctopia: marketplace for higher-ed adjunct positions. Looks like some sort of racket.
• LabourStart.
• LaborNet.
• Labor Notes.
• Labor Studies
  • A Labor Research Portal at Berkeley.
  • The Division of Labor Studies at Indiana U.
• The National Labor Committee: human rights advocacy.
• SEIU and District 1199.
• United University Professions at SUNY.
• The CPFA: California Part-time Faculty Association. Also the California Faculty Association, and the Faculty Association of California Community Colleges.
• The Portland Community College Faculty Federation (Oregon).
• The Adjunct Facutly Association at Oakton Community College (Illinois).
• The Professional Staff Congress at CUNY -- and still another fine links list.
• The adj-l mailing list.

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  May 2, 2008