Labor Leaders Call for Collective Efforts to Reduce Reliance on Adjuncts

The strain on university budgets from the economic crisis should serve as a catalyst for faculty unions and college administrators to build more mutual trust so they work together to reverse higher education’s reliance on adjunct labor, Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers, said here on Monday.

Ms. Weingarten, giving a lunchtime address during the annual labor conference of the National Center for the Study of Collective Bargaining in Higher

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