At universities across the nation, the more than 50% of the primary instruction of undergraduates is now done by part-time or non-tenure-track academics like graduate assistants, lecturers, adjuncts, post-doctoral fellows, working fellows, field service faculty, and others. This represents a major de-skilling of the profession.
Graduate Assistants United stands in solidarity with all contingent academics and supports collective bargaining rights for those who democratically elect a union at their workplace.
For a declaration of principles from one of the nation's largest meetings of contingent workers, see:
Declaration of Principles.
Many adjuncts, or part-time faculty, work at our university. UF has largely avoided the employment of adjuncts on the scale of other major universities, mostly thanks to the use of graduate assistant labor. However, this is changing. As faculty lines stagnate, tenure lines are not re-filled, and more students enroll, UF continues to increase the percentage of primary teaching done by "contingent" academics like grads and adjuncts. Adjuncts and graduates together do more than 50% of the primary instruction at our institution, the same as the national average for all college level instruction in the United States.
Althought by law adjuncts are not part of either the faculty or
graduate assistant bargaining unit, GAU expresses its solidarity with
all of our academic co-workers. Adjuncts are welcome to attend
GAU social events.
Click Here for GAU's archived
material on Post-doctoral fellows.
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