
The attacks on tenure are really just part of an orchestrated attempt to lower labor standards by decreasing job security for workers across the board while weakening higher education.
Helena Worthen is author of What Did You Learn at Work Today? Forbidden lessons of Labor Education, from Hardball Press. Originally a contingent activist with the California Federation of Teachers AFL/CIO, she has worked with unions in Pennsylvania, Illinois and California.
The attacks on tenure are really just part of an orchestrated attempt to lower labor standards by decreasing job security for workers across the board while weakening higher education.
The rising movement among contingent faculty has pushed bills onto CA Gov. Newsom’s desk and into the budget reconciliation process in Congress.