Kevin Harrington, Vice President, Rapid Transit Operations, TWU Local 100, Nastaran Mohit, Occupy Sandy and the Laundry Workers Center, Michael Premo, Occupy Sandy, Judy Sheridan-Gonzales, NYS Nurses Association, Moderated by Amy Muldoon, CWA Local 1106 on “Resist Recover Rebuild: Labor Speaks out After Sandy” (December 7, 2012)
Andrew Ross, Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis, NYU, Leina Bocar, writer and organizer, Chris Kasper, artist and organizer, Suzanne Collado, labor and student community organizer, NYU Moderated by Stephanie Luce, Murphy Institute for Worker Education on “Drowning in Debt: An Organizing Challenge” (November 30th 2012)
Penny Lewis is an Assistant Professor of Labor Studies at The Murphy Institute
Years of organizing, agitating, occupying and strategizing have brought the issue of low wage and precarious work to the forefront of contemporary economic discussion. Fast food and retail are not the only sectors where such low wage work has become the norm: higher education is increasingly structured along the same logic. One of the central slogans taken up by students and professors at today’s May Day march and rally is “May Day $5K” – a call for a minimum payment of $5,000 per college class taught by part-time and contingent faculty. This demand is being made alongside calls for job security, health benefits, and other improved working conditions for the contingent instructional staff that now comprises 75 percent of all college faculty members. Shamefully, CUNY pays adjuncts closer to $3,000 per class, and it’s not an outlier.
This film was initially listed in The New Labor Forum Spring 2014 Issue
www.afj.org, 2013
A fifteen-minute film urges Americans to get
involved to preserve a woman’s right to choose
about abortion.
This book was initially listed in The New Labor Forum Spring 2014 Issue
By Sahar Delijani
Atria, 2013
The author was born in 1983 in a prison in Iran
where her parents were jailed for their political
activities. In this can’t-put-it-down novel, she
tells the story of several families who lived
through and emerged from those traumatic times.
This book was initially listed in The New Labor Forum Spring 2014 Issue
By Jordan Goodman
Verso, 2013
The famous African-American singer and actor
became a leading voice for civil rights at home
and abroad in the 1930s and beyond. This biography
draws on internal government archives to
focus on harassment and repression waged
against Robeson by congressional committees,
the FBI, and other agencies.
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