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Tell Applebee's: Do NOT cut workers' hours to avoid ObamaCare

We will not patronize your businesses if you go ahead with cutting your employees' hours because of Obamacar.  By doing this, you are showing America you don't care about the health and welfare of your hard-working and loyal employees who help make your companies successful

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Equal Pay for Equal Work, by Carol Jordan on SignOn,

Part time community college instructors earn, on average, 50 cents on the dollar compared to full timers. Moreover, we receive no benefits, no tenure, and no pension. We need pay equity NOW! 

Better Pay for Adjuncts: Stop their Exploitation, by Ana Maria Fores Tamayo on SignOn,

Better our children's education: demand better pay for underpaid adjuncts who teach over 60% of classes nationwide for a fraction of the pay and under substandard working conditions. Their working conditions are your children's learning conditions.

Support Professional Staff Congress/CUNY's action against Pathways, austerity education & for highered quality by PSC/CUNY on Action AFT

Higher ed's watershed CTU moment is here. The “reform” agenda that brought teaching to the test and privatization to K-12 comes to higher ed. Pathways replaces 40 years of public policy focus on college access withincreased graduation rates over academic quality.

Otis College Of Art and Design: Rehire Robert Summers Having a Disability Is No Reason to NOT! by Robert Summers on Change,

Temporarily disabled, I went on medical leave and CA disability insurance...Despite a strong teaching record, I was shut out and told my contract would not be renewed

East West University Chancellor Khan: rehire local leaders of UAFA/IEANEA, by Curtis Keyes on Change.org

East West University has targeted local union leaders and not renewed their contracts. Curtis Keyes and Elvert Howard started an adjunct faculty union to negotiate over working conditions and the university has retaliated by cancelling their classes.

Support the Student Loan Forgiveness Act of 2012, by Robert Applebaum on SignOn,

Millions of former students, including adjuncts, are being crushed under the weight of their education debts. Student loan forgiveness is a REAL economic stimulus and jobs plan..