September 2007 begins a heightened effort by the Temple Adjunct Organizing Committee to organize a union. If you are dissatisfied with your working conditions, if you have questions to ask about your working conditions, if you want to change the working conditions for all adjuncts at Temple, this is for you!

Now it is easier than ever to find out what’s going on and to get involved. Sign up on the information form on this page, and we’ll be in touch with you right away.

If you like to write, volunteer to write for this web site. We will use this space to discuss questions and issues about adjuncts here and everywhere. Use the comments section of the information form to volunteer to be a writing contributor and we will be in touch with you.

If you like to organize, volunteer to be a departmental representative. Being a departmental rep is not a big job. It simply involves keeping up to date from semester to semester on who the current adjuncts in your department are and being a conduit of two way communication between the steering committee and the adjuncts in your department. Use the comments section of the information form to volunteer to be a department representative and we will be in touch with you.

Of course, if you would like to join the steering committee, with broader planning and organizing responsibility, we would be delighted to have you. We’d like to have all the department reps on the steering committee, but we know some of you have time issues, and we really need department reps around the University. Use the comments section of the information form to volunteer to be on the steering committee and we will be in touch with you. The next meeting is March 16.

On April 14, we will be doing training for all interested adjuncts--especially all the steering committee, writers, and department reps--which will result in an organizing plan and action steps. If you don’t know whether you are ready to take on these roles, come to the training and get more information. Use the comments section of the information form to let us know you are interested in this training and we will be in touch with you.