That’s right folks, like a phoenix here comes the CCCCs Labor Caucus once again. If you are at CCCCs (or in SF) and want to attend, check out the event listing on facebook:
Some years ago, Janet Atwill, Don Lazere and others began organizing a Labor Caucus within CCCC. In the meantime, there’s been lots of great work on labor issues in our field—temporary/adjunct faculty, gender/race/harassment, valuing administrative work, tenure and promotion, and so on.
However, the current economic climate and aggressively anti-labor strategies/tactics so pervasive both within and beyond the academy have prompted a group of us to believe that it’s time to resurrect the Labor Caucus. Many of us are unionized already, and can benefit from increased networking and collaboration across the country. Others want and need to be unionized, and can benefit from the support and expertise of current unions/union-organizers. And finally, we believe that the CCCC can and must do more to emphasize the labor aspects of our work to faculty, administrators, managers, and broader public interest groups—work that the Labor Caucus would most certainly participate in.
As a first step towards (re)forming the Labor Caucus, we are hosting an Interest Meeting at the CCCC for any and all interested folks. The essentials—
Date: Thurs, March 12
Time: 5-7 pm
Location: Serrano Hotel, Golden Gate Room
405 Taylor St.
Hope to see you there.
Seth Kahn, on behalf of the CCCC Labor Caucus Resurrection Interest Group
Tags: academic labor, advocacy, cccc, CCCCs Labor Caucus, comp/rhet, composition, composition conference, meeting, rhetoric, san francisco
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