What have others gained through collective bargaining?
When faculty discuss their concerns as a group, they quickly realize that they are not alone in their (sometimes longstanding) complaints. Gaining a unified voice, change can be dramatic and beneficial. When the part-time faculty at Columbia College adopted collective bargaining in 1998, the negotiating team asked to be paid equally to tenured/tenure track faculty for their teaching. Their first contract provided for pay increases of up to 100 percent. Roosevelt University adjuncts won a 60 percent increase in their first contract.
