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My Effort to Get My Union to Support a Demand in Negotiations for Equal Pay for Equal Work

By Rick Baum Under the two-tier system in higher education (that has continued for more than 40 years), the pay packages per class taught of two equally qualified and experienced faculty remain extremely unequal. The […]

2025-07-16Activism in Education, e-Newsletter, One-Tier Model
Parity Pay or Equal Pay?

“Pay parity” is a term perennially associated with part-time faculty in a two-tiered workplace, not part-time workers in other professions paid on the same basis as full-time workers, such as part-time engineers, physicians, retail cashiers, or K-12 teachers. The “parity pay” bill, AB-1752...

2022-06-30e-Newsletter, Educational Reform, Publications

My Effort to Get My Union to Support a Demand in Negotiations for Equal Pay for Equal Work