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Greetings! News from the National is a regular electronic
newsletter from the American Federation of Teachers Higher Education
division. It includes links to stories on the
AFT Higher Education web site about higher education issues, AFT
affiliates, and other labor-related stories.
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June 2004
prior issue
Grad Employee
Tells IRS: Don't Hit Us with New FICA Tax
Eliminating the exemption from Social Security taxes for graduate
employees will create severe hardship for these workers and may
force many to drop out of graduate school, an AFT leader told IRS
officials last
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Union Objects to
For-Profit Slant of House Higher Education Bill
The AFT this week strongly objected to provisions of a proposed
higher education bill that the union says are skewed toward
for-profit institutions. H.R. 4283, the College Access and
Opportunity Act of 2004,
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Victor Valley
Adjuncts Choose AFT
After two and a half contentious years, more than 400 part-time
faculty at Victor Valley College in California are now represented
by a union of their own choosing--the AFT.
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AFT Fights IRS Rule
Change that Hurts Grad Employees.
The AFT and other members of the higher education community are
vigorously fighting an IRS rule change that could make graduate
employees liable for paying Social Security taxes, or FICA, on their
stipends. Currently, the employees are exempt from paying this
payroll tax.
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Oregon GTFs Call for
Vote on Summer Strike.
The executive council of the
Graduate Teaching Fellows Federation (GTFF) at the University of
Oregon last week unanimously called for a strike vote by the summer
membership after battling with the university for seven months at
the bargaining table.
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AFT Opposes House Higher Education Bill
The AFT is not supporting the proposed College Access and
Opportunity Act of 2004 (H.R. 4283), which Republican leaders on the
U.S. House of Representatives education committee introduced May 6.
The bill addresses student loan provisions of the Higher Education
Act, which Congress is working on reauthorizing this year.
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Californians Seek 'Missing' Students.
California’s
community colleges have lost 175,000 students, officials estimate,
because of a 60 percent fee hike last year. Now, with a new governor
committed to rejecting tax hikes to address continued deficits, many
worry that the numbers of the missing will continue to climb.
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Ohio Fed Pushes
Bargaining Bill.
What’s it like to be a "roads scholar" and sole family breadwinner
on a salary of less than $20,000 a year, with no benefits? Jean
Taddie, an adjunct professor at the University of Akron’s Wayne
College and two other institutions, took a moment to describe it to
Ohio legislators March 9.
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