T.L. Mack-Piccone articles

TL Mack-Piccone is an independent scholar, former adjunct professor, and more recently, a labor organizer with SEIU Local 200United in New York State. As a former contingent academic, she understands from first-hand experience the plight of adjunct faculty and chose to join the Service Employees International Union as an organizer to fight for adjunct professors’ rights, protections and dignity in the American university system.

She is committed to research, writing, public action, and organizing to resist the exploitation of not only her adjunct colleagues and students, but all workers in New York State and the nation. For more information about adjuncts’ fight for equity in New York and elsewhere, go to www.adjunctaction.org, contact her at tmack@local200united.org, or follow her on Twitter @tmackenglish.

A Matter of Rights: The Deeper Implications of Harris v. Quinn

July 16, 2014 by TL Mack-Piccone Leave a Comment

Harris v. Quinn is deeply troubling. While the case concerned workers and unions, the potentially negative decision could leave our most vulnerable citizens without the full protection of the federally mandated Medicaid program; that is the problem nobody seems to be talking about.

Taking on Hired Education: Labor’s Latest Goliath

January 25, 2014 by TL Mack-Piccone 6 Comments

Taking on “Hired” Education, Labor’s Latest Goliath: Identifying the Problems and Potentialities in the Fight for Adjunct Justice. Adjuncts are standing together to kick off 2014 with fights for equity in higher education at a college or university near you!