The school has been part of United Auto Workers Local 7902 since 2005, and last negotiated a contract in 2014. That agreement originally expired in 2019, but was extended due to the pandemic by agreement from both sides.
That means part-time faculty have not had raises in over four years. Some faculty complain of needing to work a second or third job to make ends meet. “There is no remuneration for preparing and programming the class, grading the weekly assignments in my writing class, or for meeting with students in office hours,” Vincent Boucher, who has taught a journalism in fashion elective at Parsons for four years, told Artnet News in an email. “It’s estimated that, per course, we make about a third of what a full-time professor would make.”
The institution’s current offer is a small 3.5 percent wage increase, compared to the union’s ask of 10 percent. The New School claims that would amount to $200 million over the course of the contract, a huge chunk of its annual operating budget of $460 million.
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