Where You Sunny Read It First 77/60 THE TUFTS DAILY Est. 1980 VOLUME LXVI, NUMBER 11 FRiday, SEPTEMBER 20, 2013 TUFTSDAILY.COM Adjunct faculty to vote on union rights BY ABIGAIL FELDM A N A ND HUNTER RY A N frozen for five years,” he said. Daily Editorial Board In response to the possibility of a union on campus, university administrators Part-time lecturers of the School of such as Dean of Academic Affairs for Arts Arts and Sciences will this week cast and Sciences James Glaser and Dean of their ballots in an election determin- the School of Arts and Sciences Joanne ing whether adjunct faculty will form Berger-Sweeney sent a series of emails to a union under Service Employees part-time faculty in hopes of deterring the KYRA STURGILL / THE TUFTS DAILY International Union’s (SEIU) Adjunct movement, Klatt said. Stop & Shop has agreed to continue funding a shuttle to and from campus this semester Action campaign, which aims to improve Many faculty members responded nega- after determining there was enough student interest. benefits, job security and pay for part- tively to the emails, according to Klatt. time professors at universities. “It’s not at all credible to try to convince Many part-time faculty members lack the us that we would be better off if we didn’t Stop & Shop shuttle returns benefits that full-time professors receive, have the right to sit down at a table as according to Andrew Klatt, romance legally protected peoples — that it’s better languages lecturer and member of the for us if the university continues to make all part-time faculty organizing committee. the decisions,” he said. due to student interest Benefits include “just cause” protection Glaser told the Daily in an email that BY ABIGAIL FELDM A N A ND SA R A H ZHENG market decided to extend the service to from arbitrary job termination, security the university would accept the results of Daily Editorial Board this year, TCU Parliamentarian Brian Tesser, in class reappointment and a transparent the election but fears a union would lead who helped lead the project last year, said. evaluation process, he said. to administrative difficulties and a more The Stop & Shop shuttle, which offers “For now, at least, it’s up to Stop & Shop Klatt and his supporting colleagues hope confrontational relationship with part- transportation from campus to the market’s how long [the shuttle] stays, because they’re to gain these securities by unionizing. time staff. Fellsway Plaza location, is back for a second the ones funding it, and if they at any point Voting will remain open until Sept. 25 for “The administration supports the year after the supermarket chain deter- decide to end it, we sort of have to just go the 270 adjunct School of Arts and Sciences right of our part-time faculty to decide mined there was enough student interest. from there,” Tesser, a sophomore, said. “But faculty members at Tufts. The National for themselves whether or not they want Following the shuttle’s first trip of the I don’t think they will anytime soon because Labor Relations Board will announce the to unionize and bargain collectively,” he year on Wednesday, Tufts Community it’s based on a lot of extra business that they decision next Thursday. said. “We encourage all of our part-time Union (TCU) Senate Services Committee wouldn’t have had otherwise.” Klatt expressed confidence that the elec- faculty to exercise their right to vote since Chair Christie Maciejewski, who facilitates The shuttle, operated by Joseph’s tion will result in a union. every one of them will be bound by the the shuttle service, said she was glad to see Transportation, runs biweekly on “I think the union-organizing campaign election results.” the service return to campus after its debut Wednesday and Thursday nights, departing has been so tremendously successful pre- Glaser said that the emails were meant last spring. from the upper patio of the Mayer Campus cisely because people are hurt,” Klatt said. to clarify legal concepts, given that this is a “I’m really excited it’s happening Center at 7:45 p.m. and returning to cam- “People were insulted. People feel power- major decision for faculty. again,” Maciejewski, a senior, said. “We pus at 9:45 p.m. less unless we organize.” “We felt obligated to provide as much did it last semester, and that was kind of Maciejewski said she heard a signifi- In the wake of the 2008 economic crisis, information as we could about the legal our test run.” cant amount of positive feedback about many staff and faculty members saw their implications of unionization and col- Stop & Shop last semester agreed to the shuttle last semester. pay frozen by the administration. Although lective bargaining and what it might finance a shuttle for student use as long as “I’ve had a lot of people tell me that normal pay arrangements were eventually involve,” he said. there was enough interest in the Tufts com- they’re glad it’s here now,” she said. “It’s reinstated, part-time faculty had to wait the According to Glaser, all faculty mem- munity, according to Maciejewski. After longest, Klatt said. evaluating the shuttle’s success, the super- see SHUTTLE, page 2 “As far as I know, no other salaries were see UNION, page 2 Candidates compete for Markey’s vacated House seat BY CAITLIN MCCLURE “Please let [Markey] know that Wessel said. “He’s just getting the Daily Editorial Board the people of MA did not send ball rolling, getting his office set up, him down there to vote ‘present,’ and we’re hoping for great things.” Senator Edward Markey they sent him down there to at Democrats will now look to fill (D-Mass.) is getting comfortable least vote,” Former Massachusetts Markey’s vacated seat, represent- in Congress after winning the spe- Republican Senator Scott Brown ing Massachusetts’s 5th congres- cial election on June 25 to fill now (LA ’81) wrote on Facebook. “He sional district in the House of Secretary of State John Kerry’s gets a check, he should vote. I did Representatives, to partner with vacated seat. Markey gave his first not agree with John Kerry on much, eight other Democratic represen- speech on the floor of the Senate but at least he would have had the tatives from Massachusetts. Wessel this Wednesday, making promises guts to vote. Markey said he needs expressed his enthusiasm about to improve legislation on clean more time to analyze the informa- the upcoming special election. energy, Internet privacy and gun tion. He sits on the committee that “We hope that with the special control, according to an article gets all the information.” election, [we can show] that the published in the Boston Herald Tufts Republicans President Democratic Party in Massachusetts on Wednesday. Bennett Gillogly endorsed this is not going to fall asleep at the JUSTIN MCCALLUM / TUFTS DAILY ARCHIVES Tufts Democrats worked hard position given Markey’s voting wheel [after Scott Brown’s win] Democratic candidate and Tufts alumnus Carl Sciortino (LA ‘00) will last semester on Markey’s cam- history. in 2010,” Wessel said, referring appear on the ballot for the 5th congressional district’s special election to paign, and members are happy to “Ed Markey’s [37]-year tenure in to Brown’s unexpected win over fill Senator Ed Markey’s vacated House seat. see the Massachusetts native in his the House of Representatives has Attorney General Martha Coakley new position on Capitol Hill. always been characterized by leg- nearly three years ago. “We’re a come to Tufts, or at least to arrange “After the primary, Tufts “We’re proud to have another islative inaction,” he said. “I would strong force that has a great ground some sort of meeting between the Republicans look[s] forward to great democrat in the Senate,” hope that Senator Markey would game and a huge talent pool, and candidates and Tufts students and supporting the Republican candi- President of Tufts Democrats Jacob have taken more of a leadership we’re ready to keep on chugging to also have all sorts of people, date in a special election focusing Wessel said. role in the Senate Foreign Relations when it comes to the Mass. 5 race, whether they are engaged in Tufts on the state and national economy, Politicians with links to Committee hearings.” or races in 2014. The party is as Democrats or not — engaging and an evaluation of the president’s Massachusetts, however, have been Wessel defended the newly- strong as ever, and we’re glad to see with the campaigns, whether that’s policies,” Gillogly said. critical of Markey’s early Senate elected Senator and shared high that it’s that way.” interning, or volunteering, or going With the first round of voting performance. Most recently, his hopes for his time in the Senate. With the Democratic primaries to events,” Wessel said. quickly approaching — 25 days decision to vote “present” during a “He’s new, he’s the least senior coming up in less than a month, Tufts Republicans have chosen a away at press time — campaigns Foreign Relations Committee vote member of the Senate right now, Tufts Democrats is in the process different strategy for the primaries, will have to move fast to engage the on a Sept. 4 resolution — one that so that’s a weird shift for him, from of looking at all six candidates in declining to endorse any candidate student vote. would give President Obama lim- being one of the most senior mem- order to decide which to support.