And that s why we have to keep fighting. It was late afternoon when student Nana Henderson came to the mike. She spoke about how much her adjunct teachers at the City College Center for Worker Education were helping her. Henderson, who enrolled in college after many years as a grassroots activist in Harlem, sees a connection between adjuncts and community organizers. We re both working not just for ourselves, but to improve the quality of life for others.
Adjuncts understand what it is to struggle.
You are all my comrades. The fact that adjunct concerns have been ignored for so long brought a special intensity to much of the testimony. Many called the day historic. Working with the PSC Strength in Numbers Campaign to enroll adjuncts in the union, as well as with other academic, labor and social justice groups, it plans to intensify and broaden its organizing efforts. It has taken adjuncts a long time to find our voice, but we re going to keep going, just as did the longshoremen and the garment workers, the coal miners and the hospital workers, the actors, screenwriters, transit workers, and musicians.