Labor Initiative in Promoting Solidarity (IC LIPS)

May Day protest disputes college policy More than 20 students and faculty gathered Tuesday at the Free Speech Rock to bring awareness to climbing student debt and financial inequalities adjunct professors experience at Ithaca College.

Photos by Geri Silver

Thank you everyone for coming out to the rally today! Let's make sure IC works together to meet our demands!

Great article in the Ithacan about our Part-Time Professor Panel:

Faculty seek pay increase for adjuncts Full-time faculty and the Labor Initiative in Promoting Solidarity are taking a stand for part-time faculty who will not receive a raise for the second year in a row following the approval of the 2012-13 budget by the board of trustees.

Thank you everyone who came out to our Part-Time Professor Panel! We hope you all learned a lot! We sure did! Stay tuned for our rally on May 1...

Bus Drivers Reach Deal With TCAT Management | The Cornell Daily Sun After more than six months of heated negotiations between bus drivers and management over the terms of a contract, TCAT employees approved the final version of a new contract on Friday.

Come to our meeting tomorrow night at 7PM in Williams 211!

We will continue our discussion concerning student debt, the working conditions of adjunct/part-time professors, etc. We will also be planning events/actions for the remaining of the semester!

Student tuition and fees are increasing rapidly across the nation. At, IC we just passed the $50,000 mark. Check out our board next to the info. desk in Campus Center that illustrates IC student's financial struggles.

http://www.tcworkerscenter.org/2012/02/three-tompkins-county-businesses-newly-living-wage-certified/

Three Tompkins County Businesses Newly Living Wage-Certified : Tompkins County Workers’ Center The Tompkins County Workers’ Center is pleased to announce that we now have 75 Certified Living Wage Employers, having just added the following:

In debt? You might soon be in more. Read this article on expected tuition increases to be announced Feb. 16:

IC Students: Expect Tuition Increase in 2012-2013 | Buzzsaw Magazine In President Obama’s most recent State of the Union Address, he called on colleges and universities to make concerted efforts to keep tuition prices down. He said:

Please join us at our first meeting tonight in Williams 211 at 7pm!

Apple said audits revealed that 93 supplier facilities had records indicating that over half of workers exceeded a 60-hour weekly working limit. Apple said 108 facilities did not pay proper overtime as required by law. In 15 facilities, Apple found foreign contract workers who had paid excessive recruitment fees to labor agencies.

Apple Releases List of Its Suppliers for the First Time The company is following the lead of many other big corporations, which have released similar lists in the past.