The North American Alliance For Fair Employment (NAFFE) is an alliance of organizations across a broad range of constituencies affected by problems associated with nonstandard work, such as part-time, temporary and contract employment. We stand for equal treatment (pay, benefits and protections under the law) regardless of employment status. Our work is part of the broader fight to ensure that working people have the right and opportunity to provide for themselves, their families and their communities.
NAFFE has a 13-person steering committee representing the broad diversity of organizations and individuals involved in this work. The organization has a number of working groups. These include temp work, message/media/public education, policy, prison labor, immigration, health and safety, research/analysis, and organizing (overcoming divisions among low-wage workers). Contingent faculty are the new teaching majority on campus. Their work conditions and wages resemble those of their fellow contingent workers in other sectors than it does their academic peers. But they are fighting back. Worker Center Strategies is the first of a series on organizing and advocacy strategies to be released in the coming year. A second working paper on strategic planning for legislative campaigns on contingent work issues will appear early this summer. The purpose of this series is to raise questions and provide information necessary for effective strategy. The working papers present various aspects of social movement building designed to benefit workers in contingent jobs and to address the social issue of contingent work.