Adjuncts' political power on the rise?

At some places, they head the faculty senates.
http://chronicle.com/article/Off-the-Tenure-Trackat/146889/?cid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en

Undoubtedly unionization is a factor, if this is a trend.

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