Let me be very clear .. I am pro union. However, I think THE JOB of any union must be to stand up for and promote the wages and benefits workers receive. That can create a conflict of interest. For example, there is no obvious reason that the two major teachers’ unions should be take[...]
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September 23rd, 2014 - 12:41 pm § in Schools & Colleges, The Ave Scene
Unions Meddling in Seattle’s Effort to Create Universal Pre School
April 19th, 2014 - 10:55 am § in Schools & Colleges, The Ave Scene
The UW vs the Unions
One of the UW unions representing classified staff, the Washington Federation of State Employees (WFSE), has released a report on its labor relations with the University. I’m writing to share this report with interested UW AAUP members. It is attached as a PDF to this message, and can also be [...]
April 7th, 2014 - 4:26 pm § in Misc.
Husky Basketball WINS! Point Guard Speaks Out For Union As Team Wins NCAA Championship
Star Point Guard, Gets Award As Outstanding Player, Needs Food Shabazz Napier, point guard for the national Div. 1 Husky basketball champs and the outstanding player in Monday’s final game, recently told reporters he understands why student athletes need a union: Napier told reporters th[...]
March 31st, 2014 - 1:30 pm § in Misc.
Stanford Warns Staff About Comments on Union For Atheletes
Stanford Warns All Employees to Send Inquiries About Player-Union Talk to university Spokesman. Following the ruling last week that football players at Northwestern University could organize, Brad Wolverton of The Chronicle of Higher Education called a handful of private colleges to see how they we[...]
March 26th, 2014 - 2:17 pm § in Misc.
The AAUP Should Take a Stand For Unionizing the Huskies!
Northwestern U. Football Players Can Unionize, Labor Board Rules The UW chapter of the AAUP has been very supportive of the working rights of non-tenured faculty. The argument has been that these faculty function as workers and therefore need the protection of a union. While I wish that need did n[...]
Chomsky on Unionizing Universities
Noam Chomsky Addresses the Adjunct Faculty Association of the United Steelworkers Edited transcript of remarks given by Chomsky via Skype on 4 February 2014 to a gathering of members and allies of the Adjunct Faculty Association of the United Steelworkers in Pittsburgh, PA. The tra[...]
August 27th, 2012 - 8:42 am § in Schools & Colleges
Election 2012 .. The Republican union issues come to the campus!
Calif RAs to Get Union Rights? By Bob Grant The California legislature takes steps to broaden the ability of graduate students to unionize by extending collective bargaining rights to research assistants.[...]
August 15th, 2012 - 9:01 am § in Schools & Colleges
Breaking News: Boston’s Northeastern University to open campus in South Lake Union
Northeastern University is coming to Seattle. This is BIG news. Northeastern is anything but another Western Governors or Delphi. Northeastern is very much a serious university built on a VERY different model than anything we have here. Its Boston campus offers high quality academic training, ea[...]
July 11th, 2012 - 8:43 pm § in Politics, Schools & Colleges
Leroy Searle: The conviction that universities should do so is as time-honored and legitimate as the conviction that we should teach students to think, to read, and to write. But the way we are doing it now surely is not sustainable.
This is a very thoughtful post by Leroy Searle. Dr. Searle was responding to a long stream of UW emails about a 5% pay raise the faculty union at Western Washington had negotiated with their administration. Most of thread was woven out of the usual angst about why UW faculty does d not ha[...]
Rightwing school board provokes Denver-area student strikes
More than 1,200 students walked out of six Denver-area suburban high schools yesterday to protest a newly-elected school board’s attempts to force-feed them conservative ideology. Teachers at the schools are also upset with the board’s efforts to censor education, and staged sick-outs [...]