For almost 25 years, The Wells Middle College High School has been a joint effort of the UW and the Seattle Public Schools, giving disenfranchised students a different, personalized and highly successful education through a curriculum based on social justice and a critical pedagogy. Apparently[...]
Posts Tagged ‘UNION’
January 26th, 2016 - 6:48 pm § in Misc.
Seattle Public Schools Close Programs
January 13th, 2016 - 1:16 am § in The Ave Scene
Seattle Needs Cooks!
Seattle has an explosive new growth of chefs. Seems as if every new Seattle restaurant has an eager wannabe James Beard finalists. … it is getting hard to find a place that just serves a good meal! As the Washington Post discusses, these elitist chefs need someone to .. well to cook! R[...]
December 20th, 2015 - 12:29 am § in Misc.
UW Faculty Leaders Oppose SEIU
Opinion in Seattle Times: Unionization is like throwing sand in the gears of what is, by any measure, an institution that performs at an extraordinarily high level. Paul B. Hopkins Ed Lazowska Opinion in The Seattle Times THE Service Employees International Union has launched a campaign to uni[...]
First it was cheap labor in South Carolina, then the cheap labor moved to China, next .. robots
Assembly line workers in Hon Hai’s factories (Picture Getty) In the future, we will all be on benefits, while rich people use robots to make even MORE money. That’s the dark future hinted at by Samsung’s new ‘big project’ – a plan to build robots cheaper even than the miserably underpaid[...]
October 19th, 2015 - 1:54 am § in Schools & Colleges, The Ave Scene
With a Faculty Senate, Why Should the UW Faculty Need a Union?
The anonymity of the email at the left aside , I think the content is accurate and raises the issue of SEIU and how it uses the dues as well as the weakness of the UW’s concept of shared governance. 1. I oppose the SEIU because it is much more than a union of workers, it is a [&hellip[...]
October 17th, 2015 - 10:12 am § in Misc.
Why the UW Faculty needs a union: A case where being unionized would have been helpful.
Sharona E. Gordon <[email protected]> 2:22 PM (19 hours ago) When I was negotiating for a position as an assistant professor at UW, I made sure my offer letter described the position as a “state line” position that would be tenure track. About two years after I started, I learned that I wa[...]
October 13th, 2015 - 6:22 pm § in Misc.
Applesauce
“If you’ve got a factory full of children in China assembling phones for 17 cents an hour, you’ve got a lot of nerve calling someone else opportunistic.”[...]
October 10th, 2015 - 8:46 am § in Misc.
Paranoia at the UW
October 9 Dear John, As a longtime labor activist, let me assure you that Cauce’s message is a classic example of intimidation. First, many employees who receive such “helpful” communications are fearful that administration is watching them simply because they received the message. Second, [...]
July 2nd, 2015 - 8:57 am § in Misc.
Will Unions FINALLY Organize The New Digital Workforce?
The decision by Salon employees, announced in a press release by the union Thursday, suggests that Gawker’s high-profile union campaign may indeed have a domino effect in new media, which is generally a union-free world at the moment. A statement signed by all 26 editorial employees said that [...]
Why The UW Will Die As A Premier School II
Amy Hagopian, PhD Dear Colleagues, Those of you on upper campus may not be fully aware of how faculty get paid on the south side of Pacific Street. In most departments down here, faculty are responsible for putting together their own paychecks. You get some percentage points of your FTE for teaching[...]