Dear Stephen, Every day, educators are making a difference in children’s lives—and they do it despite staggering obstacles. Recently, the AFT collaborated with the Badass Teachers Association to survey educators on how their working conditions affect them, and the results show that the obstacles[...]
Posts Tagged ‘UNION’
May 19th, 2015 - 1:26 am § in Misc.
The American Federation of Teachers Asks for Sympathy For Teachers
April 30th, 2015 - 1:19 am § in The Ave Scene
WASTATE Teachers Threaten to Strike
The continued meme of the teacher’s unions is that teachers are overworked and underpaid. That claim is likely not true. For one thing, the cries that teachers work hard seem a bit much in society where many others with equal qualifications work more than one job or get along as contract wor[...]
April 17th, 2015 - 8:39 am § in Misc.
North Charleston, South Carolina .. the OTHER story
This is also the town that enticed Boeing to build a plant there to avoid paying union wages. This town north of Charleston SC has recently become famous for the murder by a policeman of an unarmed black man trying to run away. The Mayor (a white man in a city where the largest ethnic […][...]
April 2nd, 2015 - 7:30 am § in The Ave Scene
No tipping at Ivar’s
Last night my wife and I ate at IVAR’s to celebrate their new tipping policy. Ivar’s is going the whole way … raising workers to a real wage … $15/hr .. and doing away with tipping Management is serious about paying workers a fair wage. Prices on the menus will rise by 20%. T[...]
March 30th, 2015 - 10:24 am § in The Ave Scene
BREAKING NEWS: Ivar’s to raise restaurant workers’ wages to $15 right away
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March 29th, 2015 - 10:57 am § in The Ave Scene
NOT A JOKE .. April First is a Big Deal if You Work for Low Wages in Seattle!
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March 27th, 2015 - 8:03 am § in Misc.
UW Prof Shocked, Shocked the UW PR Guy Claims UW Can Not Pay $15 Minimum Wage
Rod Palmquist, AAUP Listserv: Speaking as a former union rep that has participated in years of higher ed bargaining at UW, WSU, Western, Central and Evergreen, I’m very surprised that an administrator as knowledgeable as Norm would make such a misleading statement: “You can’t go and change[...]
January 9th, 2015 - 10:36 am § in Misc.
Fair Pay For Sex Workers
WHILE US ARGUES ABOUT PAY AT MCDONALDS, GERMANY WANTS FAIR PAY FOR SEX WORKERS BERLIN (AP) – Germany’s biggest political parties have agreed to ban the so-called “flat-rate” sex offered by some brothels in the country. The aim for this is to allow for individuals within the i[...]
October 21st, 2014 - 9:45 am § in Schools & Colleges, The Ave Scene
Umbundling Tenure
From Inside Higher Education: The fact is that much of the debate, in the United States and elsewhere, about the challenges facing higher education is focused in the wrong direction. Rather than constantly squeezing the professoriate and trying to ensure maximum productivity in narrowly defined area[...]
Unions and Labor Suicide
HANJIN LEAVING PORTLAND In the ’70s – back when there were lots of longshore jobs – ILWU guys were getting market-rate wages. As ports began to containerize those jobs started disappearing and that’s when the labor disputes began. Instead of fighting the containerization and job loss[...]