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Posts Tagged ‘UNION’
October 11th, 2014 - 10:20 am § in Hypocrisy
A Union Brings Its Skills to Ebola in Africa
October 5th, 2014 - 11:27 am § in Schools & Colleges, The Ave Scene
WA state schools screwed by Union position to teacher evaluations
NY Times: The schools in Washington are caught in the political crossfire of a battle over education policy. Because the State Legislature has refused to require that teacher evaluations be based in part on student test scores, schools are being held to an outdated benchmark that is all but impossib[...]
September 27th, 2014 - 9:42 am § in America, Schools & Colleges
Shall We End Tenure?
The President of the UW AAUP, Rob Wood, addressed the non tenure issues at UWB and UWT as a labor issue. (see below) I suggest that he is missing the point. There are two critical questions : 1. Are UWB and UWT vocational schools or research campuses? Despite the quality of faculty at[...]
July 21st, 2014 - 11:49 pm § in Politics
SUBWAY UNIONIZES!
(based on a report from Huff Post) By 8 to 5, workers at a Subway location in Bloomsbury, N.J., on Friday voted in favor of joining the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union. One (pro union) worker said: “I am very relieved the election is over and very proud of my co-workers for hangin[...]
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[...]
January 4th, 2014 - 12:50 pm § in Misc.
UPDATE: Boeing’s Workers Vote 51% YES
UPDATE: As the kids say “I dare you!” … 51% Yes (originally posted Jan 3.) Now that the Machinists union accepted Boeing’s contract proposal, I dare WA STATE to go one further … Though the vote was only 51 percent, the effects will be massive. Seattle now has t[...]
January 3rd, 2014 - 1:58 pm § in The Ave Scene
Live Discussion of Boeing Vote As It Comes In
Click the logo or follow this link: Starts at 4PM.[...]
January 3rd, 2014 - 1:53 pm § in Misc.
Activists Push NO Vote by Machinists
Machinists listen to speakers encouraging union members to reject Boeing’s proposed contract offer at a rally Thursday. (KIRO Radio Photo/Tim Haeck) Boeing Machinists gather at ‘vote no’ rally in Seattle[...]
Election 2012: The local scene
Joel Connelly at the PI has an insightful view of the disarray onf Washington State Democrats as we approach to 2012 primary. Where the Rs are built around the core of vested wealth, the D’s old core are the unions, especially the teachers’ unions. This establishment, represents the jo[...]
February 27th, 2012 - 7:24 pm § in Schools & Colleges
Unions vs Teacher: Who is the bad guy?
Who Breaks a Butterfly Upon a Wheel by Bill Lyne An Open Letter to Nick Hanauer Our friends over at Publicola have recently been hosting a rousing debate between big bucks Democrat Nick Hanauer and WEA President Mary Lindquist on teachers’ unions and K-12 schools. Here at the blog, we have a har[...]