YALE GRADUATE TEACHERS UNION PRESSES ON WITH STRUGGLE FOR NEGOTIATED CONTRACT Yale University graduate teachers unionized in February but are being stonewalled by an administration that refuses to negotiate with them.[...]
Posts Tagged ‘UW Unions’
February 2nd, 2017 - 5:44 am § in Misc., The Ave Scene
Why Public Unions Are Bad … Seattle’s Cops and Trump’s Feds
Meanwhile at the federal level: President-elect Donald Trump and the Republican-controlled Congress are drawing up plans to take on the government bureaucracy they have long railed against, by eroding job protections and grinding down benefits that federal workers have received for a generation. Hir[...]
September 29th, 2016 - 10:51 am § in The Ave Scene, UW
The UW Argues About A Union
A dialog from from AAUP listserv GAUTHAM P. REDDY to Faculty Amy, Congratulations on undertaking this fascinating and innovative study that demonstrates the benefit that unions have provided (and likely will continue to provide) for working people in our nation. It is unfortunate that union members[...]
UW abolishes shared governance
Dear UW faculty colleagues, The following message has been approved by the AAUP executive board for distribution to faculty. UW President Ana Mari Cauce circulated an email to faculty, staff and students (14th April) stating the current interim Provost Baldasty has performed in his role for the last[...]
Ending Tenure at the “other UW”
The University of Wisconsin was once a great University, a world leader, competitive with the best of the ivies because of its ability to attract world class faculty. That era is passing. Critical to the success of American Universities has been the principle of tenure. Tenure, as it is practi[...]
March 3rd, 2016 - 9:19 am § in Misc.
When Unions Cease Being (d)emocratic
Paul Burstein, AAUP LISTSERV A bit on research about democracy in unions: In 1956, the sociologists Seymour Martin Lipset, Martin Trow, and James S. Coleman published a book entitled Union Democracy, long considered a classic. It began by describing how rare it was for unions to remain internall[...]
February 25th, 2016 - 11:25 am § in Misc.
UW Food Fight
So, at long last, our AAUP listserv has been abused to post public shaming dossiers on individual faculty members, complete with insinuations about their politics and characters and paranoid speculations about hidden agendas. Dr. Kaiyala’s contemptible post transports us back to a dark peri[...]
Are “agency fees” not political?
Roberta Gold, AAUP UW Sudhir’s view jibes with everything I’ve read: SCOTUS mavens think Scalia’s death will create a hung Court in Friedrichs, which will, in turn, leave in place the 9th Circuit’s union-friendly decision. Further, the issue in Friedrichs is agency fees for[...]
February 17th, 2016 - 9:32 am § in Misc.
(Seattle) Vast Far-Left-Wing Conspiracy to Control UW Unmasked
The AAUP listserv is beginning to sound more than a bit like a Republican Presidential debate. While one side brings up the issues of politicization of the UW by SEIU, the other in a not so naive way, proclaims that is is shocked at claims that the SEIU and SEIU/UW have been associated with c[...]