Homines libenter quod volunt credunt
Posted in Disingenuous on Apr 9th, 2016
For those following at home: The beginnings. Tearing up my card. The blob. The two-snowball toss Clamming up More clamming up Using the students as — Wasting money. Indeed. Social justice advocates committing social justice crimes The intergenerational transfer is complete.
Posted in Disingenuous, Special Privilege on Apr 9th, 2016
Here was the unfriendly note I sent to the students who are openly advocating for damaging my relationship with my employer: P.S none of us are in the business of smashing windows and regardless of our ideological differences, … Also we (Margaret joe and I) expected that you’d be anti Union and gave SEIU heads up and they […]
Posted in Disingenuous, labor markets on Apr 9th, 2016
This is the response from one of the students I know. Of course, none of my questions are answered and I will give you $100 if you can guess how quickly the SEIU guys took to get back to me about this. OK, that is a bad bet on my part. They of course have […]
Posted in Disingenuous, labor markets on Apr 9th, 2016
Now long time readers of TUW understand how I feel about symbolism. I do not view it as harmless. And long time readers are probably familiar with the change in campus culture that has happened over the past decade or so. As such, you understand that nothing in this “discussion” from the student or even […]
Posted in Disingenuous, labor markets on Apr 9th, 2016
After getting nothing from Mr. Holt or the SEIU for a couple of weeks, a little bit of information about the organizing effort trickled out onto campus. A student mentioned to me a Campus Times article in support of the effort, I did not see it. But then, in what turns out to be fairly verbatim […]
Posted in Disingenuous, labor markets on Apr 9th, 2016
So, after two weeks of not hearing anything back from the SEIU organizers, I followed up with several e-mails asking for clarification, communication and answers to more questions. I have still not heard back from them, and have both invited Mr. Holt to visit me in my office when I had plenty of time to […]
Posted in Disingenuous, labor markets on Apr 9th, 2016
So, all of the previous correspondence happened by March 22nd. I replied to Mr. Holt’s note via e-mail that day. And now here we are on April 9th, almost three weeks after I asked him additional questions, and I have not heard back from Mr. Holt. Here, below, is how I responded to his e-mail […]
Posted in Disingenuous, labor markets on Apr 9th, 2016
After some back and forth, Mr. Holt finally decided to answer my questions, well, sort of (his answers in bold, my new responses in color below them): Did U of R faculty members reach out to you in an effort to help them? U of R faculty did reach out to us. In fact there […]
Posted in Disingenuous, labor markets on Apr 9th, 2016
Just to recap. No one that I know from the faculty has reached out to other faculty suggesting that we should try to figure out a way to form a union. A union organizer, who never first contacted me about what is going on, shows up to intrude on my work while I am teaching, and gets me […]
Posted in Disingenuous, labor markets on Apr 9th, 2016
In response to the initial exchange, I followed up: And this is the first and last time I ever got any real answers to any real questions, and what a doozy, an unexpected one: So, does anyone better versed in labor law understand if these tactics are illegal? What we are talking about is […]
