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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 […]
Posted in Disingenuous, labor markets on Apr 9th, 2016
As some of you by now aware, the SEIU is trying to organize non-tenure track faculty at the U of R, where I work. I am a non-tenure track faculty member and am very pleased with my situation. On a pleasant spring day, a random dude stalked me in my classrooms … twice … to […]
Posted in Disingenuous, Economic Illiteracy, Government Thuggery, labor markets, Voluntary Society on Apr 6th, 2016
So, the SEIU showed up on campus a few weeks ago and they are trying to organize … ME. Here are some U of R kids showing support: For the record: The SEIU will not answer my questions about who they are trying to organize and how they obtained information about those faculty. Of course, […]
