You’re teachers, not Teamsters

Los Angeles Times: You’re teachers, not Teamsters

A CSU faculty strike would be another step away from a shared sense of purpose.

By John H. Bunzel, JOHN H. BUNZEL, a past president of San Jose State University, is a political scientist and senior research fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution.
April 3, 2007

IF NEGOTIATIONS break down, the faculty on the 23 campuses of the California State University system could go on strike later this week. Any strike would be short-lived, primarily because a university is not a supermarket or an industrial factory; it is a unique and specialized institution, with its essential purposes the advancement and dissemination of knowledge. But the trend toward collective bargaining has transformed academia, whether as a positive development I remain to be convinced.

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