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Peter Wylie: My Faculty Association and Me: A Case Study in Sweetheart Unionism and Academic Mobbing

Posted on March 22, 2018 by | Comments Off on Peter Wylie: My Faculty Association and Me: A Case Study in Sweetheart Unionism and Academic Mobbing

My Faculty Association and Me: A Case Study in Sweetheart Unionism and Academic Mobbing

By Peter Wylie

This paper recounts recent experiences of mine with the University of British Columbia (UBC) Faculty Association (UBCFA). I am a tenured Associate Professor at UBC, Okanagan campus (UBCO) and I began my FA role as 1st Vice-Chair of the Okanagan Faculty Committee (OFC), an executive position on this standing committee of the FA, in July 2017. The paper is couched in terms of the relatively recent concept of academic mobbing, defined as “an insidious, non-violent and sophisticated kind of psychological bullying that predominantly takes place in college and university campuses.”1 It also employs the concept of “sweetheart unionism” defined as a deal between an employer and union officials that benefits both at the expense of employees; in this case, a deal between UBCO and UBCFA that benefits UBCO management and FA Executive Director and staff in Vancouver at the expense of UBCO faculty members.

My Faculty Association and Me A case Study in Sweetheart Unionism and Academic Mobbing.pdf

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How not to run a university (Prologue + Trilogy)

Posted on August 20, 2015 by | Comments Off on How not to run a university (Prologue + Trilogy)

Here are links to E. Wayne Ross’ commentaries on the ongoing leadership crisis at the University of British Columbia. All the commentaries have appeared on his blog and several have also appeared in the Vancouver Observer:

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Welcome back to the “respectful environment” of your academic workplace

Posted on September 4, 2013 by | Comments Off on Welcome back to the “respectful environment” of your academic workplace

All characters and actions in the story linked below are purely fictitious. Any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, or activities experienced in any supposed “respectful environment” of an academic workplace is purely coincidental.

From McSweeney’s:

“Everyone Did Such a Great Job in the Leadership Workshop Today Except Spencer”

By Tim Sniffen

 

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Workplace bullying: Family of Journal Editor Who Committed Suicide Sues U. of Virginia

Posted on July 31, 2012 by | Comments Off on Workplace bullying: Family of Journal Editor Who Committed Suicide Sues U. of Virginia

The Chronicle: Family of Journal Editor Who Committed Suicide Sues U. of Virginia

Two years after Kevin Morrissey, a former managing editor of the Virginia Quarterly Review, killed himself following complaints he made about workplace bullying by his boss, the former VQR editor Ted Genoways, Mr. Morrissey’s family has filed a $10-million wrongful-death lawsuit against the University of Virginia, which publishes the award-winning journal.

The suit also names as defendants several current and former university employees, including Mr. Genoways and John T. Casteen III, who is president emeritus and continues as a faculty member at the university.

The lawsuit, filed last Wednesday in Virginia circuit court on behalf of Mr. Morrissey’s siblings and his father by Douglas R. Morrissey, one of Mr. Morrissey’s brothers, says the university failed to adequately respond to numerous complaints Mr. Morrissey made about Mr. Genoways in the weeks before his death. Mr. Morrissey complained at least 25 times, the suit says, to the offices of the president, human resources, and employee relations, saying Mr. Genoways had banned him from the journal’s office for unspecified “unacceptable workplace behavior.”

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‘Mobbing’ Can Damage More Than Careers, Professors Are Told at Conference

Posted on June 12, 2009 by | Comments Off on ‘Mobbing’ Can Damage More Than Careers, Professors Are Told at Conference

The Chronicle News Blog: ‘Mobbing’ Can Damage More Than Careers, Professors Are Told at Conference

Washington — It probably wouldn’t be that hard for faculty members to imagine that academic mobbing — a form of bullying in which members of a department gang up to isolate or humiliate a colleague — could derail their careers. But a discussion of the phenomenon today at the American Association of University Professors’ international conference on globalization, shared governance, and academic freedom illustrated that the consequences can be much worse.

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Drama professor provocative, or an abusive bully?

Posted on June 9, 2009 by | Comments Off on Drama professor provocative, or an abusive bully?

Seattle Times: WWU drama professor provocative, or an abusive bully?

Over the years, Western Washington University professor Perry Mills has referred to an overweight student as a “400-pound canary who warbles nothingness”; slapped the nickname “Precious” on a male colleague he believed to be gay; and called a female colleague a “bimbo” and “slut” to her face.

Those remarks were just for starters, according to university records.

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