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CUPE 2278 TAs Approve and Mobilize for Strike at UBC

Posted on October 25, 2012 by | Comments Off on CUPE 2278 TAs Approve and Mobilize for Strike at UBC

The count is in and the Graduate Teaching Assistants in CUPE 2278 at the University of British Columbia, readily and predictably approved an escalation of job action to strike. The Union Executive advised:

Dear [CUPE 2278] members,

We conducted the vote yesterday, and the results: 76% were in favour of
taking job action.

Therefore, we will be booking out of the Labour Relation Board mediation, and we will serve the employer with a 72 hour job action notice when ‘booking out’ is confirmed.

Continue your normal duties until further notice.

Please stand by for more information, and keep checking the website,
facebook and twitter for updates.

In the meantime, the Faculty Association of UBC , which gave up its right to strike moons ago, advised its faculty members that it was preparing for a round of binding arbitration with the University.

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CUPE 2278 TA’s Mobilize for Strike at UBC

Posted on October 19, 2012 by | Comments Off on CUPE 2278 TA’s Mobilize for Strike at UBC

Teaching Assistants at the University of British Columbia, represented by CUPE 2278, will take a strike vote on Wednesday, 24 October. The University narrowly averted a TA strike in mid April (80% of the TAs in favour) through legal means of mediation.  Mediation predictably failed  and merely deferred job action.  Seven months later the union is once again mobilizing for a strike.  The University has fallen back on a comfortable  excuse that the graduate teaching assistants are net zero workers, and accordingly has offered 0%, 0%, 1.5%, 1.5% in increases to TA wages for the years 2010-2014.  As with CUPE 116, the university’s and government’s sentiment has been: ‘Let them negotiate, let them bargain,’ as long as they remain net zero workers.  For the TA’s facing tuition hikes and carrying increasing burdens of responsibility for the University, the 0%, 0%, 1.5%, 1.5% is blatantly unfair.  This is ever more the conclusion given that the University has been merely rolling over contracts for the TA union since 2005.

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SFU Behind Picket Lines

Posted on October 19, 2012 by | Comments Off on SFU Behind Picket Lines

CUPE 3338 set up pickets lines this morning, effectively shutting down Simon Fraser University’s (SFU) downtown Vancouver campus.  Stepping up job action, this union of SFU support workers has for months been immensely frustrated with the University’s refusal to negotiate.  The union “reports virtually no progress in more than two years of talks.”  “With inflation, our members are actually falling behind in real terms,” says 3338 business agent John Bannister, “unlike top SFU administers who have been enjoying substantial annual increases while refusing to negotiate with us.”  “SFU has arbitrarily decided it will not sit down and bargain in good faith with us,” says CUPE 3338 president Lynne Fowler. “It has chosen instead to focus on its broken pension plan and deny its CUPE employees the right to negotiate a new collective agreement,” she adds.

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Earlier this month, CUPE 3799 support workers picketed the University of Northern British Columbia’s (UNBC) campus while CUPE 116 escalated job action at the University of British Columbia (UBC). Following failed mediation, CUPE 2278 teaching assistants will take a strike vote next week to likely escalate CUPE job action at UBC.  Undergraduate students at UBC are calling for solidarity with the unions.

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Workplace #1 Inaugural Issue Republished!

Posted on October 16, 2012 by | Comments Off on Workplace #1 Inaugural Issue Republished!

The Institute for Critical Education Studies (ICES) has embarked on the daunting, yet enjoyable, task of reissuing all back issues of Workplace: A Journal for Academic Labor in OJS format.  We begin with the inaugural issue and its core theme, “Organizing Our Asses Off.”  Issue #2 will soon follow.  We encourage readers and supporters of Workplace and Critical Education to revisit these now classic back issues for a sense of accomplishment and frustration over the past 15 years of academic labor.  Please keep the ideas and manuscripts rolling in!

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A New Union Battle As Chicago Teachers, Mayor Clash

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NPR: A New Union Battle As Chicago Teachers, Mayor Clash

There hasn’t been a school strike in Chicago for 25 years. But the current contract between Chicago teachers and the Chicago Public Schools expires at the end of next week, and tensions between the teachers union, the school district and Mayor Rahm Emanuel are ratcheting higher.

Chicago Teachers Union members outmaneuvered the mayor, school officials and anti-union education groups by overwhelmingly approving a measure that allows teachers to strike if contract negotiations fall flat.

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Duquesne appeals NLRB decision on union

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Tribune-Review: Duquesne appeals NLRB decision on union

Board decision to reject the university’s request that it be allowed to withdraw on religious grounds from an agreement allowing part-time faculty to form a union, officials announced today.

The United Steelworkers petitioned the labor board on May 14 to supervise a union election to represent about 130 part-time faculty.

The NLRB issued a ruling Monday after Duquesne sought to withdraw from the vote because, as a religious institution, it qualifies for an exemption from NLRB jurisdiction, said Bridget Fare, a university spokeswoman.

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AAUP Proposes Giving Contingent Faculty a Much Bigger Role in College Governance

Posted on June 28, 2012 by | Comments Off on AAUP Proposes Giving Contingent Faculty a Much Bigger Role in College Governance

The Chronicle: AAUP Proposes Giving Contingent Faculty a Much Bigger Role in College Governance

The American Association of University Professors is poised to urge colleges to give much more say in their governance to contingent faculty members, including many part-time adjuncts, librarians, and graduate students who are paid to teach or conduct research.

In a draft report being released today, the association argues that colleges are ill-served by policies that exclude most instructors who are off the tenure track from governance activities, and offers a list of recommendations for giving contingent faculty members much more say in the affairs of the institutions that employ them.

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Faculty Unions Mobilize to Regain Lost Ground in Elections

Posted on May 30, 2012 by | Comments Off on Faculty Unions Mobilize to Regain Lost Ground in Elections

The Chronicle: Faculty Unions Mobilize to Regain Lost Ground in Elections

Labor unions that represent college instructors are gearing up for several major battles at the polls in the coming months, out of a conviction that they must flex more muscle politically if they are to prevent further assaults on their members’ pocketbooks and bargaining power.

Although labor-related issues have long been key points of contention in state and national elections, labor activists in academe are especially geared up for the current election cycle in response to the attacks that fiscally conservative Republican lawmakers mounted against them after the elections of 2010.

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Labor-Relations Board Seeks Input on Faculty Unions at Private Colleges

Posted on May 29, 2012 by | Comments Off on Labor-Relations Board Seeks Input on Faculty Unions at Private Colleges

Labor-Relations Board Seeks Input on Faculty Unions at Private Colleges

The National Labor Relations Board is soliciting legal briefs on the question of whether or not faculty members at private colleges should be considered managers, a distinction that determines whether they are eligible for union representation.

Since a 1980 ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court, National Labor Relations Board v. Yeshiva University, professors at private colleges have been typically classified as managers and, therefore, largely barred from forming unions. In asking for the briefs in its announcement this week, the NLRB said it was seeking help in responding to a case involving Point Park University, a private institution in Pittsburgh where faculty members petitioned for a union election and voted, in 2003, to be represented by a local chapter of the Communications Workers of America.

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COCAL Updates

Posted on May 5, 2012 by | Comments Off on COCAL Updates

COCAL updates in brief and links from Joe Berry:

1. Faculty at U of OR get agreement on mixed bargaining unit recognition (it includes ALL contingents) joint AFT/AAUP affiliate
http://www.aaup.org/AAUP/newsroom/2012PRs/UOAgree.htm

2. Yet another article supports what most of us in the union movement have long said, as wealth goes up, empathy declines [or “the rich are different from you and me, they have more money…” and less empathy for others.]
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=how-wealth-reduces-compassion

3. Ad for adjunct job specifies that the person not be teaching anywhere else and reactions.
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2012/04/25/usc-job-ad-rankles-adjuncts
and http://www.nationalreview.com/phi-beta-cons/296957/adjuncts-alarmed-over-usc-job-posting-nathan-harden
and http://www.insidehighered.com/blogs/confessions-community-college-dean/mandatory-monogamy-adjuncts

4. More on union recognition at U of OR
http://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2012/04/25/faculty-union-advances-u-oregon

5. Very interesting contrast in US press coverage between French and US elections. Are there lessons here for how the press frames our issues in higher ed? (such as making the extreme privatization and casualization trends of US seem normal here, but covering them differently, if at all, overseas.) The question, of course, is how to change or challenge this press frame.
http://www.beyondchron.org/news/index.php?itemid=10095

6. Student veterans group revokes charters of locals at over 20 for-profit colleges
http://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2012/04/26/veterans-group-lists-profits-where-it-revoked-charters

7. Capella U (a for profit) to offer college credit (classes) online to higher school students for a fee. [Is there anything not for sale if one has enough money? Didn’t Marx say something about “All that is solid melts into the air?”]
http://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2012/04/26/capella-posts-25000-free-tutorials-through-sophia

8. The for-profits’ war on philanthropy
http://www.insidehighered.com/views/2012/04/26/essay-profit-colleges-undermine-traditional-role-philanthropy
http://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2012/04/26/capella-posts-25000-free-tutorials-through-sophia

9. Ten Ways for a non-tenure track faculty to get fired [some of these are good, some obvious and some just plain wrong IMHO, especially the one about not trusting (some) “help” (clerical staff). They can be our best allies, individually and collectively.]
http://chronicle.com/article/10-Ways-to-Get-Yourself-Fired/131630/

10. New memo reveals union suppression at Kaplan U in NYC
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/04/19/1084585/-BREAKING-Kaplan-University-Suppressing-Union-Organizing-In-NYC

11. Blog from union organizer at East-West U in Chicago
http://academeblog.org/2012/03/21/shooting-itself-in-the-foot-east-west-universitys-anti-union-campaign/

12. More on new play about for-profits
http://www.campusprogress.com/articles/theatre_of_the_absurd_former_for-profit_college_advisor_takes_his_stor/

13. Update on massive Quebec student strike agains huge tuition increases
http://www.marxist.com/quebec-revolt-analysis-april-2012.htm

14. Kaplan and other for-profits were part of ALEC and their ED task force
http://truth-out.org/news/item/8766-washington-posts-kaplan-and-other-for-profit-colleges-joined-alec

15. AAUP summer institute http://www.aaup.org/AAUP/about/events/si2012.htm

16. More on Gren River CC (WA) adjunct apartheid event and disposable teachers
http://dissidentvoice.org/2012/04/disposable-teachers/

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UBC Temporarily Dodges TA Strike

Posted on April 12, 2012 by | 1 comment

The University of British Columbia’s application to the BC Labour Relations Board for a mediator in the stand-off with the graduate students’ union CUPE 2278 was granted.  LRB Mediator Mark Atkinson will convene CUPE 2278 and the University to the bargaining table in early May.  Atkinson was a staff representative with the Hospital Employees’ Union from 1981 to 1995, and has served as Mediator in the LRB from 1995-2004, and 2008-present. In the meantime, CUPE 2278’s strike position will remain  but the union cannot strike during this interim period leading to mediation. And in the meantime, the University will fall back on an excuse that the graduate teaching assistants are net zero workers, underserving of an increase in their pay cheques.  Again, here we are like the case of the BC Teachers’ Federation and the government’s sentiment: ‘Let them negotiate, let them bargain,’ as long as they remain net zero workers.

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UBC TA / CUPE 2278 President Appeals for Solidarity

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CUPE 2278 President Geraldina Polanco appealed for solidarity and unity amidst recent ploys by a University of British Columbia faculty member and subsequently the University to splinter the graduate students union’s strike position.  Polanco wrote to members: “Our employer reads our communications to you — for example, they have told us at the bargaining table that they regularly visit our Facebook page and read our newsletters. This makes engaging in transparent discussions with our members regarding bargaining a difficult task for the Union Executive. Our members are sprawled across workspaces on the UBC campus and beyond, which reduces most communication to electronic routes that, by their nature, are accessible to the employer…. we are limited in our ability to communicate information with you via virtual routes because we do not want to facilitate the transfer of information to our employer.”

Responding to attempts to splinter or divide the union, the CUPE 2278 President now has to remind members and supporters: “Going forward with bargaining it is useful to keep in mind that the employer benefits from a non-unified membership. Our mutual trust in each other is paramount, and we hope our minimal communication with you has not been misread. Our lack of formal correspondence is not because we do not seek to be transparent but rather because we are limited in what we can say.”

Last week, FT faculty member Dr. David Klonksy published “Dear CUPE 2278,” a diatribe to undermine confidence in the graduate students’ leadership.  At these times a few anti-union or anti-labour activists are readily played by management.  Good try, bad motive, Dr. Klonksy.  The letter is seriously uninformed in stating that CUPE 2278 “Union leadership has made no effort to reach out to faculty.”  Let’s be clear, CUPE 2278 has reached out– the communication from the union leadership has been outstanding– a model of leadership and transparency. If a strike materializes from the overwhelming support, faculty members will stand on the picket line in support of and sympathy with the students.

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BCTF Finds Bias in BC Government Inside Appointment of Mediator

Posted on April 5, 2012 by | Comments Off on BCTF Finds Bias in BC Government Inside Appointment of Mediator

The BC Teachers’ Federation filed an application to the Labour Relations Board to quash the 28 appointment of Dr. Charles Jago as mediator in the current labour dispute.  “On April 2, BCTF President Susan Lambert wrote to Dr. Jago respectfully requesting that he step down as mediator, citing numerous factors that create an apprehension of bias. One day later, Dr. Jago wrote back, saying he declined to withdraw.”  Lambert argued that “this government has legislated a biased process and appointed a mediator who not only lacks experience, but evidently lacks impartiality as well.”  The BCTF is seriously concerned with insider connections to the BC Liberal Party.  In 2006, Jago was on commission to former Premier Gordon Campbell’s Progress Board.  The BCTF reports that Jago’s “findings clearly foreshadow positions taken by the BC Public School Employers’ Association at the bargaining table and also reflect policy directions laid out in Bill 22.” Lambert continued, saying “bbviously there is a strong linkage between Dr. Jago’s thinking, and the bargaining and policy objectives of this government.”  Jago also admitted to the BCTF that he was “given the opportunity to review and ‘to wordsmith’ a draft of” the draconian Bill 22 before it was tabled in the Legislature. “This was the very legislation he would later be expected to interpret impartially as a mediator.”   Jago was appointed on 28 March, shortly after the anti-labour legislation was passed.

Read More: BCTF News Release

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UBC Braces for TA Strike

Posted on April 3, 2012 by | Comments Off on UBC Braces for TA Strike

Signs are pointing to a full strike by Graduate Teaching Assistants (GTAs) at the University of British Columbia within a week.  The GTAs’ bargaining unit, CUPE 2278, put its members on alert and is taking measures to train picket captains for successful job action.  In the meantime, the University is calling the escalation “perplexing,” despite its longstanding wage freeze / cut for the students under rising costs to their graduate programs, exploitive working conditions, and rolled over contracts.

Routinely, the University has placed the Vice Provost and AVP Academic Affairs, this time Anna Kindler, in charge of the notorious Ad Hoc Senate Strike Preparedness Committee. Following the CUPE 2278 strike in 2003, UBC’s Senate rushed through a series of changes to the University’s Strike Policy and Guidelines and the charge of the Strike Preparedness Committee is to enforce the new policy guide.  In 2003, many faculty and students felt intimidated by the University in its use of the policy guide in a “captive audience” workplace setting to maintain business as usual against union job action, including the full 2278 strike.

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Study Finds Continued Growth of Unions for Faculty Members and Graduate Students

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The Chronicle: Study Finds Continued Growth of Unions for Faculty Members and Graduate Students

The number of college faculty members and graduate-student employees represented by unions has risen substantially over the past five years. But such growth might be slowing as a result of moves by state legislatures to curtail collective-bargaining rights, among other recent developments, according to a report published by the National Center for the Study of Collective Bargaining in Higher Education and the Professions.

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UBC TAs Mobilizing Strike Capacities

Posted on March 30, 2012 by | 1 comment

Voting overwhelmingly on 22 March to move into a strike position, Graduate Teaching Assistants at the University of British Columbia are now mobilizing for a strike that may begin next week.  Frustrated by the University’s unwillingness to give on key components in contract negotiations, the GTA’s bargaining unit, CUPE 2278, is taking steps toward labour action. The government and University have designated the TAs net zero workers.  In many ways, the University ought to feel indebted to the GTAs, yet exploitative conditions prevail. CUPE 2278 has asked if it is “okay to let an employer profit off your work at a comparatively lower cost and then balance its budget out of your pocket by passing on its expenses?”

Let’s face it– the TAs, like all workers in BC, deserve much, much better than the net zero worker designation.  And rolling over contracts that date all the way back to 2005 is not good enough.  The UBC Faculty Association is also bargaining with the University at this time, with faculty members similarly designated as net zero workers.  Yet unlike CUPE 2278, the faculty members have a no strike clause in their history with the University. If the 2003 CUPE 2278 strike is an indication, a vast majority of faculty members will nonetheless be on the picket lines behind and beside the students.

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Duquesne Adjuncts Seek to Form Union Affiliated With Steelworkers

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The Chronicle: Duquesne Adjuncts Seek to Form Union Affiliated With Steelworkers

Adjunct faculty members at Duquesne University are seeking to form a union affiliated with the United Steelworkers, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reports. The steelworkers’ union said non-tenure-track faculty at the Roman Catholic college had formed a group called Adjuncts Association of the United Steelworkers and hoped to organize a collective-bargaining unit to push for more job security and better pay and working conditions. The steelworkers’ union is considering trying to organize adjuncts at several other colleges in the Pittsburgh area, Maria Somma, its assistant director of organizing, told the newspaper. Richard J. Boris, executive director of the National Center for the Study of Collective Bargaining in Higher Education and the Professions, said on Thursday that he was unaware of any existing faculty union around the country with a United Steelworkers affiliation.

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“Mission Impossible” Mediator for BC Labour Dispute

Posted on March 28, 2012 by | Comments Off on “Mission Impossible” Mediator for BC Labour Dispute

Setting a stage certain for failure, ex-UNBC President Charles Jago, appointed as mediator in the labour dispute between the BC Teachers’ Federation and Government, described the assignment as “mission impossible.”  Jago is off to a rough start, with less than 12 hours in, with this off-handed remark, doudts about his expertise, and concerns about his political and financial support of the BC Liberal party.

BCTF President Susan Lambert commented that she “had not heard of Jago before the announcement” this morning and “also noted he does not appear to have any experience as a mediator.”  “I’m sure he is very accomplished person,” Lambert said, “but I am concerned about his ability to mediate this dispute and his ability to understand the issues that separate both parties.”

The BCTF bargaining team will meet with Jago, but Lambert “expressed concern about the perception of bias because of his donations to the B.C. Liberal Party.” “Of course that would concern me,” said Lambert after hearing about the donations.

Read more, CBC News

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Court rejects UIC union

Posted on March 26, 2012 by | Comments Off on Court rejects UIC union

Inside Higher Ed: Court Rejects Faculty Union

Almost a year ago, faculty members at the University of Illinois at Chicago filed papers to unionize. The drive at the university was seen as a major victory for academic labor, which has struggled in recent years to organize at research universities. And at a time when the treatment of those off the tenure track is an increasingly important issue to faculty leaders, the new union was to have combined tenure-track and adjunct faculty members. Since then, the union has been engaged in a legal fight with the university, which has argued that Illinois law does not allow joint units for tenure-track and non-tenure track faculty members. Along the way, the union won most of the skirmishes, but that ended on Thursday.

Read more: http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2012/03/23/appeals-court-rejects-faculty-union-u-illinois-chicago#ixzz1qFOD1Hhh
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BC Teachers Adopt Bold Plan to Resist Unjust Legislation

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BCTF AGM delegates break for information briefing (3-19-2012)

In addition to acknowledging and endorsing the immensely reliable and visionary leadership of BC Teachers’ Federation President Susan Lambert by re-electing her to a third term, BC teachers adopted a bold plan to resist the “harsh and unjust measures contained in Bill 22.”  About 700 delegates sustained an AGM over the weekend and through yesterday to see through the union’s Executive elections and formulate a response for the teachers to the draconian measures imposed by the BC Liberals.

“Christy Clark as education minister started this fight 10 years ago with her legislation that stripped teachers’ collective agreements of our bargaining rights and of guarantees for quality learning conditions for students,” said BCTF President Susan Lambert. “The BC Supreme Court found her bills to be illegal and unconstitutional, yet her government has done nothing to show respect for the ruling, for public education or for the teachers and students of BC. In fact they’re violating the rights of teachers and cutting the same services to students with Bill 22.”

“In April, all teachers will vote on the plan recommended by the AGM delegates. To be clear, the plan also includes a possibility of a future province-wide vote of members on whether it’s necessary to respond to government actions with a full-scale protest against Bill 22,” President Lambert emphasized. “At every step of the way, government has chosen bullying tactics instead of respectfully working with teachers towards a solution.”

Read More, BCTF News release

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