{"id":8413,"date":"2011-06-13T13:24:24","date_gmt":"2011-06-13T21:24:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/?p=8413"},"modified":"2011-06-13T13:42:47","modified_gmt":"2011-06-13T21:42:47","slug":"some-union-members-are-more-equal-than-others","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/2011\/06\/some-union-members-are-more-equal-than-others\/","title":{"rendered":"Some Union Members Are More Equal Than Others"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Commentary<\/p>\n<p>The Chronicle: <a href=\"http:\/\/chronicle.com\/article\/Some-Union-Members-Are-More\/127886\/?sid=at&#038;utm_source=at&#038;utm_medium=en\">Some Union Members Are More Equal Than Others<\/a><\/p>\n<p>By Keith Hoeller and Jack Longmate<\/p>\n<p>Do tenure-track and adjunct faculty belong in the same union? A 1980 U.S. Supreme Court decision ruled that tenure-track faculty are &#8220;managerial employees&#8221; and not entitled to unions in the private sector. But in public-sector unions, tenured professors are often combined with contingent faculty, who are certainly not &#8220;managerial.&#8221; Tenure-stream faculty supervise the adjuncts, determining workload, interviewing, hiring, evaluating, and deciding whether to rehire them. Gregory Saltzman observed in the National Education Association&#8217;s &#8220;2000 Almanac of Higher Education&#8221; that combined units may not be ideal because of the &#8220;conflicts of interests between these two groups.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In fact, the unequal treatment of professors by their unions has come to resemble the plot of George Orwell&#8217;s dystopian novel Animal Farm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Commentary The Chronicle: Some Union Members Are More Equal Than Others By Keith Hoeller and Jack Longmate Do tenure-track and adjunct faculty belong in the same union? A 1980 U.S. Supreme Court decision ruled that tenure-track faculty are &#8220;managerial employees&#8221; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/2011\/06\/some-union-members-are-more-equal-than-others\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2275],"tags":[2421,3674,1288918,1288944,3547,137793,1288963,408,273691,205249],"class_list":["post-8413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-unions","tag-adjuncts","tag-aft","tag-commentary","tag-contingent-labor","tag-nea","tag-tenure-stream-faculty","tag-unions","tag-vancouver","tag-vancouver-community-college","tag-washington"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8413"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8413\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8415,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8413\/revisions\/8415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}