LIU Lockout

BY GWENDOLYN BRADLEY The AAUP has issued a statement on the Long Island University administration’s lockout of all four hundred members of its Brooklyn campus faculty union. The statement reads, in its entirety: September 6, 2016 Statement on LIU Brooklyn Lockout Over the Labor Day weekend, the administration of Long Island University (LIU) announced an unprecedented…

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The Self-Declared “Voice of the Working Man” on the Workers’ Holiday

BY MARTIN KICH This is how the official Trump campaign site marked Labor Day:   Trump did, however, tweet about his meeting with union leaders at an American Legion Post in Youngstown–after he bragged about some very selectively highlighted poll numbers: Donald J. Trump ‏@realDonaldTrump  Heading to Youngstown, Ohio now-some great polls. #AmericaFirst   Donald J.…

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Lockout Lessons

BY HANK REICHMAN The horrific Labor Day lockout at Long Island University’s Brooklyn campus has emerged, for the moment, as a front-line battleground in the fight for the future of higher education.  If you haven’t yet joined the letters campaign in support of the LIU faculty initiated by the American Federation of Teachers, please do…

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“Right to Work,” by the Numbers: Part 15

POSTED BY MARTIN KICH Job Growth and Good-Paying Job Growth in U.S. Urban Areas   The “right-to-work” states are indicated in red, and the pro-labor states in white:   If you compare that map with the following map, showing the raw job growth in U.S. urban areas, you’ll see that the greatest raw job growth…

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LOCKED OUT ON LABOR DAY: FACULTY AT LIU BROOKLYN FIGHTING FOR A FAIR CONTRACT AND THE FUTURE OF OUR CAMPUS

BY DEBORAH MUTNICK Guest blogger Deborah Mutnick is  a long-time professor at Long Island University’s Brooklyn, NY campus. As of 12:00 a.m., Saturday, September 3, my colleagues and I were locked out of our University in the midst of contract negotiations between our faculty union and management. The letter I got from the administration told…

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LIU Lockout Scheduled for Midnight

BY AARON BARLOW There’s a short piece on Inside Higher Ed today that says the Long Island University at Brooklyn administration will lock out faculty members starting at midnight “unless the faculty union immediately ratifies a contract and that it has lined up new faculty members to teach.” This is all sorts of crazy. One…

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Corporate Universities Are Shocked To Learn They Have Graduate Student Employees

BY MICHAEL MERANZE The following is reposted with the author’s permission from the Remaking the University blog.  Michael Meranze is Professor of History at UCLA.  As you may know, a 3-1 majority of the National Labor Relations Board ruled that Columbia University’s Teaching Assistants (known at Columbia as Instructional Officers) are to be considered “employees” under…

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