BY JOHN K. WILSON In a major victory for graduate student employees, Columbia University has agreed to a framework to recognize the Graduate Workers of Columbia-UAW (GWC-UAW) and the Columbia Postdoctoral Workers-UAW (CPW-UAW) and begin good-faith contract negotiations with the UAW. The Framework states that an agreement “must not infringe upon the integrity of Columbia’s…
POSTED BY MARTIN KICH Travis Doom is the President of the Faculty Senate at Wright State University 2018-10-19 BoT–Travis Doom’s Faculy Senate Report [PDF] Please sign and share a petition of support for our chapter’s efforts to get a fair contract: https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/stand-with-wright-statefaculty. The Faculty Senate is relatively inactive in the summer. Most Faculty are on…
POSTED BY MARTIN KICH Sirisha Naidu is the Grievance Officer for the Wright State chapter and has been oordinating our outreach to other labor unions, political figures, and allied community groups as part of our contract campaign and strike preparation. 2018-10-19 BoT–Sirisha Naidu’s Remarks [PDF] Video Link: https://youtu.be/TPbTr_JIOEU. Good Morning, I am Sirisha Naidu, Faculty in…
POSTED BY MARTIN KICH Noeleen McIlvenna is the Contract Administration Officer for the Wright State chapter and also the Coordinator of our contract campaign and strike preparation. 2018-10-19 BoT–Noeleen McIlvenna’s Remarks [PDF] Video Link: https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=Crn7SUboOME. Trustees, President Schrader, We have gathered today to reason with you to do what’s right for Wright State. Which is—to…
POSTED BY MARTIN KICH The truism that our colleges and universities need to be managed as businesses has lost whatever credibility it once might have had–largely because it has become very clear that academics are the only part of our institutions to which the truism is actually applied. It is not applied to the ballooning…
POSTED BY MARTIN KICH Please sign a petition of support for our chapter’s efforts to get a fair contract: https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/stand-with-wright-state-faculty. In voting that ended at 5 pm on Noember 7, members of AAUP-WSU voted overwhelmingly to reject the Fact Finder’s report: 467 voted to reject, 12 to accept. Over 97% of the voters rejected the…
POSTED BY MARTIN KICH The short answer is to tie tenure to measures of administrative incompetence. But before I elaborate on that linkage, let me acknowledge that I am taking a second shot at pitching our chapter’s petition of support to the readers of this blog. The petition was designed for a more generic audience…
POSTED BY MARTIN KICH Wright State faculty and students need your support. Right now, the stakes at Wright State have never been higher— over the past several years, our students, the local workforce, and the region’s economy have been harmed by the administration’s poor stewardship. And now that this administration has exhausted the financial resources…
POSTED BY MARTIN KICH Because the Guy Who Has Lived Most of His Adult Life in a Gilded Penthouse Knows More and Cares More about Workers This is from the Far-Right news outlet Newsmax: President Donald Trump slammed AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka early Labor Day morning, accusing him of speaking against working people and the…
POSTED BY MARTIN KICH Randi Weingarten’s message reinforces many of the points that Rudy Fichtenbaum made in his president’s address at the AAUP’s annual meeting in mid-June: A growing and enduring middle class, great public schools, a living wage, affordable healthcare and college, a decent retirement, a voice at work and in our democracy, communities…