Showing posts with label solidarity. Show all posts
Showing posts with label solidarity. Show all posts
12 November 2016

Beyond Pantsuit Solidarity

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This, my first explicitly political post, is directed very locally: to economically comfortable liberal white women, like me, living in Ch...
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01 June 2016

Putting the "Public" Back in "Public Employee"

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"This great university system is not in danger of shutting its doors, but..." the wheels are off the bus, the train is off the r...
01 May 2016

Faculty Union Success

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Well. After a nail-biter of a day, this evening, NTFC Local 6546 tentatively agreed to a full contract with the UIUC administration. Furt...
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29 April 2016

Also: Vuvuzelas (Can We Get Some by Monday?)

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Day 2 of NTFC Local 6546's second strike.   (Read about Day 1 with backstory here .) It's the fourth day we've set up and m...
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28 April 2016

Inside Illinois? A House Divided Against Itself

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Updating with my thumbs from the picket line: the Provost's CORRECT email is feser@illinois.edu. Day 1 of NTFC Local 6546's second...
27 April 2016

Reasons Why You Should Support Striking NTTs

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This evening members of NTFC Local 6546, the union representing non-tenure-track faculty at the U of Illinois, voted overwhelmingly in fav...
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Let's Review: Faculty Working Conditions are Student Learning Conditions, Unless You're Downstate

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Current state of play at the University of Illinois mediation with NTFC Local 6546 (NTT faculty), according to an email to the union members...

Want a Fair Contract? STFU

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It's an interesting bargaining strategy. First, Int. Provost Feser explained that we can gain shared governance through shared governanc...

Who's Sharing the Governance of What, Exactly?

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From the transcript of of Interim Provost Feser's remarks in this morning's bargaining session: "there are a lot of things i ...

How Is this Mediation Session Different from All Other Mediation Sessions?

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This blog post is certainly different from all other blog posts. I'm typing it with my thumbs on my cell phone, using a colleague's ...
23 April 2016

Today's Koan: "More than Half a Day or Less"

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A half-hour after the two-day NTFC Local 6546 strike ended at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign on April 20, all members o...

The Kids Are Alright

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During two days of marching around the English Building at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and making a lot of noise, one...
19 April 2016

I Do Not Think the Word "Discussion" Means What You...Are We Seriously Here Again?

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Two MassMails from the Interim Chancellor in one day.   The second came while I was walking the picket line, so I didn't get to read it...

NTTs on Strike (Links from 4/19)

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We just finished day 1 of a two-day strike.  Here's what it looked like. The building we were picketing, emptied by our labor action...