UW Strike
From a "Breaking News" banner at Madison.com:
"After judging the state’s latest contract offer not good enough, UW-Madison’s teaching and project assistants voted Monday to not hold classes today and Wednesday. The decision likely will leave hundreds of empty classrooms. Many faculty members have said they will respect the assistants’ strike by either canceling classes or holding them in alternate locations. Members of the Teaching Assistants’ Association are asking 1,200 of their 1,900 members to cancel their classes. Picket lines are planned around major university buildings starting at 7:30 a.m. today."
May the Lord have mercy on our souls.
Because I am one of the 700 members not in a bound department, I didn't have a vote, and haven't developed a firm opinion on what course of action I support. I do think, however, that all the blame here goes with the state, which stonewalled for months, thus giving rise to the pro-strike sentiment in the union in the first place.
UPDATE: I'm being told that most of the strike committee was against the strike, and leadership wanted to continue negotiating but call off the strike. The actual vote was close.
UPDATE: If the strike committee doesn't think there are enough people for an effective strike, and the negotiation committee wants to keep negotiating, and a key part of our strategy is unknown people who will suddenly appear following media attention, does that mean this is the TAA equivalent of the Iraq invasion?
"After judging the state’s latest contract offer not good enough, UW-Madison’s teaching and project assistants voted Monday to not hold classes today and Wednesday. The decision likely will leave hundreds of empty classrooms. Many faculty members have said they will respect the assistants’ strike by either canceling classes or holding them in alternate locations. Members of the Teaching Assistants’ Association are asking 1,200 of their 1,900 members to cancel their classes. Picket lines are planned around major university buildings starting at 7:30 a.m. today."
May the Lord have mercy on our souls.
Because I am one of the 700 members not in a bound department, I didn't have a vote, and haven't developed a firm opinion on what course of action I support. I do think, however, that all the blame here goes with the state, which stonewalled for months, thus giving rise to the pro-strike sentiment in the union in the first place.
UPDATE: I'm being told that most of the strike committee was against the strike, and leadership wanted to continue negotiating but call off the strike. The actual vote was close.
UPDATE: If the strike committee doesn't think there are enough people for an effective strike, and the negotiation committee wants to keep negotiating, and a key part of our strategy is unknown people who will suddenly appear following media attention, does that mean this is the TAA equivalent of the Iraq invasion?
posted by Brian Ulrich at
10:10 PM
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