What makes you think you're special? The entire working world is chock full of underlings doing "all the work" while the boss sits around attending zoom meetings all day.
OT: Rutgers faculty union calls strike
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I agree with you. All the adjuncts and TAs should quit immediately and that will have a better impact on driving salaries higher for adjuncts and TAs. Adjuncts and TAs only get paid $10 an hour. I saw a sign that said Chick Fil A is paying $17 an hour and that’s with benefits and free food.
My lecture was canceled. 🤷♂️ Probably a case-by-case basis. I have no problem being a scab.
you want a living wage then you work full time and go to school part time
zero fks given for GA/TA as that's what you sign up for. They are well compensated
those who don't mind like you claim , better not mind ( if working) their job being given to someone else because of willingness to work for less and/or be treated unfairly .
Management looks after those in management , but sometimes shafts those lower on the management totem pole that have no voice ,besides their own, to speak for them when unfairly treated
Union's represent workers and speak out for each individual worker, using every union employee's voice, to fight any unjust practice management implements and/or poor working conditions be it lower than fair wages or the treatment management gives to their employees.
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We live in a cosplay world. We as a society have soooo little adversity that we need to create it.
People wanna pretend theyre civil rights leaders and world changers. Theyre all cosplay actors. Look at how those expelled politicians in nashville acted. They pretended they were MLK himself. Fists in the air, changing up voice tonality, changing attire. It was pathetic.
These faculty members now want their spotlight moment. They wanna pretend theyre someone.
They are not working part-time. Many of the adjuncts string together several of these part-time positions to get full-time work. They drive from one end of the state to the other teaching courses at several NJ Universities and Colleges in order to try to make a living wage.
You should have stopped right there.
And don't give a flying f*** about the student's one month away from graduation with the possibility of needing the diploma to start a job they have already taken. My reaction would be much more muted if this was happening at the beginning of the summer or fall semesters.
I have no problem with a dog eat dog world. Show up to work, put in the effort, be pleasant and professional, and you will succeed whatever level you are at.
Disagree that management only looks after those in management. Have seen managers take out or take down useless or ineffective managers because morale was suffering.
The problem with some unions is they speak to masses and not indviduals. Often they foment a race to the bottom in productivity and performance. Not always, but often.
Sure, he has other things, like multiple handles on this website
I have no idea why they do it. They might have grandiose ideas that they will be eventually hired as full-time professors but that will NEVER HAPPEN. The educational model has changed. When a full-time professor leaves or retires the University/College just hires more adjuncts. There are way more adjuncts than professors teaching courses. Another thing is that many adjuncts are older individuals that have already retired from their professions, and are now teaching one course to get out of the house and to just keep active. No one in the United States understands what is happening. I think all the adjuncts and TAs should quit immediately. This will be much more effective than a strike. If all the adjuncts and TAs quit their jobs and refuse to work for $10 an hour, it will shut the university down or it will force the full-time professors to teach more courses on campus.
The best is a sizeable number of them (very few have a degree from RU or anywhere else) have parents that were in unions at RU.
The union is the only reason they got in- and then got free tuition- but now that someone else may benefit, they're melting down.
Like the majority of people have come to learn, every accusation they have is a confession.
While I agree with you in principle - your argument falls flat on its face when put into practice.
1. While I fully disagree with the practice, this has been going on for years in various industries (offshoring) and is unlikely to ever stop in pursuit of the mighty dollar.
2. If only the Professors Unions were actually looking out for "each individual worker" instead of looking out for their own best interests (I get at some base level this is the purpose of any union, advocate for its membership, but there are larger issues at play) - my Father worked for 25+ years, till the day he died, as "management" at the Rutgers Golf Course, with a final salary of about $48k/year. There was a 4 year stretch in the late 00's or early 10's (forget exactly) that he didn't even receive a "cost of living" raise, let alone an actual raise. I'm sure there are plenty of folks that work for Dining Services, Facilities, etc. with grievances as well - lets see the Professors stick up for all of these other workers for once.
I have a feeling that this is another episode of the Rutgers classic known as "cut off your nose to spite your face".
Ceramic engineering always sounded like a super pottery class! :)
But big congrats on landing the future wife. My RU wife came at the tail end of my RU MBA program.
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no, you'd find another reason to be pissed about.
What they are doing is legal and part of forcing the University to listen to what they want and not keep the talks going without an agreement until the unions bargining power is muted because of the end of school year.
Could be worse, I hear there's some snowflakes boycotting Bud Light and shooting beer cans.
Hard to imagine anyone could be such a snowflake and cancel culture lover!
Sure bro, they totally won't graduate and will have job offers rescinded!
Somehow schools managed through a global pandemic, repeat mass shootings, insane weather, but professors walking out for 2-3 days will alter the course of their careers.
You guys really need better hills, these aren't working.
lol
unions represent their own self interests and there is ample evidence of that
lol at unions represent their members
I was given a job at the RAC to check ID's but my shift was always during basketball practice so no one was allowed in anyway. Basically I had to just head over there, sign the sheet to say I worked and head home. Even that was sometimes too much effort considering I was on Cook.
Does any union care about people who receive their services? A job of a Union is to protect the employees.
Sure it's legal. But in Webster's under RU Screw this will be used as the definition.
Just wondering aloud....if all TAs and GAs really did quit. I mean 100% of them, as was suggested above, I stead of striking...would those same people rail against them for quitting their posts and leaving RU high and dry?
and if they didn't strike until the academic year was over, they would be getting the RU Screw
No. The professors would rail against the TAs/GAs for forcing them to do some actual work.
You said tail end. Huh, huh, huh.
The beauty of ceramic (now called materials) engineering is that it spanned aspects of chemical engineering, metallurgy, glass science, physics, mechanical and electrical engineering. Over my engineering and patent career, I have worked in optical fiber manufacturing and research, pharmaceuticals, medical devices, semiconductor physics, semiconductor manufacturing and a lot of other areas. And yes, ceramic engineers do work in the traditional areas of manufacturing chinaware (e.g. Lennox and Corning Ware, sanitary ware (American Standard, Kohler) and tile (lots of companies). Versatile degree with lots of hot stuff.
NotinRHouse Snowflake: Bud Light Libs shot their load on their snowflake marketing stupidity.
Did this sound coherent in your head?
Businesses do not vote and do not shut down operations until they get what they want. I know you will come back with their threatening to leave the State unless they get a tax credit or something else, but they literally have to leave. The unions are not leaving, and Rutgers, or government for that matter, cannot pick up and move somewhere else where costs are lower or not unionized. While a business has the downside of the expense of moving out of state, the unions have little downside to striking. The negotiating side is too one sided in favor of a union in a situation like this.
The grumpy old man group is out in FORCE today! Way to go, guys! You show those whippersnappers what's wrong in America today!
And yet here is the union for part time lecturers listing fixing unfair gentrification in New Brunswick as one of their demands. Now you know why the University negotiated dollars & cents and laughed at the rest.
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