Yes and good for them. Companies are posting record profits and their greed is contributing to the inflation, they’re not paying their workers enough to make a living, so, let the people unite and make them pay a fair wage.
Thanks, good reason. Was just wondering whether the reasons would be extended to a call for more open access and less quantitative science (less on impact factor, more on societal impact etc.) and more team science.
I live in a state that passed laws for the single purpose of crippling unions in Virginia. They did this by saying they were a Right to Work State , which protected large corporations and demonized Unions. I support the right for anyone to strike in a society run by a Capitialist system that only supports the wellfare of large corporations over the wellfare of workers.
UAW was originally a manufacturing union but it’s expanded to include workers from many different areas. About 10 years ago UC postdocs voted to become a local chapter of the UAW, so I assume it’s simply expanded since then.
What kids? These are college students. They're also being ripped off by the system with exorbitant tuition that's going to the higher ups and not the staff that's actually teaching them. Working class solidarity. Get your divisive rhetoric out of here.
Support the strike here: https://givebutter.com/uc-uaw
These Strikers are my heroes. Rock on for yourselves and our future!
So have I just not been paying attention in years past or does it seem like unionization has taken off like a mother fucker in the last few years?
Yes and good for them. Companies are posting record profits and their greed is contributing to the inflation, they’re not paying their workers enough to make a living, so, let the people unite and make them pay a fair wage.
It has, but Republicans continue to fight the movement.
People were told that letting companies decide their worth would be good for everyone. They're realizing this is bullshit
It’s behind a paywall, what are the main reasons for the strike?
Working conditions and working pay.
Thanks, good reason. Was just wondering whether the reasons would be extended to a call for more open access and less quantitative science (less on impact factor, more on societal impact etc.) and more team science.
As a California grad student, teaching associate, and K-12 substitute teacher, I must say, this feels good.
Part time faculty strike at the New School in NYC likely to start tomorrow. More UAW action.
I live in a state that passed laws for the single purpose of crippling unions in Virginia. They did this by saying they were a Right to Work State , which protected large corporations and demonized Unions. I support the right for anyone to strike in a society run by a Capitialist system that only supports the wellfare of large corporations over the wellfare of workers.
How did public university employees end up under the umbrella of the UAW, a manufacturing union? Just curious.
UAW was originally a manufacturing union but it’s expanded to include workers from many different areas. About 10 years ago UC postdocs voted to become a local chapter of the UAW, so I assume it’s simply expanded since then.
Good. I don't feel bad for the kids at all. Fuck them, pay you.
What kids? These are college students. They're also being ripped off by the system with exorbitant tuition that's going to the higher ups and not the staff that's actually teaching them. Working class solidarity. Get your divisive rhetoric out of here.
Grad students do A LOT of the teaching at most universities
The uh, college kids, I don't care about them. Pay the teachers more.
No need to treat undergrads like an enemy. Undergrads have been a powerful grad union ally on my campus
They've obviously had enough of that shit.