Until or unless that happens, the exploitation continues.
I would not advise anyone now to go for a job in higher ed, especially as a professor, because you’re very likely to end up being PT in it for decades.
A high rate of turnover isn’t generally considered to be a good sign in any industry I can think of. I don’t see why a college would be any different in that respect.
What gets me is that many people who hear of your husband’s situation would tell him he’s lucky to have a job at all or else he should “go get another job.”
As if no one is supposed to breathe a single negative word about poor working conditions, and as if other jobs were easy to grab.
Did you mean stellar or less stale? (Honestly, I read it as “stale” at first and wondered if I might be past expiry after all these years. :D)
How does individual negotiations preclude a pay scale?
They have pay ranges but it is not limited by term of service like a NRLB union job. The employee can negotiate, I have done it dozens of times.
The adjuncts tend to be top performers…it’t tends to be the tenured dead wood that hurts students.
Seriously?
Have you read any of my posts wherein I describe the difference working in a district with a union and without one?
So you’re saying that in most years there are plenty of qualified math, science and special education teachers to fill positions.
Do you realize that you have now completely countered the notion that public employees should NOT be allowed to strike? I believe that both you and Sicks Ate pointed out that many public workers are not easily replacable?
How about …let anybody strike as long as employers can then replace them immediately?
I guess that wouldn’t really work for the public sector since the “employers” are elected officials. Now that’s what I call leverage!
I’m not saying that some people in some jobs can’t negotiate individually. Of course some people can. I’m asking what makes you think that large employers like Disney negotiate each job individually, rather than having all ride attendants start at X or all receptionists start at Y, or all bank tellers start at Z. That’s not negotiation, that’s take it or leave it. My husband actually has negotiated his compensation a few times Sometime the employer offers a lower salary than my husband wants, and my husband agrees to the lower salary in return for more vacation. Other times,my husband has gotten the salary by agreeing to not take the insurance. That’s negotiation, the back and forth. And BTW , Disney World and Disneyland are unionized, the hotels are unionized, and according to Disney’s website, their employees are represented by 40 different unions.
Since this started with me saying the NYPD is not going to be willing to negotiate individually, maybe you could explain why you think they would, taking into account the cost of individually negotiating with over 40,000 people.
Sometimes, yes.
Adjunct faculty will take any class, any time, get good evals, work like crazy just to hang on to an unstable position, and it still doesn’t do them much good in many cases since they are easily replaced. Even having rehire rights in one’s contract is not a guarantee of anything, especially now with all the budget cuts going on.
Yes, “stellar”.
Now, now; you’ve been around long enough to see what we do to posters who rely on this level of rhetoricsl twaddle. It ain’t pretty
It depends what is taken as “high”. A low turnover rate isn’t good either. Just look at our elected officials. Turnover is a healthy thing thing. I can’t find it right now, but the President of SAS airlines was of the mind that at any given point in time the bottom 10% of his workforce should be replaced.
Why not? I’ve negotiated contracts for every job I’ve ever had..
There is no mechanism for this at the college campuses where I’ve worked. No union = no contract = no negotiations.
Oh, the old “we”. :roll eyes: Why am I not surprised that someone with your position regarding unions would not think he should fight his own battles.
Great performance art, though.
That’s a big problem. And disgusting, IMO. But I think the real culprit here is the union, who it benefits. Not t let off the hook the administration who want to take the easy way out.
So I see magellan01 did not address any of my points in Post#127 - especially the implication that my memory of my work histories are apparently false memories.
Well, why should your Post#127 be different?
Absolutely. Now how about you tell me what seems odd about what you cited from me?
I don’t recall. If you think there’s something you’d like me to cover that I already haven’t, feel free to provide it. I have better things to do than track down all your posts and answer to what I think you think is so important.
There might be. Depends on where and when. Oh, and if a there is a requirement for a teaching certificate of some kind and how easy it is to acquire one.
I have done no such thing.
You believe incorrectly. Not easy to replace does not necessarily mean that there aren’t people willing and able to do the job. There is also process. Oh and the unions that try to make it impossible to hire anyone who is not a union member.