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Mr.Mystery

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2. A good start, but professors need a real union . . . that can negotiate contracts.

Reply to TexasTowelie (Original post)

Fri Nov 4, 2022, 01:49 PM

Nov 2022

Why professors don't use the NEA or the AFT and form bargaining units, I don't know.

It's partly because a lot of them think because they are such experts in their fields they can do better negotiating for themselves, and that's where they are VERY wrong.

The Union would stop women faculty from making only about 80 cents for every male faculty's dollar for instance, and it could fully protect tenure etc.

Instead, professors rely on a traditional "honor system" which administrators and boards of regents etc. are all to happy to violate and exploit.

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A good start, but professors need a real union . . . that can negotiate contracts. Mr.Mystery Nov 2022 #2