Ken’s Take: There’s just something about somebody with guaranteed lifetime employment unionizing that strikes me as inappropriate. Many workers would give up their smoke breaks for a guaranteed job for life.
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Excerpted from WSJ: Professors of the World, Unite, Oct. 17, 2009
Wisconsin tests whether profs will be thinkers or unionists.
Over the past 10 years or so, unions have become an increasingly common presence at colleges and universities. More than 375,000 faculty and graduate students are members of a collective bargaining unit.
In 2008, the American Federation of Teachers announced a joint campaign with the American Association of University Professors to unionize more public universities.
If some professors at the University of Wisconsin at Madison get their way, the first thing a newly minted PhD will learn about is not research or teaching—but union dues. This summer Wisconsin’s Democratic Governor Jim Doyle gave the school’s professors the right to unionize.
If UW Madison goes, expect more academic “free-thinkers” to go over to the union mind set.
Full article:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204409904574350834263887324.html?mod=djemEditorialPage
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