Posted on 01/22/2024 6:20:40 AM PST by artichokegrower
SAN FRANCISCO - Thousands of college professors and other faculty members are set to start a week-long strike Monday. It's part of a system-wide strike across all California State Universities.
(Excerpt) Read more at ktvu.com ...
Workless and get paid more. Makes sense to me.
Fire them all. Start over without tenure and pay them about $45,000 each.
Will anybody notice?
They’re taking vacation to march for terrorism and block commerce
So, they know the system is swimming in excess cash and demand their cut:
From the article:
“To make sure our voices are heard, and this disruption is unfortunately the one way we have to make that happen,” said Newcomb, president of the California Faculty Association’s East Bay chapter.
This will be the first time faculty from all 23 CSUs will be striking together. In the Bay Area, that includes Cal State East Bay, Cal Maritime, Sonoma State, San Jose State and San Francisco State.
There will likely be thousands of classes canceled across the state. The faculty hope this shows that the system would fall apart without them.
“Faculty working conditions are indeed student learning conditions. And without those learning conditions in play, there’s not much left of the university,” said Newcomb.
The California Faculty Association, the union made up of 29,000 professors, lecturers, coaches and librarians, said negotiations have stalled with the CSU system.
The union’s four demands include more reasonable workloads, such as smaller class sizes, health additions like gender-neutral bathrooms and lactation centers, a semester of paid leave for new families, and a 12% wage increase for all faculty.
CSU’s best and final offer is a 5% wage increase, arguing that more than that isn’t financially viable.
But Newcomb said the union had an independent forensic report done, and it shows the system has enough money.
“We know that the state university system has in reserves over $8 billion that is unaccounted for, or unallocated,” said Newcomb.
CSU leaders have said all campuses will remain open during the strike, and they have a contingency plan in place to maintain operations and hopefully minimize disruption to students.
Newcomb believes many students support this strike.
“We have very good relationships, I believe, with all of our students. They are with us and will be joining us on our picket lines beginning tomorrow,” he said.
Lock the doors when they walk out. The illegals don’t need them, anyway.
“Will anybody notice?”
That is one of the most astute questions I have heard in a long time... lol
Will the students care?
Good
Describes public/government/educational "workers" to a T.
Send them on sabbatical to the People’s Republic of China.Few will survive to return because almost all of them are drug users.
I guess breastfeeding is no longer politically correct. Lactation center sounds like a place where women are lined up like dairy cows.
less exposure to professors = less exposure to kooky ideology.
I view it as a good thing.
Damn! All the best comments have been taken.
Let them strike. The students and taxpayers would be better off.
California Debt ClockLucky Democrats in California are so-o-o-o uninformed. It must be all that university 'edjukashun.'Currently about $589 billion in state and local debt. Debt to state GDP ratio: 15.52 %, and that is in addition to the national debt burden.
Main Stream Fly-bys wont report.
“less exposure to professors = less exposure to kooky ideology.
I view it as a good thing.”
I agree!
GMTA
Many if not most college professors work 24/7.
Twenty-four hours a week,seven months a year.
Actually, C.O.L.
Only the crony “contract” contractors will survive.
Tuition consequences will shut down independent non-system education.
You don't have to pay even that much to get someone with good plagiarizing skills.
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