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[ladybronwyn]

Apparently e-mail from the Teaching Assistants' Association brings up a link to "Unions: The 7 Great Lies - LRIonline.com/7_Lies - Do you know them? Don't let your employees vote before you see this." I'm too busy grading papers to follow up on the link, but I did want to note that my union is responsible for getting me pretty decent health/dental

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[archlords]

They don't take up significant bandwidth, and I often actually get something useful out of them.

When I was in training for Payless, they had us watch a video about how unions are evil and their only purpose is to trick you into giving them money for nothing. It is owned by Kroger, after all.

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[ladybronwyn]

Hm, somehow I had only heard of Wal-mart doing that. I didn't realize the practice was so widespread. And a good thing it is, too--we wouldn't want to assume that people old enough to work might also be intelligent enough to be able to figure out for themselves whether or not they would benefit from forming/joining a union. (/sarcasm)

[att4ck_k1tten]

A family friend works at Rutgers as a highly distinguished professor. However, he isn't going to get much of a pension at all because the union has hammered out a contract where the pension benefits must be exactly the same for all faculty and staff - so he will get the same pension and retirement benefits as the janitors.

I mean, there is equity and there is equity. I thought the idea was that professors were supposed to earn more and get more comprehensive benefits because they are more highly skilled labor, right?

[ladybronwyn]

Interesting. I'm guessing that the union represents the staff and not the faculty? At least I think that's typically the way it works--it seems as though the higher you move up the pay/skill scale, the less likely you are to be represented by any kind of union or worker association. Maybe the faculty should organize. :P