Sticking to the Union: The War on Organized Faculty and How We Can Resist

Autor/in	Volchok, Edward
Titel	Sticking to the Union: The War on Organized Faculty and How We Can Resist
Quelle	In: Thought & Action, 34 (2018) 1, S.23-48 (26 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0748-8475
Schlagwörter	Stellungnahme; Unions; College Faculty; Labor Legislation; Court Litigation; Activism; Collective Bargaining; Resistance (Psychology); Urban Universities; New York (New York) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Fakultät; Labor law; Arbeitsrecht; Rechtsstreit; Aktivismus; Politischer Protest; Tarifverhandlung; Resistenz
Abstract	Right-to-work (RTW) laws neither provide opportunity for gainful employment nor a higher standard of living. In truth, by ending a union's ability to charge administrative fees to employees who benefit from their collectively bargained contract, these laws aim to weaken unions and silence workers. They are designed to help employers, not workers. On June 27, 2018, with its long anticipated 5 to 4 decision in "Janus v. AFSCME," the Supreme Court has made RTW the law of the land. In this article, the author reviews the decades of well-funded, anti-union RTW activism that led to this decision. The focus of this article is on public-sector unions, in general, and faculty and staff unions in particular. The author shows that RTW is part of a movement to weaken unions, abolish collective bargaining in the public sector, privatize higher education, eliminate faculty tenure, and curtail academic freedom. The article discusses how faculty union leaders and rank-and-file members can--and "must"--resist for the sake of our students, our universities, our communities, and ourselves. (ERIC).
Anmerkungen	National Education Association. 1201 16th Street NW Washington, DC 20036. Tel: 202-833-4000; Fax: 202-822-7974; Web site: http://www.nea.org
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2020/1/01