Stephanie Zvan of Quiche Moraine Dot Com has just posted an item on the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA) … the bill that affects how workers can form unions, which is so controversial in a very partisan way at the moment.
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On two different occasions collective bargaining of faculty was considered at our university. Both times the majority signed cards to bring the issue to a vote. Both times forums and discussions ensued, pros and cons were debated, union claims were examined and evaluated, and both times collective bargaining was defeated by an over whelming margin.
Under the new EFCA rules our faculty would have been unionized. Some of us did not even know a card drive was under way because they stopped as soon as they had enough signatures to bring a vote.
The EFCA lowers the bar to a rediculous level. Oh and I bet it will remain nearly impossible to vote the union out.
Faculty were coerced by colleagues to sign the card so the vote would occur too.
So count me as labor soundly against EFCA.
DrA, your bet would be wrong. This would be why I’ve been writing about the bill. Try reading it.
Also, if you’re working for a state university, the rules are likely different for you anyway. Government units always have different employment rules.
I would have thought a faculty would not have a union but a professional association anyway.
@DrA:
I have to second Stephanie Z here: it astonishes me that you would comment here on the subject, rather than follow the link to the article, read it, and make your comments there.
Have you ever written a blog article? It’s orders of magnitude more work than writing a simple comment in response (although even comments take work if you research them properly, something I’ve been burned by more than once). After all the work she put in creating two well researched and written blog articles, the least you could have done was read them (and perhaps follow the links).
And, for the record, I also have an anti-union bias, although I’m not a fanatic about it. IMO there are better ways to solve the problems than the EFCA, but solved the problems must be, somehow.
“I would have thought a faculty would not have a union but a professional association anyway.”
Depends on how you define faculty, back when I was a graduate student and a TA, we were part of a separate union along with the part-time instructors and all the support stuff. The tenured professors had their own union/association that was entirely separate.