Strategically, it sounds like they're trying to force the FA into the job action and betting that opinion will go their way. What are the sticking points?
On Sun, Aug 21, 2011 at 2:16 PM, <123hop at comcast.net> wrote:
> All the best. Let us know what if anything we can do to support you.
>
> JOanna
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Alan Rudy" <alan.rudy at gmail.com>
> To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
> Sent: Sunday, August 21, 2011 8:10:08 AM
> Subject: [lbo-talk] seems 99% sure
>
> that the Central Michigan University Faculty Association will be engaging
> in
> a job action starting Monday.
> The FA, I'm told the oldest faculty union in the country, hasn't had a
> contract for five months, the
> administration hasn't moved an inch since negotiations began, "fact
> finding"
> has gotten negotiations
> nowhere and the administration negotiated in public - explicitly against
> the
> agreed upon rules - and so,
> on the first day of teaching of my first semester at CMU as what they call
> regular faculty, we're almost
> assuredly going to begin picketing.
> A
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