Unions and education.Deborah Meier's "On Unions and Education" (Dissent Magazine, Winter 2004) confirms that unions remain education's greatest hope. Beginning with the support unions gave her as founder of the Central Part East schools in New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. and the Mission Hill School in Boston, she concludes by writing: "Not only are strong teacher unions critical to the success of teaching and learning, they are critical to the survival of the conditions needed to support teaching and learning. They are critical to the success of the minion of public schools in a democracy: to produce citizens who can effectively rule. Although there are many folks out there who have a stake in good public schools, the only organized and experienced allies, committed over time and with the necessary expertise and resources, are the teachers' unions (http:www.dissentmagazine.org/menutest/articles/wi04 /meier.htm). The California Public Employment Relations Board (PERB PERB Public Employment Relations Board (Canada) PERB Phoenix Employment Relations Board (Arizona) PERB Performance Evaluation Review Board ) verified on March 16, 2004 that a majority of over 6,000 teaching associates, graduate assistants, tutors, and graders in the California State University system California State University System, coordinating agency established in 1960 by the merger of individual California state colleges, now consisting of 23 campuses. chose to unionize under the banner of the California Alliance of Academic Student Employees/United Auto Workers (CAASE/UAW). For more information, e-mail caaseuaw@ earthlink.net. Even though it is one of Manhattan's most progressive institutions, for the last year the New School University has persistently sought to undermine the organizing efforts made by its part-time instructors, who earn an average of $2,700 per course, without benefits ("New School, Old Tricks," The Nation, April 5, 2004). In September 2003, the Rhode Island Board of Governors for Higher Education ratified the first graduate assistants' contract in the State of Rhode Island. Membership in the Graduate Assistants United (GAU), the AAUP AAUP abbr. American Association of University Professors AAUP n abbr (= American Association of University Professors) → asociación de profesores universitarios AAUP chapter representing 600 graduate assistants at URI Uri, in the Bible Uri (y  `rī), in the Bible.1 Father of Bezaleel (1.) 2 Father of Geber (2.) 3 Porter. , provided for the first increase in stipends in several years and paid for student health insurance, parking fee waivers, and released time for GAU union activities. Unionized graduate assistants at the University of Wisconsin-Madison “University of Wisconsin” redirects here. For other uses, see University of Wisconsin (disambiguation). A public, land-grant institution, UW-Madison offers a wide spectrum of liberal arts studies, professional programs, and student activities. conducted a two-day walkout in April 2004 to protest contract offers from the state. The Teaching Assistants' Association and the state had reached a stalemate over health insurance (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel is a daily morning broadsheet printed in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA. It is the primary newspaper in Milwaukee, the largest newspaper in Wisconsin and is distributed widely throughout the state. , April 28, 2004, www.jsonline.com/news/ metro/apr04/225402.asp). "Union Matters" is an article on unionization of part-time faculty, and labor issues in the U.S. generally, with some precautionary information about the AFL-CIO AFL-CIO: see American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations. AFL-CIO in full American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations U.S. (http://chronicle.com/ temp/email.php?id=7bymjee5xt6wxlshzv735esifpmi5n8r). |
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