BREAKING NEWS
Occupation
Students and local clergy occupy
the UIUC administration building.
Strike
UAW authorizes 3-day TA strike on
Berkeley campus.
Sit-in
300 students occupy the mall at OSU
to raise wages for CWA workers
Decision
The NLRB decides in favor of GSOC-UAW.
Election
Barbara Bowen's New Caucus scores
massive victory.
Vote:
Lecturers at EMU vote to unionize.
Teach-in
Aronowitz and Nelson, CNN coverage
at GWU, with a report on the coalition by Sharon Hanscom
Meeting:
An Open Meeting To Discuss the Future
of Workplace will be held at the MLG
Summer Institute, June 10-17, 2000. All are welcome.
Casting
Call:
For the First Annual Workplace Holiday
Theatricals at the Modern Language Association Annual Meeting, December
27-30, 2000.
MORE BREAKING
NEWS:
The
Coalition of Graduate Employee Unions
Progressive
Information Network
Association
of American University Professors (AAUP)
United
Auto Workers (UAW)
American
Federation of Teachers (AFT)
Communications
Workers of America (CWA)
Marxist
Literary Group--Mediations
Radical
Teacher
Cultural
Logic
Teachers
for a Democratic Culture
Scholars,
Artists and Writers for Social Justice (SAWSJ)
Graduate
Student Caucus (GSC-MLA) |
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"The other thing that makes labor
a compelling field for student activists is that it is multi-racial and
multi-gendered; it’s an area where white students can connect to people
of color in their places of work, and also where students of different
races can work together." --Barbara Bowen, speaking
with Ann Wallace
a tribute
to Barbara Bowen |
"Academics do have an obligation
to imagine better vistas for the university. We should see ourselves as
part of the social fabric, serving a public need. It's a two-way street,
which sometimes gets lost in the realm of professional affect, which casts
us as brainy individuals doing unique research projects, rather than as
participants in public life." --Jeffrey
Williams, speaking with F. L. Carr
a
tribute to Jeff Williams by Bruce Robbins |
| "What do these campaigns have in
common? All four are being waged by an alliance of workers, union organizers,
and academics willing to combine their skills, both to organize resistance
to exploitative labor practices and to effectively publicize these practices."--Jamie
Owen Daniel |
After
the Washington Consensus: An Introduction
Christian Gregory, section editor
Last
Tuesday in Seattle
Rich Daniels
The
World Trade Organization: A Flawed Conception
Kenneth Surin
Seattle
and Beyond
Doug Henwood
Making
Better Connections:
Some
Thoughts on Rhetoric and Solidarity
Jamie Owen Daniel
| These young people... are being starved
and bullied. The university is refusing to negotiate with these bright,
ambitious young people -- the future leaders of our society --and is threatening
to fire them unless they cave in before February 1. Many fear this is just
a prelude to some new form of thuggish, exploitative wage-slavery. Yours
in shock, horror and dismay, Margaret Atwood |
Organizing
Canada
Daniel Kim, section editor
The
Arc of an Action: Email about the Toronto TA Strike
Leo Parascondola
By Way of Introduction:
Some Thoughts on Difference
Douglas Ivison
ACCESS
2000: an interview with Joel Harden and Steven Kammerer
Ellie Kennedy
A Chronology
of the University of Toronto T.A. Strike
Daniel Kim
Organizing
Against a Large and Powerful Employer
Mikael Antony Swayze
Good Cop? An Update
from the Task Force on Graduate Funding
David Goutor
Lessons of
a Job Action: A Strike Coordinator's View
Chantal Sundaram
T.A.s Walk The
Line: Two Perspectives
Aparna Sundar and Kyoko Sato
Looking
Back at TRACC (Queen's U.)
Sarah Riegel
Roller-coaster
Ride: Bargaining at McMaster 99-00
June M. Madeley
Tea with Mrs. Mussolini
Elizabeth Skakoon
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