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Florida House attacks college-teacher tenure, unless you’re the president
Tomorrow, the Florida House K-20 Competitiveness Subcommittee has on its agenda a newly-filed proposed committee bill that would eliminate tenure in the Florida College System. The Florida College System is the set of more than two dozen former community colleges that educate hundreds of thousands of Floridians every year. (California has a three-tier public higher-ed system; […]
Florida SB 736: Overreach and overpromise
This week Florida Governor Rick Scott signed Senate Bill 736, which attempts to change a number of working conditions for teachers in Florida's public schools. The headline issues: For new teachers hired after June 30 this year, it prohibits any employment contract longer than one year. The bill also mandates that a derivative of student […]
Union elections
Tomorrow is vote-counting for our chapter of the United Faculty of Florida. EDU 214 on the Tampa campus of the University of South Florida, beginning at noon, if you want to come watch in person. I am not on the ballot for chapter officers because I agreed to become department chair starting in August, and […]
Why Faculty Like Me Support Unions
I joined the United Faculty of Florida my first semester at USF, in 1996. I joined because I wish there had been a graduate-student union at the University of Pennsylvania, where graduate assistants in some colleges were paid well below poverty rates and yet were told that if they were given any assistance, they could […]
The Loeb Rule and pugilistic anti-unionism circa 2011
In the 1910s, the Chicago Board of Education cut the legs out from under the first successful teachers union, the Chicago Teachers Federation (AFT Local #1), by forbidding teachers from joining unions. The Board of Education fired dozens of teachers (about half of whom were CTF members), and the CTF pulled back its membership from […]