How would Shelby handle this? - USM Forum -- Message Board

Date: Mar 4, 2005

How would Shelby handle this?

Date: Mar 4, 2005

Malaspina is in Canada (British Columbia, maybe?). And Canadian professors are all unionized. Different world...

Robert Campbell

Date: Mar 4, 2005

An industry that does not treat its employees fairly invites uninionization. If Mississippi permitted unions (which it does not), and USM were an industry (which it rapidly becoming), the union organizers would be swarming all over campus. I love AAUP, but oh you Teamsters!

Date: Mar 4, 2005

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Originally posted by: Robert Campbell
"Malaspina is in Canada (British Columbia, maybe?). And Canadian"

True, Dr. Campbell. But I believe the question was "how would Shelby handle something like this?"

I sure don't think he'd include a sentence like, "We have always enjoyed amicable and positive relations with our teaching and non-teaching faculty and highly value their commitment to students and their excellence in teaching and service. Unfortunately, in negotiations the Malaspina Board is caught between a rock and a hard place because it has little control over monetary items such as salaries, which are set by the Provincial Government."

More likely, he'd issue some proclamation about lamers not wanting to do a day's work for a day's pay & shortchanging the hardworking taxpayers of Mississippi, most of whom are paying taxes that are ludicrously low.

Date: Mar 4, 2005

True... but in several other parts of the United States, the administration would respond to a faculty strike with anti-faculty rhetoric. Of course Thames is in a class by himself, when it comes to venting his despisal.

RC