Category Archives: privatization

Albert Einstein on Collective Bargaining

Posted on April 6, 2012 by ucsdfac

Think collective action is outside the realm of science?  Albert Einstein didn’t think so.  In “Out of My Later Years” (most recent print by Grammercy, 1993), the Noble-prize winning physicist – and founding member of AFT Local 552 at Princeton … Continue reading →

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“Time for a Faculty Union”: The View from Oregon

Posted on March 4, 2012 by ucsdfac

This week, SDFA President Ivan Evans and Vice-President Luis Martin-Cabrera are heading up to Eugene to observe the current union card membership drive that is taking place at the University of Oregon (UO).  Prof. Gordon Lafer (shown here) of UO’s Labor Education and Research … Continue reading →

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UCSD at UCR: Protesting the January 19th UC Regents Meeting

Posted on January 24, 2012 by ucsdfac

Bright and early on the morning of January 19th, a contingent of 40 student and faculty representatives from UCSD boarded a bus provided by the SDFA and headed out to join the protest against the UC Regents meeting at UC … Continue reading →

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UCSF Chancellor Susan Desmond-Hellmann, corporate privatizer and union buster, wants UCSF out of the UC system

Posted on January 24, 2012 by ucsdfac

On January 19th, UCSF Chancellor Susan Desmond-Hellmann floated a plan to the UC Regents to identify new funding sources for her campus.  From the announcement: “UCSF Chancellor Susan Desmond-Hellmann, MD, MPH, proposed to the University of California Regents on Jan. 19 that a small … Continue reading →

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$49 Can Save the UC

Posted on November 2, 2011 by ucsdfac

Stanton Glantz, CUCFA member and Professor of Medicine at UCSF has written the following perspective on how just how little it would cost to roll back fees and maintain excellence at the University of California. $49 can save the UC … Continue reading →

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Einstein (brings in grant money!) vs Aristotle (what, no grant money?): which one would you hire (or fire)?

Posted on October 25, 2011 by ucsdfac

 by Ivan Evans, President, UCSD Faculty Association  Faculty at UC have long been painfully aware that their salaries lag behind pay scales at “comparable universities” across the country. And so UCOP came up with a remedy: the off-scale salary, which … Continue reading →

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