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Temple Student Strike Turns Ugly as School Ends Some Tuition Aid
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Re: Temple Student Strike Turns Ugly as School Ends Some Tuition Aid
#92Why would they be paid during a strike? As far as I know, it is pretty common to shut off benefits to strikers as they aren’t working.
Re: Temple Student Strike Turns Ugly as School Ends Some Tuition Aid
#93Earlier quoted context omitted.
Can you point to some of those Twitter comments? I'm honestly curious of which labor laws they are violating. For example, I just did a search regarding healthcare for striking workers, and there is no federal law that prevents cancelling healthcare, to the point that some congresspeople have introduced bills in the last year to specifically outlaw that (but, to emphasize, those are just bills, they haven't been pass…
Original note below the line. Unfortunately, as pointed out by tptacek [0]: > The wrinkle is that Temple's employees are public-sector employees, who are exempt from the NLRA --- but they're not necessarily exempt from equivalent Philadelphia law. tptacek appears to be correct [1]. That said, there is a Pennsylvanian 1970 "Public Employe Relations Act" that could cover unfair practices including retaliation but I can…
That almost certainly refers to rewarding non-strikers relative to strikers after the strike has been resolved. It is not against the law to cease paying wages and providing benefits to strikers while the strike is in progress. Of course with tuition there is a pro-rata issue, i.e. the benefit should return after the strike is over.
Re: Temple Student Strike Turns Ugly as School Ends Some Tuition Aid
#94If these grad students are in research-oriented programs, with an RA or TA job, the tuition might be Hollywood Accounting anyway -- a number the students might not have even seen before, nor even realize exists -- and now it's been weaponized.
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#95> “Any Temple employee that decides to strike forfeits their pay and complete benefits package,” explained Temple University senior vice president and chief operating officer Ken Kaiser. Here's the problem -- that's a business solution. This decision is intended to benefit Temple the business, not the Temple the university. The administration is too busy filing TPS reports to realize that they're curating something a…
But it is a business. We are not talking about a YouTube channel of lecturers, we are talking about an organization with 2.7 billion dollars of annual revenue.
Businesses have public relations.
This is a bad look.
Re: Temple Student Strike Turns Ugly as School Ends Some Tuition Aid
#96> “Any Temple employee that decides to strike forfeits their pay and complete benefits package,” explained Temple University senior vice president and chief operating officer Ken Kaiser. Here's the problem -- that's a business solution. This decision is intended to benefit Temple the business, not the Temple the university. The administration is too busy filing TPS reports to realize that they're curating something a…
Well, they hired a university president out of Goldman Sachs and consulting, who wrote a book that basically argues that universities need to base their curriculum on what corporations tell them to do, so I'm not terribly surprised at the path they're taking.
Re: Temple Student Strike Turns Ugly as School Ends Some Tuition Aid
#97There is no good reason at all for society to accept and institutionalize the sense of entitlement that unionizing workers have. You don't get any moral right to extra-contractual benefits just because you agree to an employment contract.
Almost all of the problems society has emanate from the ideological narratives of victimhood (e.g. the superficially plausible but fundamentally fallacious notion that parties with different levels wealth cannot engage in fair negotiations in the absence of a regulatory straightjacket being placed on the wealthier party) created to rationalize this sense of entitlement.
This institutionalized entitlement creates massive rent-seeking/inefficiency:
https://www.hoover.org/research/california-state-government-...
In the private sector, it guts industries, and thus harms workers at large, for the short term benefit of a select group of workers, e.g. Detroit was the richest city in the US, with the highest per capita, in 1950. 70 years later, after it was taken over by the UAW Union, it's a shadow of its former self.
Re: Temple Student Strike Turns Ugly as School Ends Some Tuition Aid
#98Earlier quoted context omitted.
This (see below) seems to be the problem - students are being forced to pay for something that was originally gratis (punished) because they are protesting about something. That is not normally how a liberal democracy works. We don't punish requests for comments, we engage ... ================================================= Dear Temple Student: As a result of your participation in the TUGSA strike, your tuition rem…
But look at this closely, with engagement. Currently, they are on strike, so tuition remissions cannot be issued. If that remains the case until March 6th, they will need to pay. If the strike is resolved before March 6th, and then they still refuse to issue the remissions, that would be a significant violation.
> “Any Temple employee that decides to strike forfeits their pay and complete benefits package,” explained Temple University senior vice president and chief operating officer Ken Kaiser. “Tuition remission is part of the TUGSA benefit package. Therefore, they are no longer eligible.”
Heavily implies that it's irreversible.
Re: Temple Student Strike Turns Ugly as School Ends Some Tuition Aid
#99> “Any Temple employee that decides to strike forfeits their pay and complete benefits package,” explained Temple University senior vice president and chief operating officer Ken Kaiser. Here's the problem -- that's a business solution. This decision is intended to benefit Temple the business, not the Temple the university. The administration is too busy filing TPS reports to realize that they're curating something a…
My Alma-Mater, more interested in hiring administrators than new professors, or even retaining full time professors. Schools a joke, especially this one.
Yup - a relative of mine has been an associate professor there for fourteen years. Giving out tenure is something I'm pretty sure they'll only do if they're backed into a corner.
Re: Temple Student Strike Turns Ugly as School Ends Some Tuition Aid
#100> “Any Temple employee that decides to strike forfeits their pay and complete benefits package,” explained Temple University senior vice president and chief operating officer Ken Kaiser. Here's the problem -- that's a business solution. This decision is intended to benefit Temple the business, not the Temple the university. The administration is too busy filing TPS reports to realize that they're curating something a…
>"This decision is intended to benefit Temple the business, not the Temple the university."
More and more it seems like academics are just a front for running a hedge fund - one that gets very favorite tax treatment. Growing the endowment is the most important thing in the minds of the leadership.