Introductory note:
advertising Then I limited to a segment of a communication from a professor at the University of Wisconsin, published what is agreed are grounds of prudence and safety Use of this teacher in a warning be very dangerous work. There are aspects and issues personally believe are of great value and similarity to witness debates in Puerto Rico. Certainly live in times when the current of history lessons emerging (as the events in Egypt) we illustrate valuable concepts that we must address.
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The respect and affection across the different departments produce faculty members forge united actions. Usually isolated in their individual programs, faculty members can be brought together to find common cause and to define a common mission. The united action can attract more faculty members in the dialogue each other until they form a genuine democratic community.
The goal is to win the right to bargain over working conditions. No one has to ask my colleagues to work jointly with colleagues at Bowling Green for example. The effort is stunningly spontaneous. You can not resist.
Everything is under threat. They propose ending the right to bargain collectively for all public employees, including faculty. You lose the right of the right to negotiate wages and working conditions. You lose the power authority to ensure due process in labor grievances against tax administrators. You lose the right of the right to define merit. Be forfeited negotiated intellectual property. You lose the right to academic freedom. Lost property rights related to the number of positions and removal. All this would be replaced by administrative fiat.
should be of grave concern to all faculty members - whether they are in a bargaining unit or not, if they choose to personally be involved in a union or not. The issue is self-determination: whether the faculty and other employees of the sector público deben tener el derecho democrático de elegir su propio destino colectivo.
Como tantas muchas otras luchas de principios, la batalla en Wisconsin para conservar los derechos de la facultad es realmente una lucha a nombre de los miembros del profesorado y de los empleados del sector público en todas partes. Es también una lucha sobre el alma de nuestra democracia. En las semanas y los meses que vienen, una campaña local y nacional masiva será requerida si los empleados públicos han de conservar un lugar de trabajo de colaboración que la negociación colectiva puede hacer posiblemente mejor and just .
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Brief Explanatory Note:
On Thursday thousands of workers and students demonstrated in Madison, Wisconsin's capital, against wage cuts of 8 to 20 percent of state workers and fundamental rights in the workplace.
The public school system in Madison, population 235,000, was closed due to thousands of teachers in the demonstration. On Thursday most of the public schools in the vicinity of Madison were also closed by total absenteeism of teachers.
Thousands of students left the University of Wisconsin, Madison, partially closing one of the largest universities in the U.S. At one point, about 2,000 students marched to the Capitol campus. There, with thousands of demonstrators converged already present, and thousands more continued to arrive in buses and cars.
addition to the strike at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, hundreds of university students protested in the campus of Wisconsin-Eau Claire and Stout . At the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, a crowd of over 1,000 organized a protest in a central part of campus on Thursday. "The whole university was there," says one student. "Students, graduates, teachers, everyone. The whole square was full. "At the University of Wisconsin-Superior, hundreds of teachers, students and university staff came together to protest.
"Everyone knows that this is part of an assault more wide to the ability of workers in this state and this country to have decent lives, "said history professor Joel Sipress. "The same people who want to take away their rights to public employees is the same people who want to say is this-or-nothing society. We will not allow Wisconsin to become a state where the workers live in the waste of the economic elite. "
Amidst all these events as the University of Wisconsin system has permanently suspended from the functions and recognition of the academic senate, the highest forum of the university community.
No wonder the protests of Wisconsin, the state has one of the longest histories of union activity in the United States. It was the first state in which workers won the right to collective bargaining, even right now intend to take all of a sudden.
No wonder the alliance between the struggles of the civil servants, teachers and faculty. There is an interesting milestone in the history of social movements in Wisconsin: the real unity between the university and the common employees place the combined leadership of Robert M. La Follette , member of the local governor's Progressive Party (Socialist) economist with the University of Wisconsin John R. Commons in 1911 became the first workers' compensation laws in 1932 and spent the unemployment compensation. In 1937, the Labour Relations Act of Wisconsin was approved, adding to all workers the right to organize. During the years of the Great Depression (1929-1941), created Wisconsin workers unions that make it one of the most unionized states on a percentage basis, these percentages continue today.
No wonder the people of Wisconsin who has the peculiar distinctiveness de tener los campeones del Super Bowl 2011 en sus Packers, el único equipo profesional en el primer nivel de un deporte masivo cuyos propietarios son los habitantes del pueblo de Green Bay. En medio del despliegue billonario de los deportes megacapitalistas, los Green Bay Packers son un equipo comunista en lo que respecta a su estructura organizativa.
La Universidad de Wisconsin, me consta personalmente ha visitado a Puerto Rico en diferentes facetas por más de una década para colaborar con esfuerzos investigativos y foros académicos a los niveles más exigentes en diferentes industrias.
No me extraña el mensaje A teacher I know personally of his annual visits to the island, visits in which she combines her love for Puerto Rico and its people with purely professional efforts thus in agreement I will not mention his name or even its intellectual subject area .
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Wisconsin Labor History Society
http://www.wisconsinlaborhistory.org/
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