May Day: The University of Maryland Public Workers air grievances regarding despicable working conditions, racism, sexism, patronage and cronyism
Business, EducationMay 1, 2011
Picture of Maryland University forum held by Black Faculty and Staff Association to address public workers’ concerns, April 26, 2011
In the public sector of our society, to take one example within public universities, the school administration is the ‘managerial class’ that overseas education and all the workers who labor within the public university system. This class includes the administration that overseas teacher-workers, the management that supervises students and the managerial class that oversees public classified workers, or those blue collar workers who keep the various campuses and schools maintained and in working order. This managerial class is the class with the bloated salaries and with minimal work to do, other than time and motion studies on workers while simultaneously intensely scrutinizing the direct reports they command. This is also the class that enjoys the benefits of patronage and cronyism – the privileges and and interests that come with running the school as a mere factory with a distinct division of labor. It is also the corrupt