Outsourcing educational services: financialization and fighting back by unions
by Danny Weil
by Juan Garcia, a rank-and-file member of CUE-Teamsters Local 2010 and member of New Direction, a reform movement inside of CUE-Teamsters
I’m sure UCB is a testing ground for this model and I know other UCs and education institutes are using “cost-savings” centers as a guise to impose worse working-conditions for it’s staff at the expense of lower quality services to students, faculty and the campus. Here’s the piece (thanks to folks).
Operation Elimination coming soon to you this fall
OE is austerity, layoffs, and a mechanism for the privatization of public education
Workers and students at UC Berkeley will be facing the next phase in austerity and privatization this Fall semester – Operational Excellence’s (OE) “Shared Services”. The university’s administration is setting the groundwork for much of its plan this summer and students and workers are yet again not being asked for their input on Shared Services’ most glaring proposal – to move hundreds of UCB campus staff to one remotely located building in San Pablo (miles from campus), a one-stop building that would handle IT, Human
