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May Day: The University of Maryland Public Workers air grievances regarding despicable working conditions, racism, sexism, patronage and cronyism | Dailycensored.com

May Day: The University of Maryland Public Workers air grievances regarding despicable working conditions, racism, sexism, patronage and cronyism

Written by Danny WeilBusiness, EducationMay 1, 2011
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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

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As Workers Celebrate May Day, Union Officials Attempt to Steal Internal Leadership Election « Occupy UCI!

As Workers Celebrate May Day, Union Officials Attempt to Steal Internal Leadership Election « Occupy UCI!

As Workers Celebrate May Day, Union Officials Attempt to Steal Internal Leadership Election

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Grad Union Reformers Call on UAW 2865 to Count Every Vote in Union Leadership Election

The UAW 2865 internal union Elections Committee has been conducting a vote count since Friday, April 29th for a contentious election for the Local’s top elected leadership. As the count proceeded, it appeared possible that a slate of reformers, Academic Workers for a Democratic Union (www.awdu.org) would win the election. Then, at 8 pm Saturday, April 30, the incumbent- controlled Election Committee abruptly decided to terminate the vote count, leaving 1500 ballots uncounted — nearly half the ballots cast.

In a blatant effort to hold on to the power and privileges of their high paying positions, paid union official Daraka Larimore-Hall and his incumbent slate have tried to spin this egregious violation of UAW election procedures. Many of the incumbent candidates are not graduate students, including three of the incumbent candidates for top

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Schools Matter: Mr. White Hat Back in the Driver's Seat in Ohio Politics

Schools Matter: Mr. White Hat Back in the Driver's Seat in Ohio Politics

Mr. White Hat Back in the Driver's Seat in Ohio Politics

by Jim Horn
For awhile it seemed as if the corrupt charter school chain gangs run by corporate welfare leech, David Brennan, would be brought to some public accountability in Ohio. With the return, however, of free-to-pillage Republican rule in Ohio, accomplished with the help of Brennan's $4+ million in campaign donations over the years, this bloodsucker is back in the catbird's seat (for background go here, here, here, here, here, and here).

With the return of Brennan comes new legislation written with Mr. White Hat in mind. As reported in this storyby the Post-Dispatch, Brennan even goes so far as have proposed legislation to lie about the fact that public money will go his for-profit sleazy outfit to exploit the poorest kids of Ohio:
• Specify that funds paid to the operator by the [public] school are not considered public funds.
So what will separate Ohio from the most corrupt banana republics of the Western world? Nothing. When it gets too corrupt even for the Fordham Institute, you know the sewer is totally open:

A leading school-choice supporter says the sweeping changes proposed by House Republicans
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“What Parent Engagement Posts Did Readers Find Most “Engaging” This Past Quarter? | Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day...

“What Parent Engagement Posts Did Readers Find Most “Engaging” This Past Quarter?

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Many readers know I have written a book about parent engagement in schools and have a separate blog on the topic. I thought readers of this blog might be interested in seeing the most popular posts from that other blog.

Post Rank uses a variety of ways to measure level of “engagement” that readers have with specific blog posts. I have a constantly updated “widget” on my blog’s sidebar that lists these posts, but I thought a quarterly post would be helpful/interesting to subscribers who don’t regularly visit the blog itself.

Here’s a listing of the “most engaged” posts from the previous quarter.

Here are their rankings for this past quarter:

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Pissed Off: Shame On You

Pissed Off: Shame On You

Shame On You

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Looking at pictures from the rally, I noticed something very unsettling. I saw a preponderance of older teachers and a handful of young ones. Many of the older teachers are retiring this year or in the very near future and still took the time to come, to show support and to fight for what is right. The young ones, the ones with careers ahead of them couldn't be bothered taking time away from their busy weekends. Several used the excuse of being on early session, making hanging around until 4:00 PM a hardship. (Most of the senior teachers around

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Modern School: Solidarity: What is it Good For? (Absolutely Everything!)

Modern School: Solidarity: What is it Good For? (Absolutely Everything!)
Solidarity: What is it Good For? (Absolutely Everything!) Poster for League for Industrial Democracy, by Anita Willcox Great Depression, For a while, the term solidarity developed a negative image among Americans, with many associating it with communists, stodgy old school unions, or the right-wing Polish ...
Today In Labor History--May 1 *May 1, International Workers Day!!!! * Mother Jones (Library of Congress) *May 1, 1830 -* Mary Harris "Mother" Jones was born. Mother Jones was renowned for her militancy and fiery oration, as well as her many juicy quotes. She once said, “I’m no ...
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Schools Matter: 62 Percent of American Teachers Work Two Jobs

Schools Matter: 62 Percent of American Teachers Work Two Jobs

62 Percent of American Teachers Work Two Jobs

by Jim Horn
This may be news to those who believe that those fat cat teachers have it made in the shade. From today's NYTimes, some clips from an op-ed by Eggers and Calegari:

. . . .WHEN we don’t get the results we want in our military endeavors, we don’t blame the soldiers. We don’t say, “It’s these lazy soldiers and their bloated benefits plans! That’s why we haven’t done better in Afghanistan!” No, if the results aren’t there, we blame the planners. We blame the generals, the secretary of defense, the Joint Chiefs of Staff. No one contemplates blaming the men and women fighting every day in the trenches for little pay and scant recognition.
And yet in education we do just that. When we don’t like the way our students score on international standardized tests, we blame the teachers. When we don’t like the way particular schools perform, we blame the teachers and restrict their resources.
Compare this with our approach to our military: when results on the ground are not what we hoped, we think of ways to better support soldiers. We try to give them better tools, better weapons,
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Modern School: MAY DAY!!! International Workers Day

Modern School: MAY DAY!!! International Workers Day

MAY DAY!!! International Workers Day

by Michael Dunn

Haymarket Martyrs (Public Domain)
The Knights of Labor had been agitating for the eight hour work day for years, drawing in hundreds of thousands of workers who opposed capitalist power. On May 1, 1884, The Federation of Organized Trades and Labor Unions, forerunner of the AFL, resolved that "8 hours shall constitute a legal day's work from and after May 1, 1886."

By May 1, 1886, workers were taking to the streets to demand the 8-hour day. The movement was centered in Chicago. 50,000 workers were already on strike, with 30,000 more joining their ranks the next day, bringing Chicago manufacturing to a standstill. On Monday, May 3, a fight broke out at McCormick Reaper between locked-out unionists & non-unionist scabs. Heavily armed police moved in with clubs and
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