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More than 100 Wellesley non-tenure track faculty are on strike
Boston.com ^ | April 7, 2025 | Molly Farrar

Posted on 04/08/2025 9:28:20 AM PDT by Salman

More than 100 educators at Wellesley College are striking, causing credit confusion for students while the college is calling on the union to sit down with a mediator.

The union voted to authorize their strike to begin on March 27 after nearly a year of failed bargaining. Now, it says the administration has been “surface bargaining.”

Non-tenure track faculty at the small liberal arts college initially voted to unionize as the Wellesley Organized Academic Workers, or WOAW with the United Auto Workers, in January of last year.

Annie Brubaker, a senior lecturer at Wellesley and a member of the WOAW organizing committee, said the union is bargaining for job security, increased compensation, and a four-course workload.

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When the strike was announced, Brubaker said, the college immediately told students they could be at risk of not receiving full credit for their classes, instructing them to re-enroll in different classes. Credit issues could affect graduation and immigration, Brubaker said.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events; US: Massachusetts
KEYWORDS: education; unions; wellesley

1 posted on 04/08/2025 9:28:20 AM PDT by Salman
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To: Salman

And in other news ...


2 posted on 04/08/2025 9:39:03 AM PDT by JME_FAN ("It's just the normal noises in here.")
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To: Salman

And the school will charge the kids for the new classes they have to enroll in.

Then, at the end of the term, they’ll say “Your class was too short, so credit. Enroll in another class for the fall. Oh, and pay a third time!”

It’s nice of these “educators” to care so much for their students. Typical Dems! They don’t Give a Sh!t for people.


3 posted on 04/08/2025 9:43:48 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (Don't be a "PANICAN" or a "PANICRAT")
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To: ProtectOurFreedom
As it happens, both sides in this dispute are Dems. { snicker }
4 posted on 04/08/2025 9:48:24 AM PDT by Salman (Lasu Eŭropon bruli!)
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To: Salman
Non-tenure track faculty at the small liberal arts college initially voted to unionize as the Wellesley Organized Academic Workers, or WOAW with the United Auto Workers...

Those seem like odd (coughcough) bedfellows to me, but whatever. Time to get some UAW thugs and head-busters to burn a few buildings down at Wellesley to get their attention. They could start with Gender Studies...

5 posted on 04/08/2025 9:55:43 AM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: Billthedrill; Salman; lightman

Harvard has United Auto Workers-run student and faculty labor unions, too!

That would have been unheard of way back when I was at Harvard!


6 posted on 04/08/2025 10:19:55 AM PDT by Honorary Serb (Kosovo is Serbia! Free Srpska! Abolish ICTY!)
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To: Salman

Publicly supported entities should not be unionized, or allowed to strike.


7 posted on 04/08/2025 10:31:50 AM PDT by Glad2bnuts
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To: Salman

Let these so-called “educators” at Hillary U. eat CRT.


8 posted on 04/08/2025 11:02:18 AM PDT by DPMD
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To: Glad2bnuts
Yep, that's it. The school gets a ton of taxpayer money on top of outrageous tuition and these selfish little perfessers want to strike. Screw the students.
Probably because they don't get sympathy leave when a colleague has a baby, or some such crap.
9 posted on 04/08/2025 11:04:57 AM PDT by TangoLimaSierra (⭐⭐To the Left, The Truth is Right Wing Violence⭐⭐)
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To: Salman

You can get tenure at a loony, liberal, lesbian factory? Who knew?


10 posted on 04/08/2025 11:07:15 AM PDT by Tijeras_Slim
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To: Salman

That’s a very big faculty for the Track Department.

What about the other sports.


11 posted on 04/08/2025 11:13:00 AM PDT by x
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To: Salman

Just get their tenured faculty, who earn the big bucks, to teach more than one class, not seminars, per semester.

I’m sure the adjunct faculty are getting screwed over, so I support the union in this case. Plus, Wellesley, Hellary’s alma mater, deserves this progressive conundrum.


12 posted on 04/08/2025 11:18:31 AM PDT by VanShuyten ("...that all the donkeys were dead. I know nothing as to the fate of the less valuable anima)
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To: Salman

Hahahahaha.....

I hope they are soon fired. There are a lot of barista jobs...and jiffy lube.


13 posted on 04/08/2025 1:01:31 PM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: VanShuyten

The adjunct faculty are there so the tenured don’t have to get their hands dirty.

Fire the adjunct.

And tell the tenured to get their backsides back in the classroom.


14 posted on 04/08/2025 1:03:30 PM PDT by mewzilla (Swing away, Mr. President, swing away!)
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To: Salman

PROVING BEYOND A DOUBT THAT “TEACHERS” SHOULD NEVER HAVE A UNION.


15 posted on 04/08/2025 1:06:53 PM PDT by ridesthemiles (not giving up on TRUMP---EVER)
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To: Salman

“Non-tenure track faculty at the small liberal arts college initially voted to unionize as the Wellesley Organized Academic Workers, or WOAW with the United Auto Workers, in January of last year.” . . .

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The WOAW? Negotiate with WOAW?

Paging Bill and Ted.


16 posted on 04/08/2025 2:20:38 PM PDT by Norski
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To: JME_FAN

...America is facing a critical shortage of fainting couches!


17 posted on 04/14/2025 5:42:31 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Salman

Whining
Old
Ass
Women


18 posted on 04/14/2025 5:44:11 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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