"For eleven months, I have tried to spur them to listen, care, and take action, but they consider my questions harassment; the strategy they finally said was, 'If you are fired, we will grieve it, shut up and go away.'"
Now I know why so many school boards "suspend teachers pending an investigation" -- if they fired the teacher outright, then the union would be forced to get involved, and neither the boards nor the unions want that -- it would mean less time at Pro-Hamas rallies. This way, the teacher/instructor is effectively eliminated and no one has to do anything; it's all perfectly anonymous and opaque, and there is no recourse.
Depressing. Do we need to form a meta-union whose job it is to convince the union to do its job of representing us?! Am I imagining it, or are our unions now the pigs at the dinner table in the gut-wrenching closing scene of Orwell's "Animal Farm"?
"For eleven months, I have tried to spur them to listen, care, and take action, but they consider my questions harassment; the strategy they finally said was, 'If you are fired, we will grieve it, shut up and go away.'"
Now I know why so many school boards "suspend teachers pending an investigation" -- if they fired the teacher outright, then the union would be forced to get involved, and neither the boards nor the unions want that -- it would mean less time at Pro-Hamas rallies. This way, the teacher/instructor is effectively eliminated and no one has to do anything; it's all perfectly anonymous and opaque, and there is no recourse.
Depressing. Do we need to form a meta-union whose job it is to convince the union to do its job of representing us?! Am I imagining it, or are our unions now the pigs at the dinner table in the gut-wrenching closing scene of Orwell's "Animal Farm"?