I did the morning shift in the pickets lines. There were way more people than I expected in the rain. The strikers had presence at every single entrance to campus. I was in a pretty large group across from one of the parking garages. The press started showing up (both local and National) around noon. And there were way more strikers showing up as I left. #CFA#strike#FuckNeoliberalEducation
I'm on #strike along with the rest of #CFA because the #CalState would rather underpay faculty and raise tuition while sitting on a pile of cash and overpaying admin. #Solidarity
"Faculty Working Conditions Are Student Learning Conditions"
"Like many [California State University] campuses, CSUSB ranks among the nation’s top universities for social mobility. Nearly 80% of our undergraduates are first-generation college students, 77% are underrepresented minorities (including 69% Hispanic students), and more than half receive Pell Grants, which are for low-income students."
Guess what the first thing will be that I'll do as a university lecturer next week!
... I'm going on strike! 😅✊🏼
I still find myself giggling that I went back to work in the ivory tower, joined a union, and now am striking - the conservatives were right! It's all just pinko commies! 😱🤣
Seriously though, I am 36 and this is the first time I've ever been eligible to join a union. And I am proud to get to participate and be a part of the labor movement fully. Also, I love that the majority of the CFA's demands are actually about equity and students' well-being: we are demanding safe and equitable bathroom access for trans folks and lactation stations for people who breastfeed, that they hire more counselors so that there are more than 1 counselor to every 1600 students (seriously, ugh), and that the union be involved to mediate between faculty and police to protect BIPOC and other vulnerable faculty.
First #strike in 12 years for #California Faculty Association: "I think what is happening now is just not about the #CFA. It is the #labor movement in general"
The #CalState is raising #tuition, but of course they're not offering any pay raise for faculty. lol Just another day in a country that doesn't respect educators. Anyway, rallies are inevitable, and a strike is possible.
#Harvard 📆 October 11, 2022 : Some spaghettified material occasionally gets flung out back into #space 🌌. #Astronomers liken it to #BlackHoles ⚫ being messy eaters — not everything they try to consume makes it into their mouths.
But the emission, known as an outflow, normally develops quickly after a #TDE occurs — not years later.