+1! While in Silicon Valley, I asked about a Union for tech folks because we have a high turnover rate .. we find interesting jobs or start startups. My argument wasn't pay scale, striking, or that sort of thing .. but just a professional organization that would help centralize benefits and so on. A middleman. Didn't happen.
But this has traction, I think .. Occupy the Academy! -- Owen On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 1:29 AM, Greg Sonnenfeld <gsonn...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm wondering if anyone has created an academic authors union to put > pressure on the publishers? If authors were to publish under a union, > and allow the union to set publisher restrictions, it would give them > a great deal of negotiation ability. Self publishing would be one > option, but securing better contracts through current publishers would > also be an option. > > **************************** > Greg Sonnenfeld > > “The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be > sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.”
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