New comment on your post #1591 "Bard College terminates Joel Kovel" Author : Chris Townsend
I led the organization/unionization of the service staff workers at Bard College more than 20 years ago. The workforce had suffered for decades in a captive company union, set up and run by Bard. From the time we started organizing until the day we triumphed we were witness to every despicable tactic imaginable by the college. Countless bogus NLRB delaying tactics, attempted terrorization and alternate bribery of workers, surface bargaining, you name it. We finally shoved Mr. Botstein off-balance by revealing our intent to publish an ad in the NYTimes revealing the fact that he was a member of the American Federation of Musicians (at least back then) and that, among other things, his college paid women "cleaners" one dollar per hour less than male "janitors" for the same work. He seemed concerned enough about it to order his underlings to settle a union contract with us. I never had much faith or trust in liberals, and nothing I experienced with the Bard management changed my mind.
Good luck in your struggle, Joel! _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
