Grinnell Wants to Break Up Student Bargaining Unit --Inside Higher Ed Article

IzzysMom
Fri, 07 Dec 2018 20:19:28 +0000

Think the college did a good job explaining why expanding the union for more educationally based jobs on campus is problematic and detrimental to these excellent experiential experiences (that just happen to be paid for!) GC is hardly non-union… there was no opposition when Dining Hall employees organized a few years ago. And, I seem to recall reading that the school offered forming a committee of stakeholders to discuss employment issues each year (wage rates, training, safety, scheduling, etc.) so would seem like that would have been worth trying out for a few years. Only half the student employees voted, so I’d hardly call the vote a landslide either. No union buster here (I worked over 25 years designing/building union retirement plans), just think the college is right in this situation.