{"id":1223,"date":"2005-03-26T07:43:00","date_gmt":"2005-03-26T13:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/?p=1223"},"modified":"2005-03-26T07:43:00","modified_gmt":"2005-03-26T13:43:00","slug":"what-a-load-of-horseshit-anti-union-email","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/?p=1223","title":{"rendered":"What a load of horseshit: anti-union email"},"content":{"rendered":"

The relationship between a graduate student and their faculty mentor
\nrepresents a very personal and dynamic partnership. The imparting of
\nknowledge and experience combined with support for and encouragement of
\ncreativity and individuality are fundamental contributions of the
\nsuccessful mentor. For their part, successful graduate students
\nultimately provide new insights, challenge conventional thinking, and
\nextend a mentor’s perspective and experience. Because of the
\ninterdependence between mentor and student, their relationship is of
\nnecessity very personal and highly individualized. Success of such close
\npersonal interactions is predicated on accessibility, open-mindedness,
\nmutual respect, honesty, and trust between these two individuals. In my
\nexperience no two students have been alike. Hence, my relationship with
\neach of my students has been unique to them. Insertion of
\nintermediaries, surrogates, or union representatives is incompatible
\nwith the essential one-to-one nature of mentor – graduate student
\nrelationships. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yeah, a personal and dynamic partnership with set wage rates and benefit schedules brought to us courtesy the university administration. They’re already inserting themselves as intermediaries in that “essential one-to-one” relationship. They just want to maintain their monopoly. Good gods, that explanation takes me from mildly to ambivalently in favor of unionization to strongly in favor. Doublespeaking weasels.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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