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2022-11-15 Economy

48,000 California academic workers strike for higher wages

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Posted by Besoeker 2022-11-15 02:52|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 All's not well at surfboard U.

Posted by Slavising Unineting5672 2022-11-15 07:20|| 2022-11-15 07:20|| Front Page Top

#2 Surprised that the UCal folks voted to have the UAW be their advocate union.

They are usually associated with making pollution-belching icky cars and stuff.

Posted by Mullah Richard 2022-11-15 07:32|| 2022-11-15 07:32|| Front Page Top

#3 Academia s full of PhDs earning sub minimum wages doing research and teaching

This while diversity administrators earn $150k plus.

Somehow the PhD s don’t get it

Posted by Lord garth 2022-11-15 07:59|| 2022-11-15 07:59|| Front Page Top

#4 May the strike go on and on.

Posted by Glenmore 2022-11-15 09:29|| 2022-11-15 09:29|| Front Page Top

#5 Somehow the PhD s don’t get it

"Some ideas are so stupid only an intellectual can embrace them."

- Eric Blair

Posted by M. Murcek 2022-11-15 09:56|| 2022-11-15 09:56|| Front Page Top

#6 “What, and leave academia?”

I remember a friend of my mother’s, whose hobby once the children were in school was getting a PhD in German literature in between housewifing and mothering, complaining that she was paid less than minimum wage as a part time instructor — net after driving an hour each way to the campus plus office hours, course planning, and grading.

Posted by trailing wife 2022-11-15 11:33|| 2022-11-15 11:33|| Front Page Top

#7 Living by your wits. Works better for criminals than for academics. Even with the greater risk involved.

Posted by M. Murcek 2022-11-15 11:37|| 2022-11-15 11:37|| Front Page Top

#8 academic workers

There's a new oxymoron to add to the list.

That's funny right there.

Posted by AlanC 2022-11-15 12:02|| 2022-11-15 12:02|| Front Page Top

#9 Sort of a Red on Red engagement.

Posted by Super Hose 2022-11-15 12:05|| 2022-11-15 12:05|| Front Page Top

#10 When my former supervisor moved to UCLA he offered me a new postdoc at 30% pay increase. It sounded like a good opportunity, but I looked at rental prices first. I had a family to feed. No way.

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