stupid job/union shit

[wickedflea]

God fucking damn. We're going on strike starting March 1. So I hear from the managerial/professional folks around the press, anyway. (I'm a clerical/technical type, which I shouldn't be, but that's another story.) They got an email from the university administration's labor guy saying that the union had served notice of the strike. But none of the people who will actually be striking have been officially notified by the union. Typical. I'm so fucking pissed off about this I can't see straight. I don't know if it's this way university-wide (I kinda doubt it), but here's how it is at the press: The union doesn't tell us shit. We're so detached from the rest of the university that apparently they feel it's OK to keep us in the dark. And our in-house steward (union rep) . . . I haven't even fucking SEEN her ass since before Christmas! I don't even know if she still works here! And when I did see her I never saw her do anything union-wise except occasionally bring around some sort of petition and expect me to sign it and check off the "I WILL BE ARRESTED" box. We certainly haven't had any meetings or anything. I'm seriously considering not participating in this strike. I've talked to a couple of the acquisitions editorial assistants, and they feel the same way I do. I can't afford to lose the pay, and I certainly can't afford to let the work stack up any higher on my desk. I don't know what the rest of the C&Ts across the university do, but I have goddamn work to do, and it's not just processing forms--it's ongoing projects that I can't just hand off to anyone else. COCKSUCKIN'DOGFUCKIN'ASSRAPIN'STUPIDMOTHERFUCKER.

Strike, my ass. FUCK THAT.

Comments

[buscemi.livejournal.com]

If any of the union folks give you shit, just put snakes all up in it. :)

[wickedflea.livejournal.com]

That, sir, is a damned good idea!

[lunchboxface.livejournal.com]

Although unions were at one point necessary to insure worker's rights, I am of the opinion that most of them need to be dissolved. They are basically just a labor monopoly, driving wages higher and job opportunities lower, especially noteworthy in this economy with unemployment being what it is. So I say, FUCK your union.

Do you think they would fuck with you if you didn't strike though? Does that mean immediate expulsion? Will your wage go down or some such crazy shit? Will they pull some Godfather-type terrorism and put a horse head in your trousers or something? will they massage your nutsack? cause that would feel GOOD buddy YEAH! SCRITCHETY-SCRITCHETY SCRATCH

[wickedflea.livejournal.com]

Dude, that's what this is all about--the scritchety-scritchety scratch. If these suckers can't get me no mo' money, then they DESERVE to give me some nutsack love.

But seriously, I've never paid enough attention to unions to know what I think about them. I guess I'm in support of them in general, but you've got a point about them becoming their own sort of Establishment. And I won't get into all the issues, but one of the big points of contention leading to this strike is the union trying to build its numbers by getting graduate-student teaching assistants into the mix--regardless of how much it fucks over the full-time employees.

I don't think there's really anything they could do if I didn't strike. Besides, like, breaking my kneecaps and killing my family members. Which, come to think of it, they might do--this is the Northeast, after all.