wickedflea | stupid job/union shit (Reply)

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.