[NOTE: one scholar cited here says that the number of tenured professors ballooned after World War II, when more Amerians, especially veterans, went to college, got advanced degrees and stayed on to teach. Today, student body numbers are falling, but grad schools keep churning out new PhDs. So there’s a glut, too many carrying … Continue reading Academic Tenure Will Soon Be Gone — Unless . . .
Labor action on both sides of the Atlantic CNBC — DEC 16 2022 Amazon workers will go on formal strike for the first time in the UK Ryan Browne KEY POINTS Employees at Amazon’s Coventry warehouse in central England voted Friday to go on strike. It will be the first legally mandated strike to take … Continue reading Breaking: Amazon & Starbucks Workers To Strike in the U. K. & U. S.
Labor Day Secrets: How I Found the Right Job In honor of Labor Day, here’s a first person report of someone who was not quite as successful as he had hoped to be in the job market: As a young man My first job was in an orange juice factory, but I couldn’t concentrate on the … Continue reading This One Weird Trick Will guarantee to Fully Empty Your Brain Before Labor Day Brunch — Try It NOW!
[NOTE: In a better USA (a prospect rapidly receding on many fronts), canceling student loan debt would be part of a much larger, far-reaching higher ed reform program: tackling rampant tuition (& grade) inflation, restoring decent job security to the huddled masses of adjunct faculty yearning to breathe free, and make the rent (preferably led … Continue reading Cancel [At Least Some] Student Loan Debt: YES!
