A recipe for obstructing the process

A small group of individuals, via a grassroots effort, campaigned for
representation by the AAUP. By the slimmest of margins, that effort
was successful via elections conducting by and in accord with the
rules of the State Labor Board. That very group, realizing
that they have no special or legal standing in terms of representing
the AAUP chapter, called a series of "next steps" meetings in an
effort to involve as many faculty as possible in the necessary tasks
of drafting a constitution and electing representatives. This is, in
essence, a bootstrapping effort to elect a set of representatives.

Now, how would one go about obstructing and frustrating this
process? Well, one would start by rejecting even the notion of
having a meeting, complaining about the time, and attempting to form
a splinter group to work across the purposes. Throw in a few rumors
and falsehoods and that would be your best shot at making sure the
faculty would not come together to work constructively within
the rubric of collective bargaining that is now "the law of the land."

Jason Ryan, have you no shame?

Les Bernstein
MC-3401
Department of Neuroscience
University of Connecticut Health Center
263 Farmington Avenue
Farmington, CT 06030

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