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ryanov t1_iv8wc3v wrote

Reply to comment by [deleted] in Where are all the office workers? by expressdefrost

Most people are convinced that this doesn’t matter anymore.

PSA?

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[deleted] t1_iv8xnyd wrote

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ryanov t1_iv8zq0c wrote

Yes, I know that. I am the president of a union. It’s not true that everybody who doesn’t have a reporting line is in a union. There are people all over the place who are not for some reason, and we are working on that, as that was less true at UMDNJ.

I didn’t catch that you were asking about a union name. We don’t have one called PSA though.

The power of a union is in its members. A surprisingly small percentage of people seem to think this is a big deal anymore. There are somewhat more people who don’t want to go to the office because they just don’t want to and have shown that they don’t need to. Then there are others that are psyched “to see everyone’s face again.”

It’s hard to build a movement around safety when there don’t seem to be that many people that think there’s an actual safety problem.

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ryanov t1_iv91rg2 wrote

No one manager or above is in a union at Rutgers. UMDNJ (and now the former UMDNJ parts of Rutgers and UH) had supervisors in CWA. Rutgers has sort of the middle in an AFT union called “Union of Rutgers Administrators.” Some AFSCME too. Professionals and Nurses on the legacy-UMDNJ side of Rutgers (and increasingly the legacy Rutgers side too) are in my union (HPAE) and the non-clerical and housekeeping, etc., jobs are Teamsters. We also have OPEIU. There are also two different AAUP unions for the two legacy schools, and one for adjunct faculty.

You at NJIT?

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