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What if we just, call the employer up! We’ll tell them we’re replacing the tenure system with one that’s better for all workers, and concede nothing! Yay!!
Tell everyone what that system looks like, at least
Tell everyone what that system looks like, at least
January 12, 2026 at 6:31 PM
What if we just, call the employer up! We’ll tell them we’re replacing the tenure system with one that’s better for all workers, and concede nothing! Yay!!
Tell everyone what that system looks like, at least
Tell everyone what that system looks like, at least
The “replacement” [concessions] should be initiated by the union on their terms …
If it were only as simple as a bargaining agent setting the terms and *POOF* something better exists!!
Have you sat at a bargaining table? Walked a picket line for weeks, months?
If it were only as simple as a bargaining agent setting the terms and *POOF* something better exists!!
Have you sat at a bargaining table? Walked a picket line for weeks, months?
January 12, 2026 at 6:29 PM
The “replacement” [concessions] should be initiated by the union on their terms …
If it were only as simple as a bargaining agent setting the terms and *POOF* something better exists!!
Have you sat at a bargaining table? Walked a picket line for weeks, months?
If it were only as simple as a bargaining agent setting the terms and *POOF* something better exists!!
Have you sat at a bargaining table? Walked a picket line for weeks, months?
Not claiming they’re corrosive to a lesser degree, I’m claiming they’re MORE corrosive in non-academic unions
Tenure itself has contributed to shielding all academic workers from much worse two-tiered conditions the rest of us face, not just security, but pay, benefits, protection from reprisal
Tenure itself has contributed to shielding all academic workers from much worse two-tiered conditions the rest of us face, not just security, but pay, benefits, protection from reprisal
January 12, 2026 at 6:09 PM
Not claiming they’re corrosive to a lesser degree, I’m claiming they’re MORE corrosive in non-academic unions
Tenure itself has contributed to shielding all academic workers from much worse two-tiered conditions the rest of us face, not just security, but pay, benefits, protection from reprisal
Tenure itself has contributed to shielding all academic workers from much worse two-tiered conditions the rest of us face, not just security, but pay, benefits, protection from reprisal
But there is not absolute vulnerability like you’re claiming, notably at institutions where academic workers are unionized.
Academic freedom for non-tenure workers exists, priority appointment clauses for these workers exist.
Poor organizing is to blame for lack of solidarity, not tenure
Academic freedom for non-tenure workers exists, priority appointment clauses for these workers exist.
Poor organizing is to blame for lack of solidarity, not tenure
January 12, 2026 at 6:05 PM
But there is not absolute vulnerability like you’re claiming, notably at institutions where academic workers are unionized.
Academic freedom for non-tenure workers exists, priority appointment clauses for these workers exist.
Poor organizing is to blame for lack of solidarity, not tenure
Academic freedom for non-tenure workers exists, priority appointment clauses for these workers exist.
Poor organizing is to blame for lack of solidarity, not tenure
Just go look at any union’s comment section when they post about international worker’s issues.
The relative comfort of unionized workers w good CBAs is regularly a barrier to labour organizing with non-unionized workers.
The relative comfort of unionized workers w good CBAs is regularly a barrier to labour organizing with non-unionized workers.
January 12, 2026 at 5:56 PM
Just go look at any union’s comment section when they post about international worker’s issues.
The relative comfort of unionized workers w good CBAs is regularly a barrier to labour organizing with non-unionized workers.
The relative comfort of unionized workers w good CBAs is regularly a barrier to labour organizing with non-unionized workers.
No it’s just following the logical end point of your argument.
Have you ever been a member of a non academic union? It’s extremely common for members to push back against any efforts that lend organizing power for non-members, workers at large.
Have you ever been a member of a non academic union? It’s extremely common for members to push back against any efforts that lend organizing power for non-members, workers at large.
January 12, 2026 at 5:54 PM
No it’s just following the logical end point of your argument.
Have you ever been a member of a non academic union? It’s extremely common for members to push back against any efforts that lend organizing power for non-members, workers at large.
Have you ever been a member of a non academic union? It’s extremely common for members to push back against any efforts that lend organizing power for non-members, workers at large.
+ the idea that CBA (w no tenure) would resolve issues of senior BU members undermining collective power is laughable. BUs are FILLED with contract workers who permanent members are willing to throw under the bus, & most will not lend any power to improve security or conditions of contract workers
January 12, 2026 at 5:18 PM
+ the idea that CBA (w no tenure) would resolve issues of senior BU members undermining collective power is laughable. BUs are FILLED with contract workers who permanent members are willing to throw under the bus, & most will not lend any power to improve security or conditions of contract workers
Two tier bargaining is an issue that impacts ALL labour unions and undermines solidarity But concession bargaining (which it seems like you’re suggesting by voluntarily eliminating tenure in favour of CBAs, rather than organize for expansion of tenure AND unionization) is never the answer.
January 12, 2026 at 5:16 PM
Two tier bargaining is an issue that impacts ALL labour unions and undermines solidarity But concession bargaining (which it seems like you’re suggesting by voluntarily eliminating tenure in favour of CBAs, rather than organize for expansion of tenure AND unionization) is never the answer.
Most CBAs for contingent academic employees have clauses re: academic freedom + unjust discipline & discharge, no?
And most non-academic CBAs still include a probationary period, akin to TT. Would you also suggest that seniority clauses undermine bargaining power within a BU?
And most non-academic CBAs still include a probationary period, akin to TT. Would you also suggest that seniority clauses undermine bargaining power within a BU?
January 12, 2026 at 5:15 PM
Most CBAs for contingent academic employees have clauses re: academic freedom + unjust discipline & discharge, no?
And most non-academic CBAs still include a probationary period, akin to TT. Would you also suggest that seniority clauses undermine bargaining power within a BU?
And most non-academic CBAs still include a probationary period, akin to TT. Would you also suggest that seniority clauses undermine bargaining power within a BU?
By this logic, why not eliminate CBAs bc they undermine all worker solidarity? Do CBAs enable unionized workers to feel secure, sit back and not fight for all other worker’s rights, like you’re proposing tenure inherently does?
January 12, 2026 at 5:11 PM
By this logic, why not eliminate CBAs bc they undermine all worker solidarity? Do CBAs enable unionized workers to feel secure, sit back and not fight for all other worker’s rights, like you’re proposing tenure inherently does?
academics seem to be, for all the theoretical protection + flexibility tenure provides them as workers relative to the rest of us.)
January 11, 2026 at 11:33 PM
academics seem to be, for all the theoretical protection + flexibility tenure provides them as workers relative to the rest of us.)
W members who were contract and individually gained nothing from bargaining. Hard to see how eliminating tenure to replace w CBAs would resolve multi-tiered labour issues that aren’t unique to academia.
(I say this as a non-academic that complains often how lazy + self interested many tenured
(I say this as a non-academic that complains often how lazy + self interested many tenured
January 11, 2026 at 11:32 PM
W members who were contract and individually gained nothing from bargaining. Hard to see how eliminating tenure to replace w CBAs would resolve multi-tiered labour issues that aren’t unique to academia.
(I say this as a non-academic that complains often how lazy + self interested many tenured
(I say this as a non-academic that complains often how lazy + self interested many tenured
Genuinely curious if you’re envisioning something different than in non-academic labour unions, where two-tiered bargaining has been a spreading cancer for 40ish years?
Every union I’ve been in has had multi-tiers of contract workers and/or lesser benefits.
Been on strike multiple times w …
Every union I’ve been in has had multi-tiers of contract workers and/or lesser benefits.
Been on strike multiple times w …
January 11, 2026 at 11:23 PM
Genuinely curious if you’re envisioning something different than in non-academic labour unions, where two-tiered bargaining has been a spreading cancer for 40ish years?
Every union I’ve been in has had multi-tiers of contract workers and/or lesser benefits.
Been on strike multiple times w …
Every union I’ve been in has had multi-tiers of contract workers and/or lesser benefits.
Been on strike multiple times w …
Another strike, different employer, picketed with contract workers (w the exact same job, pay, etc. as my own) whose contracts expired during the strike.
Would still love something like tenure to (even imperfectly) protect against reprisals for speech my employers do not like.
Would still love something like tenure to (even imperfectly) protect against reprisals for speech my employers do not like.
January 11, 2026 at 10:52 PM
Another strike, different employer, picketed with contract workers (w the exact same job, pay, etc. as my own) whose contracts expired during the strike.
Would still love something like tenure to (even imperfectly) protect against reprisals for speech my employers do not like.
Would still love something like tenure to (even imperfectly) protect against reprisals for speech my employers do not like.
A CBA without tenure isn’t going to save this guy from the two-tier-bullshit. I walked a picket line for 2 months last year w a woman who told anyone that would listen how the strike was screwing up her best-60-months leading up to retirement, so there was nothing in it for her.
January 11, 2026 at 10:46 PM
A CBA without tenure isn’t going to save this guy from the two-tier-bullshit. I walked a picket line for 2 months last year w a woman who told anyone that would listen how the strike was screwing up her best-60-months leading up to retirement, so there was nothing in it for her.
Not to do an “As a…” or oversimplify the threat of adjudification within academia but uh, as a very-non-academic unionized worker, do academics realize the cancer that is two-tiered-bargaining has been spreading for approx 40 years?
January 11, 2026 at 10:39 PM
Not to do an “As a…” or oversimplify the threat of adjudification within academia but uh, as a very-non-academic unionized worker, do academics realize the cancer that is two-tiered-bargaining has been spreading for approx 40 years?
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January 9, 2026 at 8:17 PM
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As an aside, I really hate the Canada is/can be a beacon of freedom frame that explicitly masks its own settler colonial history but also its ongoing complicity as a feeder state to the imperial core
January 10, 2026 at 6:32 PM
As an aside, I really hate the Canada is/can be a beacon of freedom frame that explicitly masks its own settler colonial history but also its ongoing complicity as a feeder state to the imperial core
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He probably thinks “American Woman” was about a bad one night stand in Sheboygan. Probably never heard the one about LBJ ripping Lester Pearson a new one for “pissing on my carpet” by making an anti-Vietnam War speech in Philly. Is unaware of the hackneyed phrase “elbows up” that got a PM elected.
January 10, 2026 at 7:14 PM
He probably thinks “American Woman” was about a bad one night stand in Sheboygan. Probably never heard the one about LBJ ripping Lester Pearson a new one for “pissing on my carpet” by making an anti-Vietnam War speech in Philly. Is unaware of the hackneyed phrase “elbows up” that got a PM elected.
This kind of Toronto(elite)centric, patronizing shit from a U of T professor is too much for me, an old girl from Oshawa.
My parents didn’t have fancy philosophy degrees, but they did teach me to recognize American chauvinism when I see it.
My parents didn’t have fancy philosophy degrees, but they did teach me to recognize American chauvinism when I see it.
January 10, 2026 at 8:38 PM
This kind of Toronto(elite)centric, patronizing shit from a U of T professor is too much for me, an old girl from Oshawa.
My parents didn’t have fancy philosophy degrees, but they did teach me to recognize American chauvinism when I see it.
My parents didn’t have fancy philosophy degrees, but they did teach me to recognize American chauvinism when I see it.
I see your video, and I raise you :
“My toddler’s nanny must be educated with at LEAST a BFA. I’m a philosophy professor for God sake!”
blogs.baruch.cuny.edu/jrn3510f12h/...
“My toddler’s nanny must be educated with at LEAST a BFA. I’m a philosophy professor for God sake!”
blogs.baruch.cuny.edu/jrn3510f12h/...
The Changing Face of the New York Nanny – City News
blogs.baruch.cuny.edu
January 10, 2026 at 7:20 PM
I see your video, and I raise you :
“My toddler’s nanny must be educated with at LEAST a BFA. I’m a philosophy professor for God sake!”
blogs.baruch.cuny.edu/jrn3510f12h/...
“My toddler’s nanny must be educated with at LEAST a BFA. I’m a philosophy professor for God sake!”
blogs.baruch.cuny.edu/jrn3510f12h/...
“We just HATE supporting Florida’s economy, but we can’t keep the kids away from their grandparents for half the year!!”
January 10, 2026 at 7:01 PM
“We just HATE supporting Florida’s economy, but we can’t keep the kids away from their grandparents for half the year!!”
Convos I imagine this guy having @ a welcome party Munk threw him, leading to this conclusion:
*joking about spending $$,$$$ / year on youth hockey* “We’re banking on [kid] playing for Cornell!”
“We’d love for him to go to Ivey.” (misunderstands Ivey @ Western to mean the Ivies)
*joking about spending $$,$$$ / year on youth hockey* “We’re banking on [kid] playing for Cornell!”
“We’d love for him to go to Ivey.” (misunderstands Ivey @ Western to mean the Ivies)
January 10, 2026 at 7:01 PM
Convos I imagine this guy having @ a welcome party Munk threw him, leading to this conclusion:
*joking about spending $$,$$$ / year on youth hockey* “We’re banking on [kid] playing for Cornell!”
“We’d love for him to go to Ivey.” (misunderstands Ivey @ Western to mean the Ivies)
*joking about spending $$,$$$ / year on youth hockey* “We’re banking on [kid] playing for Cornell!”
“We’d love for him to go to Ivey.” (misunderstands Ivey @ Western to mean the Ivies)