Interchanges: Solidarity Forever--Why TA Unions Are Good for Writing Programs

Autor/in	Bernard-Donals, Michael
Titel	Interchanges: Solidarity Forever--Why TA Unions Are Good for Writing Programs
Quelle	In: College Composition and Communication, 61 (2009) 2, (15 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0010-096X
Schlagwörter	Stellungnahme; Graduate Students; Unions; Teaching Assistants; Graduate Study; College Administration; Writing (Composition); Writing Instruction; Writing Teachers; College Instruction; Higher Education; Employer Employee Relationship; Quality of Working Life; Work Environment; Compensation (Remuneration); Teacher Rights; Salary Wage Differentials; Wisconsin + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Graduate Study; Student; Students; Aufbaustudium; Graduiertenstudium; Hauptstudium; Studentin; College administrators; Hochschulverwaltung; Schreibübung; Schreibunterricht; Hochschullehre; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Arbeitsqualität; Arbeitsmilieu; Abfindung; Kompensation; Lohnausgleich
Abstract	In this essay, the author explains how teaching assistant (TA) unions work to the benefit not only of the graduate students who are their members but also of the writing programs that employ them. While university administrations understand unions to be bothersome at best and forces of evil at their worst, unions are essential to the maintenance of equitable work rules and the resolution of disparities in the workplace by an otherwise largely powerless and exploited workforce. It's the transparency enforced by the union--making plain the working relationship between employer (the WPA) and the employee (the TA), the insistence upon training and professional development opportunities, and the mutually agreed-upon mechanism for resolving grievances--that serves as the most valuable contribution of the unions, and not (only) their insistence upon a living wage and a distribution of health benefits. (Contains 12 resources.) (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10