“It’s union busting. To have clear and direct language in a collective bargaining agreement, a precedent that has been followed for ten years, and then to cast it aside and say, ‘We don’t follow that. We don’t need to have this conversation with the union.”
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Restructuring the Conversation: Richard Bernstein on The New School Layoffs
“For six months now, they’ve been talking to us about restructuring. There’s now a task force about this, but no one has a concrete idea of what that restructuring means. All you have to work on is rumors, and that’s terrible […] No faculty member has a clue about what this concretely means and when it’s going to happen. And that, I know, has caused enormous anger and frustration.”