The student's should also take the principal to small claims court
and sue for a portion or all of their fees because they entered into
a contract with school and the principal has breached that contract.
They have been denied the classes for which they paid due to the
action of the principal.
R. Rogoway
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Jul 27, 2007, at 9:22 AM, Michael Scoles wrote:
And I though such indignities only happened on this side of the
border!
Michael T. Scoles, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Psychology & Counseling
University of Central Arkansas
Conway, AR 72035
501-450-5418
>>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 7/27/2007 7:39 AM >>>
On 27 Jul 2007 at 6:28, Robert Wildblood wrote:
> Inside Higher Education reported today:
>
> Bishop´s University, in Quebec, on Thursday locked all unionized
> employees off the campus, and suspended summer courses and programs.
> University officials told The Montreal Gazette that they believed
the
> step would move contract negotiations forward. The talks have been
> stalled by disputes on pensions, among other issues. Union officials
> said that the lockout was not necessary and was hurting students.
>
> Any inside information about this issue, eh?
Now that I'm retired, I'm not inside any more but I'll give it a try
anyway.
The chickens have come home to roost ever since we hired our new
principal a few years ago, the last choice of the faculty and one we
never trusted. We tried to block his appointment, failed, and a no-
confidence motion we passed was ignored.
He showed his style immediately on arriving at Bishop's by firing the
director of computing without warning or explanation. We still
don't know
why he did it. And things went downhill from there. The approach is to
act but never consult, at a university where one of the things we're
proudest of is our collegiality.
The non-faculty maintenance staff (a separate brach of our combined
union) struck first, as a result of a failed attempt to negotiate
their
first collective agreement with a hostile adminstration. Meanwhile,
negotiations on the collective agreement for faculty went nowhere.
The adminstration thought it would help negotiations by locking us all
out--faculty and librarians too. They're claiming a financial crisis
which requires arbitrary firing and cutbacks in all segments of the
university except administration, where senior administrators are
doing
such a good job they've just received salary increases. Oh yes, and
new
artificial turf for the football field.
We don't think the financial problem is as bad as they claim, and
suspect
it's just a pretext to trash all the hard-won gains we've made in
working
conditions and pensions by trading them over the years for things the
administration wanted. Weaking the pension plan appears to be one of
their prime objectives.
As for me, I'm no longer a member of the bargaining unit. Yet they've
cancelled the cost-of-living increase I'm guaranteed by the collective
agreement and pension plan, on the basis of which I agreed to
retire. How
about that, eh? Their heavy hand reaches out to break an agreement
they
made with pensioners, who are no longer even one of the parties
subject
to this dispute. Like the students whose classes they cancelled.
I'm taking them to small claims court. Really.
Stephen
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