Published in the September 25, 2014 Santa Maria Times. The Santa Maria Valley Union Picnic and Celebration of Sept. 1 was an amazing success, far surpassing the expectations of its organizers. On Aug. 29, I wrote that a new Labor Day tradition would be starting in Santa Maria. Thanks to the efforts of the Part-Time […]
Read More →Published in the September 12, 2014 Noozhawk. “A C is acceptable college work,” a professor told me many years ago, when I was a first-year undergraduate. He went on to say that a B was considered above average, and an A was reserved for truly exceptional efforts. He gave few Bs and fewer As. A […]
Read More →Published in the August 29, 2014 Noozhawk. The American system of higher education is widely regarded as the world’s best. More than half of the top 100 universities in the world are American. In 2013, Fareed Zakaria proclaimed in Time magazine that American higher education is “the envy of the world.” But beneath the congratulatory […]
Read More →On September 1 the Part-Time Faculty Association, working in collaboration with the United Domestic Workers Local 3930, the United Food and Commercial Workers Local 770, Laborers Local 220, the Tri Counties Central Labor Council and the Service Employees International Union Local 721, will be hosting the First Annual Santa Maria Valley Union Picnic. The event […]
Read More →Published in the August 21, 2014 Santa Maria Times. In Greek mythology, the Phoenix is a great bird that rises from the dead. Even when consumed by fire, the Phoenix emerges from the ashes to live again. Unions, like the Phoenix, are rising again, rising from the ashes of near-extinction and unrelenting assault by corporate […]
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