Timothy Birdnow

My old alma mater is going to the dogs. Having invited students to participate in the Ferguson riots, then welcoming the Occupy SLU terrorists and promising to build a memorial to them (which they have yet to do although they did remove a statue of the founder of the Jesuit order in America to make space). Now they have provided a forum for the Service Empoloyees International Union (SEIU), the radical left-wing Obama-worshipping labor union.

According to the U News:

"On Wednesday, March 1, a group of citizens, students and faculty marched from the Clock Tower to DuBourg Hall hoping to send a message to the administration here at Saint Louis University to change how they treat their adjunct staff.

The march was coordinated by the Service Employees International Union Faculty Forward program that organized marches at universities across the country as part of its "Day of Action.” The march was in response to the recent appointment of Betsy DeVos, as well as other actions made by the current administration,"

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First, this is about unioinizing the adjunct faculty and not about trying to get a fair shake for them. Labor unions are dying because they ignored the Samuel Gompers admonition for unions to remain neutral on politics. American labor unions have morphed into European-style socialist entities in recent decades, forcibly taking union dues from their members to fund a radical agenda at odds with the beliefs of most of the members. And they have done little over the years to save jobs or protect workers. A classic example is the influx of illegal aliens, something the unions support because their political masters support it. Illegal aliens take union jobs, but the workers are expendable; what matters is the Progressive movement and the fundamental change that this influx will engender in America.

I was a member of the United Food and Commercial Workers union for 15 years. They were complicit in cheating me and the other people I worked with out of our pensions, so I have little love for the self-seeking scoundrels who run big labor.
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That said, one must ask what Betsey Devos or Donald Trump have to do with adjunct professors. Why are these adjuncts protesting Trump, who will likely make their jobs more secure by cutting back on the foreign competition and by improving the economy? Also, why are students joining the march when a unionized adjunct faculty will guarantee higher tuition? Of course, the adjuncts are signing their own death warrants; adjuncts are hired because they work cheap. They are the migrant labor force in academia. Yes, they are mistreated (I know because my brother has been one for years) but what benefit is derived if they are unemployed? My brother has lost many classes in recent years precisely because of this effort to "help" the adjuncts. Universities simply cut their classes.

Universities are no longer about learning; they have become cesspools of political and radical social revolution. I really don't know why anyone wastes tens to hundreds of thousands of dollars to have their children radicalized by these bow-tie revolutionaries.

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