In Part One, we reported on County Council Member and Management and Fiscal Policy Chairwoman Duchy Trachtenberg’s letter to public employee union MCGEO offering a choice between layoffs and COLA…
SEIU Local 500
Regular readers will recall how Montgomery College told its adjunct professors that they were “not public employees” in order to avoid allowing them a union election. Now the college is…
Last Pre-Election County D4 Round-Up
By tomorrow night, this race will be over. Here’s the state of play one day out.On press, coverage has picked up in the last week. The Post has written its…
More Union Busting at Montgomery College
I’ve seen quite a few union-busting tactics in my time but the latest one used by Montgomery College against its adjunct professors ranks as one of the most creative.A couple…
County Council District 4 Round-Up
OK everybody, with less than two weeks to go, here’s the latest.1. The Prince George’s County Council District 5 special election has MoCo campaign operatives’ tongues wagging. In that seven-candidate…
When Montgomery College administrators sent a memo to adjunct faculty warning them against joining SEIU Local 500, they attached a document called “Typical Questions That Are Asked During a Union…
On March 3, Mary Kay Shartle-Galotto, Executive Vice-President for Academic and Student Services and Marshall Moore, Vice-President for Administrative and Fiscal Services sent a memo warning adjunct faculty not to…
Management calls them “union avoidance consultants.” Labor people call them “union busters.” But whatever term you use for them, you can count on them showing up whenever workers dare to…