In a victory for some of the D.C. Metro Area’s lowest-paid professionals, Montgomery College’s adjunct faculty voted by a 365-105 margin in favor of representation by SEIU Local 500. We…
Union Busting
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…
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…
Getting to Know the Real Montgomery College
A reprint of a forthcoming Montgomery County Sentinel column by Wayne Goldstein. Montgomery College is in the news these days in some very unflattering ways. The first is because the…
In Part Three, we began examining the FAQ sheet that Montgomery College sent to its adjunct faculty to spread propaganda about unions. We demonstrated how the administration tried to make…
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…