Exploding brain: we can across the aisle bi partisan all agree that we would make an exception for political outcomes we don't want for our enemies : Left wing union bust the police Right wing unionize college admin and jornos
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destroys higher education and journalism
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or at least makes things harder for them
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journalism would muddle along because it's not like they need to do anything anyway; unionized college administration would negotiate seven and eight figure salaries with themselves, balloon tuition to even more obscene levels and blow up the whole shell game
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i dont know how it would work re adjunct professors who dont get payed very well rn admin i think would be mostly the same
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im thinking once they unionize they will go on strike randomly and be disruptive and performative and wont be able to recover
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oh my god a journalists' strike would be amazing, like that time the NYPD went on strike and everyone was like "wow this is... better"
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do unions work for intellectual labor professions? collective bargaining, to a large degree, depends on the fungibility of workers doesn't it? (I know what we all think of the intellect of journos and admins, just work with me here)
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there isn't a lawyer's union or a doctor's union or a programmer's union and there are big compensation differences between individuals in these professions but that's not perceived as a problem
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there are teachers unions tho
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yes, but the education system was actually designed to be akin to an industrial assembly line for students and the teachers were always conceived of as fungible components. this is the Prussian system after all.
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college is still an education system even if it has a diff history
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the fact that the college system has been reconstructed to be essentially grades 13-16 is really at the root fo the institutional collapse that is happening right now. the university is supposed to be completely different than industrial assembly line education.
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