Mt. Hood Community College Appears to Have Avoided a Bitter Faculty Strike

May 11, 2011, 2:17 pm

Officials at Mt. Hood Community College have reached a tentative agreement with its full-time faculty members’ union on a three-year contract, likely avoiding a bitter strike. Members of the union—the Mt. Hood Community College Full Time Faculty Association—voted to ratify the agreement on Tuesday, and the governing board of the Oregon public college is expected to formally approve the agreement later today. Negotiations over the contract had dragged on for more than a year, and the college had responded to the union’s preparations for a strike by threatening to replace any faculty members who walked off the job. A statement issued by the union today said it had made concessions regarding faculty contributions to health insurance and pay for summer teaching, while winning cost-of-living increases and staving off proposed contract language that would have allowed the administration to subcontract faculty work without bargaining with the union.

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rightwingprofessor

“like correlation ain’t causation and maybe the strong correlation between wealth, whiteness, and marriage might influence why married people are happier than the rest of us?” Why don’t you take the time to look at the study and see if these things were controlled for before writing it off due to these “obvious criticisms”.
newsoffice

“Perhaps those who are monogamous are not just liklier to have more social privilege than most Americans, but also to not ask difficult questions about themselves or the world around them? ..And yet this satisfaction is surely not the same thing as a life worth living since it shuts down all the other, more interesting and, yes, depressing lines of inquiry that might in fact make us less satisfied, more engaged with the world around us,

Fascinating! I find the exact opposite is often the case. 1) Monogmy is difficult, far, far more difficult than the alternative, not easier. Being single and dating around is incredibly easy – anyone can do that. You have made a fundmanetal error here in thinking that monogomous people are not engaging the “hard” questions of life. Actually, they engage them a good deal more and their lives require far greater demands than the lives of the unattached. They simply make a decision for monogamy. This often involves intellectual thought, spiritual engagement, as well as existential thought around both the meaning of life and what it means to lead a meaningful life.

Here is one thing monogomy does: if you decide to commit to one relationship — even though it is very difficult it also frees up your time and your mind. You don’t have to worry about meeting people, finding someone (everyone who is single is always desperatly trying to date – the burning questions they are usually is asking is – do you know someone who is divorced or single?)

The hardest things in life — whether it is monogomy or writing your dissertation — are always what make people “happy.” The easy way leads to emptiness.
archman

Is this the tacky place that spammed out employment ads a few weeks ago as a threat tactic?
http://twitter.com/RealMHCCInfo Teaching@MHCC

Yes, this is the place that spammed out employment ads as a threat tactic. And the use of intimidation tactics didn’t stop there. The Dean of Allied Health, Dr. Donna Larson, actually interviewed replacement faculty on her speaker phone, with her office door open to the department lobby.

Sad, and the college will take a long time to gain reconciliation.
squiddude

As an Oregonian transplanted to the Midwest, I was embarrassed by the tactics of MCHH administration. Here’s to the MCHH faculty!
petekleff1

I have been a college instructor for over three decades. To me it is an honorable profession, following in the footsteps of Socrates. With due respects to the faculty at Mt. Hood Community College, being “represented” by a union is itself demeaning to the profession.