LETTERS
College Teachers' Union Editor: May I make a few corrective comments on our UFCT member Murray Hausknecht's analysis of the City University collective bargaining election? 1. The...
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...It seeks to restructure colleges and universities along more humane and democratic lines...
...The UFCT's struggles at St...
...Does one serve the Democratic Left by singlingout a man whose ambition led him to endorse American policy in Southeast Asia, not grudgingly but with famous ebullience...
...When will those who made the LID decision learn a simple lesson: that the strength of coalition depends partly on deference to other people's opinions when the matters at issue are not related to vital values or policies...
...A person may be a productive scholar and an excellent teacher and still be denied a promotion...
...Remember, we are not discussing the endorsement of one of the two candidates who, by extraordinary twists of fate, happened to be runningfor President...
...It clearly established its position in opposition to the AFL-CIO policy on the war...
...the traumatized old-timers who remember the days of the Stalinist-dominated College Teachers Union and the witch-hunt repressions...
...1. The union's position on promotions is that of a dual track of advancement up to the rank of Associate Professor...
...During the campaign, we stressed the issues including the strengthening of the powers of faculty senates and councils which are currently advisory and largely impotent...
...Does one serve even the best interests of the nation by singling out for special distinction the man who insists that he is still titular head of the Democratic party, though he knows that his pre tension is treated laughingly by millions of lib erals...
...This controversy was resolved by the union's position of having the senior college schedule as the basic CUNY schedule with a $2,000 differential above this schedule for the Ph.D...
...Among the members and consultants of the Council are: Roger Baldwin, John C. Bennett, Norman Pod horetz, Bayard Rustin, and Leon Shull...
...Outstanding merit as judged by departmental peers would provide more rapid advancement by promotion from rank to rank...
...Others were opposed to the UFT strike because of their belief that "due process" was not involved and that the aspirations of the black and Puerto Rican "community" were being stymied by the UFT...
...It was supported by our entire Executive Board which is representative of both four-year colleges and community colleges...
...It is after all those within the League forIndustrial Democracy who decided to give Hubert Humphrey their annual award who recklessly endangered the fragile coalition the LID is supposed to represent...
...Does one serve the cause of unity by singlingout from among all candidates for an annual [LID] award one of the few men who, for millions of Democrats, symbolizes the forces that betrayedthe Democratic mandate of 1964...
...Grant the claim...
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...2. Murray Hausknecht has confused the promotional issue with a controversy over having both senior and community college staff paid according to the senior college salary schedule...
...This is hardly traditional unionism...
...This would prevent the practice of keeping deserving individuals at the rank of Assistant Professor for the rest of their professional lives because of budgetary considerations...
...In thatevent, they had best think again...
...Does Rustin believe what he says...
...The conservative supporters of the "company union," the Legislative Conference, were opposed to the strike because it was a strike...
...6. Finally, I most emphatically take issue with the implication that the UFCT was a factoryoriented "bread-and-butter" business union...
...3. The UFT strike was a factor in our loss at the senior colleges, but it was a bit more complex than the article indicated...
...The promotion to rank of full Professor would be based solely on outstanding merit considerations...
...techniques for influencing American public opinion and foreign policy...
...Internships are being offered in New England, New York City, the Midwest, the Pacific Northwest, and California...
...Or do they think that awarding a prize to Hubert Humphrey was acrucial element in the general effort to reunite theDemocratic Left...
...In the face of arbitrary percentage quotas for each rank dictated by budgetary considerations which bear no relation to merit, the UFCT proposal is that once an individual is granted tenure after a rigorous selection and evaluation process, he would be able to advance by annual increments to maximum in rank and shift to the next rank until he is an Associate Professor...
...The Union also pioneered the concept of the City University program of SEEK and College Discovery which enables high school graduates from ghetto areas to get into college with the necessary remedial and financial assistance...
...available for all faculty members...
...The program is conducted by the World Without War Council of the United States, a cooperative effort by organizations and individuals who LETTERS share the goal of a disarmed world under law in which free societies can grow and flourish...
...The campaign was positive until the final run-off when we did seek some sharper differentiation from the Legislative Conference...
...INTERNE PROGRAM The HHH Award Editor: Bayard Rustin [DISSENT, May—June 1961] saysthat "Our main job today is to reunite the Demo cratic Left, not to splinter it or disdainfully exclude those who eminently belong within it...
...How often in the recent past have we heardthose who take divisive action demand support onthe grounds that opposition would break political unity...
...An interne in this program is expected to commit at least one year of full time work to developing knowledge and experience in three fields: the nature of international conflict...
...We are discussing a deliberate decision to single out from hundreds of potential candidates a man who, more than any other save one, was bound to strain to the breakingpoint relations with those with whom Rustinclaims he wants to reunite...
...John's University and in a myriad other instances involving academic freedom are well known...
...We eschewed a "closed or union" shop...
...5. Other explanations for our weaker showing in the senior colleges include: the professoriate, entirely satisfied with the salary gains won for them by the UFT...
...This proposal was not an idea that met favor only with our community college membership...
...and the younger group, which up to now has had the mobility of the individual academic entrepreneur...
...If they can believe that, theycan believe anything...
...4. I disagree with the characterization of the UFCT as employing the tone, rhetoric, or posture of the union-organizing days of the thirties...
...and professional means for dealing with these problems in the public arena...
...The act makes little political sense except as an expression of contempt for millionsof people who will be needed if the coalition Rustin favors is to be rebuilt...
...College Teachers' Union Editor: May I make a few corrective comments on our UFCT member Murray Hausknecht's analysis of the City University collective bargaining election...
...Or perhaps thosemembers of the LID who ignored strong disagreement with their decision think that the dissenters can be written off as politically irrelevant...
Vol. 16 • July 1969 • No. 4
