Month: December 2018

Let’s Work Together to Build our Union Membership Over Winter Break!

eBulletin 12/18/2018:

Learn how to have efficient and effective organizing conversations with your colleagues, and then put that knowledge to work by making phone calls to faculty, academic staff, and librarians. We’ll be finding out which workplace issues matter most to our colleagues, and asking them to join our union!

Three Days:

Tuesday January 8th

Wednesday January 9th

Thursday January 10th

 

At the TAUP Offices: 721 Ritter Annex

 

Each day:

Training: 11am – Noon

Phone Banking: Noon – 4pm

 

Attend one, two, or all three days…

Once you’ve done the training, you can come back to make calls on any another day. We do ask that you commit to a minimum of 2 hours of phone banking on the day you attend the training.

 

Lunch will be provided each day around noon, coffee and solidarity with your colleagues all day!

 

Please use this RSVP form to sign up and let us know what day(s) and time(s) you can join us:

https://goo.gl/forms/HlobnoBhXCUUpiNp2

 

Response to O’Connor’s Statements Regarding Marc Lamont Hill

TAUP finds unacceptable the statements by Temple’s Chairman of the Board Patrick O’Connor in response to Professor Marc Lamont Hill’s speech about Israel and Palestine at the United Nations.  Prof. Hill’s remarks are clearly protected by the principles of free speech--as President Englert noted in his message to the Temple community–and by academic freedom, which we are disappointed to find has thus far not been mentioned by Temple’s administration.  We are also deeply disturbed by Chairman O’Connor’s claim that the administration is looking at “what remedies we have” to discipline Prof. Hill.  Prof. Hill is covered by the TAUP contract, which begins with the principles of academic freedom, and which clearly sets out procedures for disciplining faculty members.  We trust that the contract will be followed; if it is not, the administration can count on a vigorous defense by TAUP of Prof. Hill’s rights as set forth in it.