Some days the realities of work appear in all their nakedness.
Far as jobs go, mine ain’t all that bad. I mean, I generally get treated relatively well, I make a good wage, I get benefits and lots of vacation time, and I have the flexibility in scheduling to facilitate the demands of parenting. On top [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Work’
Workin’
Posted in Labour and Unions, Political Stuff, tagged Labour and Unions, Work on March 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Workday Fantasies
Posted in Misc., tagged Resistance, Work on February 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Crazy busy at work this week, which has meant no time for the blog at all, and a general frustration with the mounds of paper on my desk that seem to never shrink and the ever-growing folder of emails needing follow-up. Really seeming like there’s a complaint-a-thon happening at the university these days, cause I’m [...]
Union Identities
Posted in Labour and Unions, Political Stuff, tagged Identity, Work on October 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Y’know, doing the union thing can be mighty strange, particularly when you come to it as a radical. The way various emotions are triggered, the competing and conflicting ideas and analyses and reactions you feel – it involves living with and in multiple identities. And I don’t mean putting on a game-face or playing a [...]
Union Bosses
Posted in Labour and Unions, tagged History, Labour and Unions, The Left, Work on May 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
It’s been a union-centred life of late, even more than normally. Meg spent last week in Ottawa bargaining and rallying to express offense at the flat-out shitty offer the government has made to its workers, so I was thinking about her and her frustrations alot. And here in Vancouver I was getting settled into my first week back [...]
Bret Hart and the Union Thang
Posted in Labour and Unions, Political Stuff, Reading and Writing, tagged Work, Wrestling on May 13, 2008 | 1 Comment »
We didn’t watch much TV when I was a kid. An old Sears black and white, 14 inch screen and no cable would’ve kept us pretty limited even without the strict parental controls -one hour per week plus all the news you want. Every now and then, though, mom and dad would be out on [...]
Stepping Down
Posted in Labour and Unions, Misc., tagged IWW, Work on May 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
A busy day yesterday, and strange. Reflection, grief, anger. There’s lots happening in my home life, with uncertainties and conflicts with my ex, so that’s all hanging in the background as a generalized anxiety and exhaustion. Right now, though, at the forefront has been work.
Yesterday was the last day I am performing the duties of Executive Director. [...]
Workers and Scholars
Posted in Academia, Labour and Unions, tagged Academia, Faculty Associations, Work on May 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Yesterday was elections day. The various unions and faculty associations around the country decide who will represent them on the board of our national federation. And every speech from every candidate addressed the same issue – a deep divide in the membership that exploded last Fall. The fault line? Where should the line be drawn [...]
Academic Matters
Posted in Academia, Labour and Unions, tagged Academia, Faculty Associations, Work on May 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I’m a full-time union rep for a Faculty Association, handling grievances, advising on policy, organizing, and doing collective bargaining for profs and librarians at a big research university. And as I sit here at a national convention with people from other academic unions, and as I hear the debates and discussions about how we all [...]
Bawling with the Boss
Posted in Misc., tagged Personal, Work on May 3, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Balance. We talk about it often as though it’s a state of mind or a state of being. Really, though, seems to me it is a process, a constant adjustment or management of competing priorities, contradictory feelings, confusions. Usually it’s something I do relatively well, or at least appear to do relatively well. Now and then, [...]
