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California and Teachers Union Move Education Into the Future
October 13th, 2011No, public control and unions don’t reduce innovation:
The University of California last week tentatively agreed to a deal with UC-AFT that included a new provision barring the system and its campuses from creating online courses or programs that would result in “a change to a term or condition of employment†of any lecturer without first dealing with the union.
Bob Samuels, the president of the union, says this effectively gives the union veto power over any online initiative that might endangers the jobs or work lives of its members. “We feel that we could stop almost any online program through this contract,†Samuels told Inside Higher Ed.
(Via Tyler Cowen.)
What a triumph.
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