Author: Theresa Kulbaga

New Year. New Management Lawyer. New Delays On our 492nd day of working without a contract, we got to meet Management’s third new lawyer…along with all the other delays Management has brought to the process, including but not limited to: picking arbitrary fights, writing arcane interpretations of Ohio law that teeter on the edge of…

Our members are getting frustrated and angry over delays and lack of respect from university administration. We are willing to work through the winter break to finish this contract. We ask the board to direct your team to meet with us again this month so we can make progress.

Is it good stewardship to construct budgets that starve our core academic mission of funds? Year on year, we hear of deficits in the Academic Affairs budget that require cuts. But year on year, when we move from budget to actuals, we find that we’re running large surpluses and the “deficit” has vanished.

The very thought of such a possible desecration of the most iconic green space and soul of this university is what has brought me here to attend my first ever Trustees meeting and to appeal to your better judgment.

We are told that it’s ok if we’re routinely working 60 or 70 hour weeks, and that we can leave if we don’t like it. Is this how you retain a great library staff? 

A literal application of the current workload metric as it stands would radically destabilize the educational ecosystem that we have now.  A more tempered, sensitive model needs to be developed in collaboration with faculty as part of shared governance.