temple university admin-chads come out swinging on deadbeat, striking grad students [effort post!!!!]

see admin e-mail post here.

I just came here to say Temple has one of the most incompetent university administrations that I've ever witnessed. Holy shit

I'm hoping they're at least competent enough to ensure the fire code of their administration buildings are still up to date...

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I don't understand how you can be so evil and not realize you're the villain. They're going to lose this fight.

This just like my Avengers movie!

Temple University has also removed pay and tuition benefits from all striking students.

Saw on Twitter, this real?

Yes, they sent this email to all TUGSA members currently on strike earlier today.

As far as I know, Temple is the first university to do this during a graduate employee strike.

Trailblazers

It might not be, but this feels illegal. And its definitely immoral.

Less immoral than not doing your job and depriving paying students of their education?

they also brought in SCABS (replacement teachers) who are fired racists and male feminists! (according to the union)

stop shaming students are still attending classes taught by replacement professors

This is exactly what Temple wants, us to be blaming each other instead of the administration that refused to negotiate in good faith for an entire year. The university cannot punish you for refusing to break a strike, even though they are saying otherwise. Missing a class one time in week 4 to support your actual instructors is the least we can do for them considering what they are giving up to strike right now (pay, tuition, healthcare, job security)

Yeah, get wrapped up in this thing that has no impact on you so some whiny TA bastard can make a dollar more!

OP I hear you, BUT:

WHY did you have to take out loans? Why is tuition SO unbelievably expensive? Why did tuition go UP 3.9%?? Even though Temple made a PROFIT of about $240,000,000 last year? And the president makes a million dollars a year? And the dozens of vice presidents make 300,000 a year???

Temple wants to squash ALL resistance on campus so they can do this stuff to us.

If we want a chance to change this, we have to stand together AGAINST the millionaire prez.

How do we CHANGE this? We gotta stand with TUGSA for real!! And that means getting together with friends and refusing to go to class taught by scabs!!!!

i guarantee u this strike will not result in reduced tuition

Oh man, I'm glad the strikes that gave the US unions last century didn't rest on your shoulders. You have been conditioned to believe there is nothing you can do to better the current exploitative system (hint: Temple underpaying TAs is still way better than the way corporations exploit their workers).

If it had been up to you to strike, we'd still have a 6 day work week, 16 hour days, and child labor.

I DO feel for you. You are getting burned a bit by this. But you are already surrounded by a burning building. If you truly believe that burning building isn't going to impact your life, then I would have to assume you are well off enough to not be complaining in the first place.

To repeat: keeping your head down until you get your degree does not change the circumstances you will then find yourself in.

God, I fricking hate unions. I'd go back into the factory for 12-hour shifts seven days a week if I never had to hear a soy "POWER TO THE PEOPLE" activist ever again.