Sunday, February 12, 2006
Same Old Pig - New Dress
One of the many things that has been very frustrating during this process is that the administration has put forth a number of proposals, but fundamentally they have all involved exactly the same amount of money. Whereas the union has made a number of concessions in an effort to meet the administration somewhere in the middle, the administration has stuck with essentially the same offer since the summer.
The administration has fixed an amount, roughly $1.4 million, and all of its offers have been variations on the same theme, $1.4 million. For example, it has attempted to throw out the existing step system with a really confusing substitute: total monies, $1.4 million. It has attempted to raid faculty development to put more into salaries: total monies, $1.4 million. It has generously offered to greatly reduce the pay rate for summer school: total monies, $1.4 million. As you see, no matter what it proposes, the administration's budget is still $1.4 million.
In other words, the administration keeps taking the same $1.4 million pig and putting different dresses on it. Each time the administration claims that it is trying to negotiate with us and that the pig is something new. Granted, some of those dresses were uglier than others, but fundamentally it's always that same pig.
We'd really like to see a new, better pig.
The administration has fixed an amount, roughly $1.4 million, and all of its offers have been variations on the same theme, $1.4 million. For example, it has attempted to throw out the existing step system with a really confusing substitute: total monies, $1.4 million. It has attempted to raid faculty development to put more into salaries: total monies, $1.4 million. It has generously offered to greatly reduce the pay rate for summer school: total monies, $1.4 million. As you see, no matter what it proposes, the administration's budget is still $1.4 million.
In other words, the administration keeps taking the same $1.4 million pig and putting different dresses on it. Each time the administration claims that it is trying to negotiate with us and that the pig is something new. Granted, some of those dresses were uglier than others, but fundamentally it's always that same pig.
We'd really like to see a new, better pig.
# posted by Charles Anderson @ 12:53 PM 
