LIU-Brooklyn Professors Locked Out

[smilo]

I know this forum is hardly concentrated in the northeast, so I don't know how the news has spread, but due to unfair wages that the union was trying to fight against, the LIU-Brooklyn Campus professors have been locked out by the administration.

(First (https://www.insidehighered.com/blogs/just-visiting/battle-liu-brooklyn-whose-university-it-anyway) link on google for the newly acquainted. (https://www.insidehighered.com/blogs/just-visiting/battle-liu-brooklyn-whose-university-it-anyway) If it's too biased, I don't know, google it yourself.)

I have heard that the ultimate goal may be to sell the very valuable land in downtown Brooklyn and simply remain on the true Long Island-Post campus.

I post here because I am curious of the potential sports implications. As a Saint Francis College fan, I would be very sad to see the Battle of Brooklyn disappear. LIU Post is obviously a D2 school, but I'm not sure if a 'merger' would allow them to retain D1 status in the NEC under simply 'LIU'.

[walliver]

I know this forum is hardly concentrated in the northeast, so I don't know how the news has spread, but due to unfair wages that the union was trying to fight against, the LIU-Brooklyn Campus professors have been locked out by the administration.

(First (https://www.insidehighered.com/blogs/just-visiting/battle-liu-brooklyn-whose-university-it-anyway) link on google for the newly acquainted. (https://www.insidehighered.com/blogs/just-visiting/battle-liu-brooklyn-whose-university-it-anyway) If it's too biased, I don't know, google it yourself.)

I have heard that the ultimate goal may be to sell the very valuable land in downtown Brooklyn and simply remain on the true Long Island-Post campus.

I post here because I am curious of the potential sports implications. As a Saint Francis College fan, I would be very sad to see the Battle of Brooklyn disappear. LIU Post is obviously a D2 school, but I'm not sure if a 'merger' would allow them to retain D1 status in the NEC under simply 'LIU'.

If your goal is to discuss the "sports" aspect of this, why did you start the thread with inflammatory political rhetoric?

[smilo]

I was explaining the issue at hand without taking a side?? There is a wage gap between what is paid to the Brooklyn campus and Post campus without a tuition gap. That is a fact of the situation.

I'm frankly not even sure which side you think I've taken because I simply haven't taken one and am almost exclusively interested in the sports side of this.

[dgtw]

You could have just said "due to a dispute over wages", which is much more neutral than "unfair wages". Your phrasing is certainly taking a side on the issue.

An actual news article would have been much better than an obviously biased blog. I don't know anything about the story, but I'd rather read a straightforward article giving the facts of the story rather than one filled with the writer's commentary. It is like reading an article about Hillary Clinton on breitbart.

[superman7515]

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/15/nyregion/faculty-lockout-at-liu-brooklyn-ends-with-contract-agreement.html


A faculty lockout at Long Island University-Brooklyn (http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/07/nyregion/liu-brooklyn-locks-out-professors-amid-contract-dispute.html) ended on Wednesday after 12 days, with the administration and the faculty agreeing to extend a contract that had expired at the end of August.

The announcement came on the heels of several student walkouts in protest of the replacement teachers who conducted classes, which began on Sept. 7.

“If the university wanted to keep a semester viable for the students, they had to end the lockout because the students stood up and said, ‘This is a betrayal,’” Randi Weingarten, the president of the American Federation of Teachers, said on Wednesday night.

The expired contract will run until May 31, 2017, as negotiations on a new one continue. Faculty members will return to classes on Thursday, the university said...