TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN

 

There were two submissions in the November 4, Mad Hatter referring to
the faculty association and certification. I found the submission by J.H.
to be "relatively incomprehendable due to its excessive utilization of
pompous verbiage."

I did however, understand more clearly the submission of Murray Leslie
and sympathize with his concerns re: certification, the industrial conflict
model of employee-employer relations and a possible loss of local autonomy
in faculty association decision making.

My personal feelings on the subject are publicly displayed as follows:

- Given an administration which recognizes faculty concerns as being
worthy of consideration a loosely organized faculty association
would be all that would be needed to provide a representative
faculty voice.

= To date I do not see the administration of the College as being
cooperative in bringing about an organized faculty voice. On the
contrary some subtle (and some not so subtle) impediments to
such organization seem to have been promoted by the administration.

- Therefore, as an individual faculty member, I feel the need for
some protection from the possibility that some factions of the
College will make decisions in their own interest to the complete
disregard of my own.

= A well organized faculty association would meet my needs but only
if it was able to perform the duties I would require, for example$
affect communication between the members and the executive of the
association, find out what is happening in other colleges relative
to faculty working conditions, salaries etc., provide for effective
communication between the faculty association and the College
Administration, administer bargaining and grievance procedures for
the faculty etc.

- This is a lot to expect the faulty association to do for me, and
unless the association is provided with the manpower and the money
to do the job well, I will not be happy with the representation
they provide.

= This manpower and resources to do the job could come from affiliating
with some outside organization or union who will provide its expertise
in our behalf. This is not satisfactory as far as I am concerned
because I would loose the benefit of local autonomy and my voice
would be rendered ineffective.

continued... 6.2

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