Inside IBMs Purge of Thousands of Workers Who Have One Thing in Common

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29. colleges and universities, too

I am on the executive boards of both state and local unions and we see several community colleges in NJ that have done massive "layoffs" for older professors. Many are one-year contracts that are just not renewed and others are adjuncts. Makes it real easy for the administration. If they are tenured, the administration makes their job so difficult they flee to another college.

At the same time they are not being offered contracts, they are advertising for teachers on HERC and other college/university job boards.

The administrators, of course, are awarding themselves half-a-million a year contracts and yes, we unions have stormed board meetings to protest it. Most of the boards are headed up by tycoon businessmen, however, who think this way to operate is just ducky.