Ian Mullins has been fighting for the right to bargain collectively since he took a teaching job at UVA. It’s not a tenured post, so he makes a lot less than other sociologists in his department, and he says, many university employees can’t afford to live in Charlottesville.
“They could commute up to an hour each way each day they go to work,” he says. “UVA employees have had to take on second jobs, like overnight at Kroger, which not only is exhausting but it also takes them away from their family, their neighborhood and their community.”
And they have no say on important work-related issues – like class size…