Talking with John Braxton, assistant bio prof and co-president of the union. "The plan for the day is just to demonstrate to the college that we're not going backwards in our economic goals." Negotiations are sticking mostly over health care. "Health care is the major driving force,yeah," he says, as chants begin: What do we want? Contract! When do we want it? Now!
Last strike about 9 years ago. Now there are 20 picketers, circling and chanting.
Starting salary here with a master's is $35,800 and that's "just not high enough to attract really good people ... That's gotta come up." Administration brags that some students graduated with associate's degrees and get jobs that pay more. Top teachers make somewhere in the low 70,000s, less than some teachers make in public K-12 schools.
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