When Chris Poulos, an adjunct instructor at Northeastern Illinois University (NEIU), went to a local chapter meeting of the University Professionals of Illinois (http://www.upilocal4100.org) (UPI) union in late November, he was shocked by an item in the “good news” section of the agenda. All employees at NEIU—including professors of all ranks—will soon be required to fill out time sheets to report how many hours they work each day. “Everybody was like ‘What? How is this good news?’ ” recalls Poulos. “It doesn’t even seem innocuous. It seems like a really big loss for the faculty.”
No official date has been set for the policy to go into effect, the union says. But when it does, NEIU will join the majority of state universities in Illinois which require “positive time reporting” from professors—meaning they must record all work time, not just absences and other exceptions to their normal schedule.
Outside of the state, such time-keeping requirements are almost unheard of in the profession. When the administration at Kean University, a public university in New Jersey, tried to institute a positive time reporting policy in 2011, NJ.com reported (http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2011/02/kean_university_now_requires_f.html), “Kean is believed to be one of the only universities in the nation to require full-time professors to account for every hour of their work day on a daily basis.”
At Kean, the policy was quickly deemed unworkable. According to James Castiglione, president of the faculty union at Kean, less than a year after professors started clocking their time, the administration put the policy “on hiatus.” He attributed the suspension to the burden it imposed on the professors as well as the administration. “Every week they were getting 300 forms and it was just piling up. They didn’t have the staff to compile, monitor, file and store it.”


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A timely reminder from the Manifesto


The bourgeoisie has stripped of its halo every occupation hitherto honoured and looked up to with reverent awe. It has converted the physician, the lawyer, the priest, the poet, the man of science, into its paid wage labourers.

and they thought it couldn't happen here.....

A timely reminder from the Manifesto



and they thought it couldn't happen here.....

I have to admit, that I LOVE the idea of these gets having to punch a time-clock! I know, I know, it is just spitefulness on my part, but they ain't too good for it.

And I think that quotation from Marx should be emailed to everyone of those fuckers. I would love to see their faces when they read it.

This from the article is bullshit:


At Kean, the policy was quickly deemed unworkable. According to James Castiglione, president of the faculty union at Kean, less than a year after professors started clocking their time, the administration put the policy “on hiatus.” He attributed the suspension to the burden it imposed on the professors as well as the administration. “Every week they were getting 300 forms and it was just piling up. They didn't have the staff to compile, monitor, file and store it.”

There are two to five support staff for every professor on campus (at a minimum), and all of those staff members punch time-clocks or fill-out time-sheets. The idea that they couldn't "handle" the extra paperwork is ridiculous. The "upper strata" of the working class is beginning to get the same treatment that the rest of us have been receiving since jump - and they are belly-aching. Maybe they should rethink some things, eh?