Michael Moore slams Sarah Lawrence's response to union
Source: Lohud
Elizabeth Ganga
YONKERS Documentary filmmaker Michael Moore excoriated the Sarah Lawrence College administration Friday for its response to the organization of a union for building workers on campus.
Moore, whose daughter attended the college more than a decade ago and who spoke Friday at a teach-in organized by faculty and students, asked the administration to honor the values of the college and back down. Otherwise, he said, he would never step foot on the campus again.
"It would be the last place I would expect to see this kind of rotten behavior," he said after a winding speech on the benefits of unions that touched on "Downton Abbey" and Nike co-founder Phil Knight.
Moore and the others on the panel, including students, faculty, building workers and union representatives, called on the administration to fire a law firm, Bond, Schoeneck & King, that they said was known for its union-busting tactics. The firm is representing the college in negotiations with the new union, which was approved by the building workers in November in an 11-1 vote.
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Filmmaker Michael Moore spoke Friday at a teach-in at Sarah Lawrence College to protest the schools response to a union organizing effort on campus.
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Divernan
(15,480 posts)mimi85
(1,805 posts)Darb
(2,807 posts)Nice job.........not.
Weak.
Lucky Luciano
(11,257 posts)I like the work he has done and the humorous presentation style he has. I hadn't seen a public appearance of him for a while and it seems like he aged A LOT...I do genuinely hope he does take better care of himself though.
msanthrope
(37,549 posts)Darb
(2,807 posts)Perhaps you could expound.
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LeftyMom
(49,212 posts)What's up with all the transphobic trolling on DU in the past few days?
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1StrongBlackMan
(31,849 posts)contemporary academic transgenderism.
alp227
(32,034 posts)LeftyMom
(49,212 posts)Which leads me to believe that we need a stronger statement from the admins about transphobia, because juries are particularly unreliable on that subject.
alp227
(32,034 posts)DU's admins want to reach a mainstream audience. TERFism, sadly, is mainstream. What to do, risk alienating many potential users (thus ad dollars) in the name of upholding community standards?
LeftyMom
(49,212 posts)Ignorance about trans people and a certain degree of transphobia is almost certainly mainstream, sadly.
But the ideas TERFs have about gender as a whole are pretty boutique, as well as being outdated and based on bad science.
Their obsession with the idea that transwomen are just lurking to rape cis women? Weirdly they share that one with the extreme fundamentalist Christians (not the first time their beliefs overlapped, sadly) but I think that most people would see that less as a real risk than a particularly unbelievable SVU plotline.
dembotoz
(16,808 posts)you use lots of big words there
guess i am supposed to be impressed