Queens College and the TWU strike: Doing the Bossman's work

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If you go to the Queens College homepage, www.qc.edu/main.html, you can scroll 
to the middle of the page and find QC's information to its students regarding 
the possibility of a transit strike. The problem is that the website presents 
this information in an obviously ideologically-driven manner:

"Mayor Bloomberg announced City's contingency plans for possible illegal 
transit workers' strike."

Now, of course the strike would be "illegal" under the Taylor Law.  But why is 
it necessary to insert that word if you are just giving students information on 
whether or not campus will be open?  Is it the job of the school to further 
demonize the TWU, or to let students make up their minds for themselves?  This 
is especially insulting in that many QC students themselves or their parents 
are members of Local 100.

This is just part of the overall direction QC is taking, including trying to 
break away from CUNY.  If the conservative elite that run things at QC and CUNY 
think they are going to have an easy ride pushing austerity and this type of 
support for their buddies on the students of QC, they got another thing coming.

The President of QC was formerly the "CEO" of another college.  The 
corporatization of education must stop! Let's get rid of the Board of Trustees 
and CEO presidents and bring true democracy to CUNY.

And if things were different we would ahve a student strike in solidarity with 
the TWU.


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