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Sounds like the professors and lecturers should form a union (or push their union to do better)

This happens in other professions too where non-unionized folks manage unionized folks. The managers can make less because they don't have collective bargaining.

This happens in other professions too where non-unionized folks manage unionized folks. The managers can make less because they don't have collective bargaining.

It doesn't make much sense in this particular case, but the assumption that managers should make more than workers is in fact kind of odd, and probably more of a reflection of power and hierarchies than the actual value-add of the work.

They seem to have a union already. From what I can tell FTA, the ones who got a raise are "UAW 2865" and the ones who didn't are "The University Council-American Federation of Teachers".

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