Two outstanding Missouri labor educators - Judy Ancel and Don Giljum - have been part of a coordinated right-wing assault.
The known purveyor of chop-shop videos, Andrew Breitbart, is now using the class room to attack academic freedom and organized labor.
Check the links below for more details:
Two outstanding Missouri labor educators - Judy Ancel and Don Giljum - have been part of a coordinated right-wing assault.
The known purveyor of chop-shop videos, Andrew Breitbart, is now using the class room to attack academic freedom and organized labor.
Check the links below for more details:
http://chronicle.com/...
http://www.insidehighered.com/...
http://www.usatoday.com/...
Even though video footage from Judy Ancel and Don Giljum's classrooms were obviously doctored, spliced and taken out of context, the University of Missouri St. Louis has pressured Don Giljum to resign.
Giljum, former business manager for IUOE Local 148, has received numerous email and telephone threats.
As a supporter of labor and democracy, please contact the University of Missouri St. Louis and demand that Don Giljum be reinstated and rehired next semester, as no formal investigation has been conducted by the
University and he has been denied due process.
Additionally, some of the larger issues involved are: union rights, the importance of labor studies, academic freedom, the rights of adjunct faculty, students' right to privacy, the right to due process, etc.
Please contact Chancellor Thomas F. George (tfgeorge@umsl.edu or 314-516-5252) and Associate Dean Debbi Baldini (BaldiniD@msx.umsl.edu), denounce the forced resignation of Don Giljumand ask for his immediate reinstatement.
Please forward this request to your colleagues and friends.