Strike!

I'd love to see you guys have a forum to discuss your views on the GEO strike.  So have at it!  I hope you don’t mind if I on occasion post my own reflections (this is not class-content-specific), should you guys get a discussion going.  Some disclaimers here:

-  You are NOT required to post anything here.  This is not a class assignment and will not be graded.  It is just here to get you guys thinking about what all this means.

-  Any views that you post here will in no way be considered in grading for the class, nor will they be held against you personally.

So, what do you think about the strike?  Do you feel like you understand why it is taking place?  What do you think is happening to this University or universities in the U.S. in general?  How should universities spend their money?  Is there anything we can learn from this experience?  Are unions a good thing or bad thing?

If I may, here is an example of what some people regard as poor uses of money (money that the University perpetually claims doesn’t exist, despite perpetually rising tuition): an investigative report I just came across about the UI Research Park:

www.news-gazette.com/news/local/2009/11/15/a_decade_later_jurys_still_out_on_ui_research_park