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Wednesday, April 5
So apparently the strike is over or by 2 it will be announced officially anyway. I'm glad, I'd like the term to end, and if the two parties that were fighting are content, then they've achieved their goal. Unfortunately, I still think students this term are screwed. I've heard that the contingency plan is that there will be one last class held, then straight to exams, no delays, no real opportunity to go to profs for final assistance on course issues or questions. Hmm. I'm slightly stressed and I only have one class, which doesn't really matter to much for anything, I would just like to do well. I can only imagine the utter panic some students are having right now. But really, the students are the last ones that will be hurt in the process, we have assurances on that from the administration.
One thing that I did wonder about (and no, I'm not demanding a refund) is where all that money is going to go? That's a little more than 2 weeks wages that the university hasn't needed to put out to their faculty and library staff. They all had strike pay to tide them over, so they're ok. I think that there were about 300 or so staff that were striking, and I would assume the minimum that any of them would be paid is 15$/hr (and from the graphs I've seen, most of them a damn sight more than that), and that they work an average of 40 hours a week. Add that up to about $360,000. That's a fair chunk of change, considering it is probably more than that with higher wages factored in, perhaps they'll be adding to the growing crop of buildings that they're sprouting up around campus?
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