Friday, December 09, 2022
Unionizing as Pedagogy
Architect Magazine: This fleeting speck of a life we’re given is nothing compared to the infinity one experiences when opening the morning’s emails. You send one, and six more arrive. In the workplace, time slips by; you forget the monetary and moral value of an hour spent on Zoom, in meetings, and, yes, sending those emails. But as a part-time faculty member at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago’s Architecture, Interior Architecture, and Designed Objects department, I’m deeply aware of the value of each bit of labor I perform.
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This kind of article is so difficult to read. It makes me so angry at the world that teachers are not being paid for their time spent on administrative work. Excuse my French, but that is such fucking bullshit. How the hell do you justify only paying teachers for the time they spend in the classroom. Do administrators think teachers walk into the classroom every day and just wing it? There is so much work that goes into making a classroom successful. I am really glad that they are pushing back on that and fighting to unionize so that they can be compensated fairly for all the hours of work they put in. The part where Rao mentions that they are taught to devalue their time really resonates with me because I see it all the time at the school of drama. Set designers creating more models and updated drafting packaged over the weekend. Lighting designers cueing for hours outside of tech. All that work is work and if our production calendar is not tenable without students putting additional ridiculous amounts of hours than that needs to be addressed so it can be fixed.
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