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A Place for Our Close-Knit Artistic Community to Share Information about Unionization at SFAI. Share your opinions by clicking 'Submit' above.

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Sign our community petition in support of SFAI Visiting Faculty!

From an anonymous person/entity/other:

We are collecting signatures on this community petition asking SFAI administration to remain neutral and not spend student tuition dollars or other college resources to fight their visiting faculty’s union organizing drive. (Clearly, the neutrality thing is already shot.) If you haven’t already done so, sign and share! 

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DOWN WITH THE MURAL!

The infiltration of SEIU into our $mall close-knit artistic community should be a wake-up call. Not only must we quash this foreign invasion, we must eradicate all traces of pro-labor sentiment from SFAI. Additionally, since the Mural, a very quaint, yet insidious pro-labor statement from the pro-labor Mexican  muralist Diego Rivera, is insured for nearly $10 million, and so the proceeds from its destruction and the cash flow saved from its ending its expensive insurance premiums will more than pay for the increased legal work needed to insure that SEIU not only get out, but stay out. The best measures are preventative ones.

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"One last point: some people have asked that Dean Schreiber and I refrain from comment on this matter. But, of course, the job of President and Dean is to analyze issues professionally and to lead, to the best of one’s ability, for the betterment of the institution. We believe that SEIU is an outside force that has little understanding of SFAI’s unique culture and values. We are especially concerned that SEIU would disrupt our close-knit artistic community, and have little to no positive effect for the faculty. That is why we will recommend a No vote on SEIU."

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An Open Letter to President Charles and Dean Schreiber

I want to thank the SFAI administrative wing of our close-knit artistic community for giving our esteemed-part-time-members of our close-knit artistic community the chance to vote on wether or not they want to leave our close-knit artistic community and join SEIU’s not-so-close-knit non-artistic “community.”  Thank you SFAI, President Desmarais, Dean Schreiber, and friends, for giving our visiting faculty this great gift. The letter you sent to students last night letting us know that this was all your idea—was like super inspiring.  I particularly appreciated the bit towards the end where you offered your advice and insight on how the forced inclusion of this foreign entity (SEIU) into our close-knit artistic community would threaten the very fibers of our knitted togetherness, after all the SEIU is NOT an artist. And like an afghan blanket I once inherited from my poor old grandmother, when one thread snaps the whole thing is sure to unravel. Now, some members of our close-knit artistic community have suggested to me that something you said towards the end of your email last night—that unionizing would have “little to no positive effect for the faculty”—was actually some sort of veiled threat. These nay-sayers and conspiracy theorists suggest that you might have meant to coerce visiting faculty members to vote “NO” by threatening that if they were to unionize, the administration would still fight them every step of the way—perhaps even harder than ever. But this was obviously not your intention.  I would like to suggest that SFAI invites its not-so-well-known member of its close-knit artistic community, fellow artist and lawyer, Ron Holland, to lead an info session in the lecture hall about the evils of unionization so that students can prepare themselves to strongly dislike their previously beloved visiting faculty for being so reckless with our precious community. I would also demand that for his precious time, Ron Holland be compensated with an hourly commission higher than his usual going rate of $1,200 an hour. Don’t worry President, this time the students will pick up the tab (per usual). Warm Regards, Fiona

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WHY YOU SHOULD VOTE NO ON SFAI UNIONIZATION!!!

Reason 1: Ron Holland

Without not having a Union, we probably wouldn't be able to be anti-union. Also, we probably wouldn't be able to afford our one and only union-busting lawyer, Ron Holland, whose represented us for 14 years! Not being able to pay his fees would be a tremendous loss to the students, staff and faculty of this institution. Not only does he come highly regarded (Voted "Be$t Lawyer in America" by Best Lawyers for 2012-2014), he even worked for the most notoriou$ B.I.G. anti-labor law firm in the entire United States (when we first invited him to our close-knit artistic community), Littler Mendelson!