Michael Moore slams Sarah Lawrence's response to union

[Omaha Steve]

Source: Lohud

Elizabeth Ganga

YONKERS – Documentary filmmaker Michael Moore excoriated the Sarah Lawrence College administration Friday for its response to the organization of a union for building workers on campus.

Moore, whose daughter attended the college more than a decade ago and who spoke Friday at a teach-in organized by faculty and students, asked the administration to honor the values of the college and back down. Otherwise, he said, he would never step foot on the campus again.

"It would be the last place I would expect to see this kind of rotten behavior," he said after a winding speech on the benefits of unions that touched on "Downton Abbey" and Nike co-founder Phil Knight.

Moore and the others on the panel, including students, faculty, building workers and union representatives, called on the administration to fire a law firm, Bond, Schoeneck & King, that they said was known for its union-busting tactics. The firm is representing the college in negotiations with the new union, which was approved by the building workers in November in an 11-1 vote.

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Filmmaker Michael Moore spoke Friday at a teach-in at Sarah Lawrence College to protest the school’s response to a union organizing effort on campus.
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[Divernan]

2. True, but he is one beautiful human being on the inside!i

[mimi85]

3. Just thinking the same thing. nt

[Darb]

6. First out of the box with a big fat distraction basically attacking Moore's looks.

Nice job.........not.

Weak.

[Lucky Luciano]

10. Apologies. Not the intent. I like MM.

I like the work he has done and the humorous presentation style he has. I hadn't seen a public appearance of him for a while and it seems like he aged A LOT...I do genuinely hope he does take better care of himself though.

[msanthrope]

4. Ultimate Helicopter Parent. nt

[Darb]

7. Not seeing that at all.

Perhaps you could expound.

[LeftyMom]

8. "Arcane transgender ideology"

What's up with all the transphobic trolling on DU in the past few days?

[1StrongBlackMan]

11. How so? I know nothing of this ...

contemporary academic transgenderism.

[alp227]

13. That message was hidden 7-0. A unanimous jury means a MIRT review. nt

[LeftyMom]

14. Some of the others in our sudden influx of TERFs are slipping past juries.

Which leads me to believe that we need a stronger statement from the admins about transphobia, because juries are particularly unreliable on that subject.

[alp227]

15. It looks like the need for more traffic/posts outweighs ToS, sometimes.

DU's admins want to reach a mainstream audience. TERFism, sadly, is mainstream. What to do, risk alienating many potential users (thus ad dollars) in the name of upholding community standards?

[LeftyMom]

16. I don't think that's particularly true.

Ignorance about trans people and a certain degree of transphobia is almost certainly mainstream, sadly.

But the ideas TERFs have about gender as a whole are pretty boutique, as well as being outdated and based on bad science.

Their obsession with the idea that transwomen are just lurking to rape cis women? Weirdly they share that one with the extreme fundamentalist Christians (not the first time their beliefs overlapped, sadly) but I think that most people would see that less as a real risk than a particularly unbelievable SVU plotline.

[dembotoz]

12. so sorry mm did not take the vow of poverty you seem to demand of him

you use lots of big words there

guess i am supposed to be impressed