[Magdalen] Pray for GTS today

[Jim Guthrie]

From: James Oppenheimer

>I think he has put his finger on the crux of the matter.  Also, I will not
>be surprised to discover that gts has been in worse shape than they wanted
>to admit, and it was either going to sink or make major, major changes,
>including massive pay cuts.

Certainly the financials are terrible. I do not know what the faculty is paid, 
and anything regarding that is really "out there" speculation. And it's unlikely 
they will get others at much lower compensation levels in the middle of 
Manhattan -- that's one of the reasons that New York City is so economically 
vibrant in the first place.

>And what better way to cut wages than to provoke the faculty into cutting
>their own throats?

People who actually live on this planet don’t go out on "strike" when it's not a 
matter of labor law with a union contract. The faculty may have some romantic 
notion of themselves as miners or autoworkers or steelworkers, but one would 
actually expect them to see themselves as professionals.

Bishop Dietsche's response (and Bishop Stoke's)  are helpful. I suspect that if 
the faculty had backed away from their "non negotiable demands" that the 
resolution for provisional reinstatement would have been unconditional.


Cheers,
Jim Guthrie