{"id":548927,"date":"2010-04-30T17:38:40","date_gmt":"2010-04-30T21:38:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seattletimes.nwsource.com\/html\/northwestvoices\/2011748665_toprotestfiringof447teachingassistantsstrikecouldstartmonday.html?syndication=rss"},"modified":"2010-07-19T20:17:16","modified_gmt":"2010-07-20T00:17:16","slug":"to-protest-firing-of-447-teaching-assistants-strike-could-start-monday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/548927","title":{"rendered":"To protest firing of 447 teaching assistants, strike could start Monday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Revenge of the TAs<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I read in The Daily that the University of Washington plans to fire 447 teaching assistants (TAs) next year as part of their cost-cutting process, and that the teaching assistants are organizing a strike to protest this unfortunate decision. In a school that is already burdened with large classes, I would like Seattle Times reporters to answer the following questions:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The University raised more than $2.5 billion dollars in a capital campaign. Where has this money gone?<\/li>\n<li>The top eight officials at the UW make exorbitant salaries. Why don\u2019t they take a 50-percent salary cut to support their TAs?<\/li>\n<li>Why won\u2019t the state Legislature allow the UW to increase tuition so it could pay for more teachers?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The alumni watching from the outside are very puzzled by the actions of the UW and the state Legislature. If the UW is a teaching institution, why is it not supporting its own teachers and students?<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2014 Glenna Burmer, Seattle<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Revenge of the TAs I read in The Daily that the University of Washington plans to fire 447 teaching assistants (TAs) next year as part of their cost-cutting process, and that the teaching assistants are organizing a strike to protest this unfortunate decision. In a school that is already burdened with large classes, I would [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2861,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-548927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2861"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=548927"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548927\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=548927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=548927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=548927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}