On My Own

El presidente is away at a conference this week, so I'm heading up the union by myself for the week. Sounds exciting to some people, but in practice really all it means is I need to sign more things and approve more stuff. Uni holidays are on at the moment, so campus is quiet - personally I love it; no lining up for the ATM, no queueing for lunch, no having to navigate the crowds simply to go visit our business department which is in a different building. No people also means no income, though, which isn't exactly so great.

We had a meeting with the trade union reps that represent our staff on Friday. These are one of the more frustrating and time-wasting meetings that we have on a semi-regular basis. Now, I'm a huge supporter of collective bargaining and trade unionism - staff in workplaces that are unionised are consistently shown to have better pay, entitlements and work conditions. However, I think when union reps are representing staff in a workplace that already has excellent conditions, they don't exactly know what to do with themselves, so they find an endless list of petty, menial, trivial complaints to present to the executive, to make it appear to the staff that at least they are doing something, so staff should still be members. What a waste of a day.

6 or 7 weeks to go til I find out for sure whether or not I have an interview...