In class on Thursday we discussed Brandt’s article, “Sponsors of Literacy,” where we read about Dwayne Lowery’s story. \u00a0He worked in a factory for a period of time before he attended a four month training in union organizing and subsequently became a field staff representative for the union. \u00a0When he began working, he had an advantage because of his training, but soon after, the companies responded to the union power by hiring lawyers. \u00a0The language and process was changing\u00a0and Lowery fell behind, so he was forced\u00a0into early retirement. \u00a0A recent MA graduate replaced him because of the “high track” literacy that was now required by the job.<\/p>\n
In my group, we discussed the problematic nature of Lowery’s situation and we even thought that it might be a disadvantage to the union to replace Lowery with someone new because Lowery had so much more knowledge from working with the union for so long. \u00a0It also goes against the ideals of a union, which is to protect workers like Lowery. \u00a0Do you think that there’s any way to reconcile the newly required essayist writing skills with Lowery’s experience? \u00a0Is there any way that it would have been feasible for Lowery to keep his job? \u00a0Do you think that Lowery still could have helped the union even though he didn’t have the “essayist” skills?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
In class on Thursday we discussed Brandt’s article, “Sponsors of Literacy,” where we read about Dwayne Lowery’s story. \u00a0He worked in a factory for a period of time before he attended a four month training in union organizing and subsequently became a field staff representative for the union. \u00a0When he began working, he had an … Continue reading “Dwayne Lowery”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.annettevee.com\/2016spring_usesofliteracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.annettevee.com\/2016spring_usesofliteracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.annettevee.com\/2016spring_usesofliteracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.annettevee.com\/2016spring_usesofliteracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.annettevee.com\/2016spring_usesofliteracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.annettevee.com\/2016spring_usesofliteracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":120,"href":"https:\/\/www.annettevee.com\/2016spring_usesofliteracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118\/revisions\/120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.annettevee.com\/2016spring_usesofliteracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.annettevee.com\/2016spring_usesofliteracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.annettevee.com\/2016spring_usesofliteracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}