Imagine a workplace where management fosters openness, creativity, and intellectual freedom through fair compensation for technical, not just managerial accomplishments: a Utopian dream? Maybe, but for 30 years, SPSE has worked relentlessly towards this dream. It has not been easy; we have had to step on many toes, and we have been chastised by many people who thought us too extreme. Looking back, I see us as having been persistent, forceful, sensitive to unfairness, willing to compromise on details, never on principles. I do not see us as extremists: we want to work with our management not against it; we want to strengthen the UC relationship not destroy it; we want a stronger Lab not a weaker one. Above all, we want a workforce that is rewarded for meaningful work. We want a workforce that every day looks forward to come to work here not one that wishes for yet another retirement incentive.
Excerpted from SPSE Newsletter #3, 1998
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