Questions for and about Support Staff

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I am conducting research about capitalist exploitation of workers in the education industry. Please consider answering some or all of the questions. You can come back and edit/add to your responses at any time.

The questions in this survey series are adapted specifically for education workers from Karl Marx's pamphlet "A Workers' Inquiry", which was first published in La Revue Socialiste on April 20, 1880. They were originally composed as a zine, which you can access here or download a printable version from our website.

I encourage you to use these questions in the process of organizing collective power in your workplace.

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If you are support staff at a school, library, or museum, how would you rate the relationship between support and instructional staff?

Extremely negative

Extremely positive

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Please describe the relationship between support and instructional staff.

Does administration/management treat you differently from instructional staff?

If work takes place both night and day, what is the order of the shifts? Is there any communication between them?

Is there mandatory or voluntary overtime offered? Do overtime hours fluctuate based on season?

Are any support staff contracted out or hired directly by the institution you work for?

If you are a crossing guard, what personal dangers do you face from traffic? Do you normally work in another role simultaneously?

How is student transportation and busing handled? Where are buses parked? Where are they taken for maintenance and gas?

Do you receive the same visibility and recognition that instructional staff receive from the institution?

What is the turnover rate for support staff compared to instructional staff?

Are there on site maintenance staff or are you hired from outside?

Do you have any suggestions for how to improve this set of surveys? I would especially appreciate any suggestions for new questions and revisions to make existing questions more inclusive.

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