Word: contract
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Boston University (B.U.) has been a minefield of labor blow-ups for five years, ever since it became the first major private university in the country with a faculty union. A lengthy strike last April by professors, secretaries and librarians ended with a contract faculty officials said would end the problems...
...union claimed pink slips and denials of salary increases violated the contract between the faculty and the trustees...
Associate provost Jon Westling claims that his office sent 50 to 60 termination letters to junior professors, all legal under the contract and not an especially large number of terminations...
...those receiving the pink slips will lose their jobs Westling said, because notices were sent whenever there was doubt about renewing a person's contract. He declined to estimate how many would be retained...
Westling said the terminations were legal under the contract. He said the letters were sent before Aug. 31--the one-year notification deadline--and departments were consulted when the deans decided which contracts should not be renewed...