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Dates: during 1970-1979
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JUNIOR FACULTY members who are denied contract renewal are not expected to make waves when they leave. Nor should they file lawsuits against their one-time employer seeking reinstatement. Least of all are they expected to provoke full-scale audits by a federal agency of the University in which they worked...
...Phin Cohen, a former assistant professor of Nutrition at the School of Public Health, has broken all three of these unwritten rules in the past two years since he left the University when his contract was terminated in 1975. Asserting that the University let him go because Cohen attempted to publicize Harvard's improper--and possibly illegal--administration of federal research grants awarded to him by an agency of the U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare (HEW), Cohen has undertaken a one-man campaign to uncover the possibly commonplace abuses of such federal contracts within the University...
...union, Local 35 of the Federation of University Employees, is asking for a one year contract with an eight per cent wage increase, and has said it is willing to negotiate on this and other positions. University officials, however, have said repeatedly that their offer--of partial cost of living increases over three years--is final and not negotiable. The current wage rates, which start at $4.41 an hour, do not need to be changed, administrators say, because they are equal to or are above the wages paid for similar work in the New Haven area and at colleges throughout...
Leyland's car workers voted to replace this chaotic state of affairs with a single companywide labor pact, to be negotiated by November 1979. The centralized agreement is to provide that all Leyland plants pay the same wage for comparable jobs. Negotiating the contract will not be easy: the unskilled production-line workers who belong to the Transport and General Workers Union argue that they ought to be paid as much as the skilled craftsmen represented by the Amalgamated Union of Engineering Workers, while the A.U.E.W. is determined to maintain the pay differentials. But the vote at least staved...
Actually, a conservative Supreme Court soon seized upon the amendment to protect business interests, while down playing its racial objectives. State laws setting minimum wages and hours, for example, were initially declared violations of the due process "freedom of contract." More recently, the phrase "equal protection of the laws," long considered vague and toothless, has been dusted off to nullify a whole battery of practices not directly contemplated by the amendment's framers: malapportioned legislatures, residency requirements for voting and welfare, even some sex discrimination...