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Caryl A. Rivers, associate professor of journalism at B.U. said Tuesday she confronted the administration when she refused to cross the picket line during a secretarial strike last October...
Zinn, like Rivers, refused to cross picket lines during the secretarial strike. He said the university has been especially hard on those who have spoken out against the administration. He added that if the appeals court decides against the AAUP, faculty members will be "put out," but such a decision will not mean an end to faculty organization...
PICTURE A CONGRESSMAN who voted for the Kemp-Roth tax bill, which would have cut personal tax rates by a third, who voted against the Common Situs Picket bill, the most important piece of labor legislation in ten years, who supported the Vietnam war through the 1960s and who was elected by his GOP peers to the chairmanship of the House Republican Conference...
...even in the past three years, the AFL-CIO's committee on political education gave him an average rating of only 32 per cent, in part for his vote against the Common Situs bill, a measure that would have allowed unions with a greivance against one contractor to picket all the contractors on the same construction site. There aren't many unions in northwestern Illinois...
...about as much as management seemed willing to grant the lesser dancers all together in raises. So bitter were feelings that the company canceled performances, while superstars like Gelsey Kirkland joined the picket line. Last week. Godunov complicated things by abruptly resigning from the A.B.T. before ever dancing a single pas because he had become an issue. Not so, insisted the dancers in a group note urging him to reconsider and requesting "the honor and privilege of being your friends." Balletomanes are awaiting the next act with understandable interest...