Word: strike
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Afro-American Studies' birth at Harvard was indeed painful. The department, created in the aftermath of the Harvard strike of 1969, can't seem to shake that era's legacy of tension, fear and bitterness. Even the Faculty vote establishing the department sparked a major controversy, for the body had committed the exceptionally rare action of disregarding a committee recommendation...
Boston University (B.U.) clerical workers, on strike for more than a week, will vote tomorrow on a two-year contract they tentatively accepted Tuesday night...
Rahke said yesterday, however, that the strike did affect the university, because the impact of missing workers in the different departments snowballed. "We made B.U. budge," she said...
Most workers were optimistic that the strike would end soon. "Things at the school seem to be running on schedule, but much of the internal paperwork has slowed down," union member Judy Riordan said yesterday...
...faculty, which settled with the administration last spring after a strike, has had trouble since then, Knox said. "B.U. has ignored the contract--almost every grievance has been sent to arbitration," she said...