Word: strike
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Most Boston University (B.U.) students returned to classes yesterday after a nine-day faculty strike, but many professors moved their classes outdoors or off campus to avoid crossing picket lines of still-striking clerical workers and librarians...
...faculty union officially ended its strike Friday night when its members ratified a three-year contract. However, many faculty members said they would honor the picket lines of the 800 clerical workers and 20 librarians, who are still on strike demanding that the university recognize their unions and meet with them for contract negotiations...
Yesterday was the first day of classes since the faculty strike ended, because B.U. remained closed Monday in observance of Patriots...
...Taking a moral stance on racial apartheid in South Africa, certainly one concern of international importance, is one thing, but placing it on the same level as the Afro-Am debate leaves the boycott devoid of any meaning and, rather, turns it into a farcical imitation of the 1969 strike...
...Coalition for Awareness and Action are the Asian American Association, Black Students Association, Democratic Socialist Organizing Committee, Coalition for a Democratic University, American Indians at Harvard, La Organizacion, Harvard-Radcliffe Raza, South African Solidarity Committee, Students Concerned About Women's Studies, and the Committee to Commemorate the '69 Strike...