Word: union
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...voters to raise their own income taxes and defeat a referendum to sell Muny Light; he finally won the approval of a hostile city council of his own plan to repay the banks. But in the primary October 2, Kucinich ran 11,228 votes behind Voinovich. Kucinich has heavy union support, but Voinovich is outspending him more than two to one. The deciding factor in the run-off may turn out to be the death of Voinovich's nine-year-old daughter, who was hit by a van October 8. The tragedy caused the Lieutenant Governor to spend less time...
Besides Levin and Zinn, the faculty members involved are Andrew S. Dibner, Fritz Ringer, and Caryl Rivers. Ringer was president of the faculty union last year and Zinn chaired the committee that organized a strike by B.U.'s faculty, secretaries and librarians last spring...
James A. Garland, chairman of the B.U. chapter of the American Association of University Pofessors, said yesterday the faculty union will provide moral and legal support to all six professors. Emphasizing that the tenure system was designed to prevent universities from penalizing outspoken professors, Garland said firing the BU. professors "would be a terrible violation of academic freedom...
Relations between the university and the faculty have been strained since 1975, when the faculty unionized over the heated objection of B.U. President John R. Silber. Faculty activists charge that Silber has tried to destroy the union, and 25 professors recently formed a committee seeking to oust Silber...
...just to discuss the general state of affairs between the two institutions. More specifically, many administrators, including members of the Committee on Houses and Undergraduate Life, urged the committee to sit down last year when the students grew angry about the method of term bill funding for the Radcliffe Union of Students (RUS). Rosovsky, who says the committee's mandate is to adjudicate differences between Harvard and Radcliffe, says that "with the exception of the RUS fee, there haven't been any differences." Horner recalls when CHUL referred the RUS question to the committee. "It's not within the rubric...