Word: union
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Boston University (B.U.) has been a minefield of labor blow-ups for five years, ever since it became the first major private university in the country with a faculty union. A lengthy strike last April by professors, secretaries and librarians ended with a contract faculty officials said would end the problems...
This week, however, new faculty complaints cropped up. The faculty union filed grievances charging that B.U. is illegally terminating the contracts of most of its junior professors...
...grievances, filed Monday with the university deans, accused the adminstration of systematically punishing professors active in the union by not granting them merit salary increases...
...union claimed pink slips and denials of salary increases violated the contract between the faculty and the trustees...
...union counters that the administration inflates the number of junior faculty at B.U. to give the impression that 60 terminations is only a small proportion...