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...decade, even though only half the states allow state employees, including faculty at public universities, to bargain collectively, there were 750 unionized campuses. The vast majority were public institutions. Some private college faculties had been organized too. But in 1980 a Supreme Court decision on faculty unionization at Yeshiva University in New York City discouraged further efforts. The court held that Yeshiva professors are not employees but managers shaping school policy and thus not protected by federal labor law. As a result, administrators at many other private colleges do not feel compelled to bargain...
...tenacious 2,500 people still at Yamit have all been offered generous Israeli government compensation for leaving, and most have accepted. But some are still obdurate. Students at the town's yeshiva have hinted that they may barricade themselves inside their dormitory when the deadline comes. Says Tsuriel Biblil, 24: "I won't kill any soldiers, but I won't let anyone take me from here...
...public interest projects, major and modest. When Manhattan College, a Catholic institution, needed money recently, its fund-raising load was carried by GM's Thomas Aquinas Murphy, DeButts and Shapiro. A few months earlier the same three men, a neatly balanced ticket, did the same thing for Yeshiva University, a Jewish institution. They and others are prime movers of the Business Roundtable, which has replaced some more regressive groups as the premier public policy arm of corporate America. A few years ago, his peers selected Irv Shapiro to head the Roundtable. When Shapiro, who is a Jew, a Democrat...
...When Yeshiva Student Jesper Jehoshua Sloma, 23, was killed by an Arab sniper last month in Hebron on Israel's occupied West Bank, a three-doctor panel at Jerusalem's Hadassah Hospital authorized the transplant of his kidneys to save two patients. Many Israelis were incensed that one of the recipients was a twelve-year-old Arab girl wearing a Palestine Liberation Organization bracelet, but the transplant particularly offended many Orthodox Jews. To them, religious law forbids tampering with corpses in any way, either by transplants or autopsies, and last week they pursued their campaign to outlaw autopsies...
...decision applies only to New York's Yeshiva University, but B.U. has a similar case pending before the Supreme Court. The decision ruled that faculty members at private universities are "managerial" employees whose attempts to unionize do not apply to the National Labor Relations...