November 5, 1999

A Faculty Union Uses the Web as a Tool in a Labor Dispute

By KELLY McCOLLUM

Some Pennsylvania professors have created a distance-education course that they hope teaches skills their students won't need to use: PK101 -- "Introduction to Picketing."

The on-line tutorial, which is intended for the professors' colleagues and which offers tips on protest etiquette, is one way that faculty members in Pennsylvania have used the World-Wide Web to organize -- and prepare for a possible strike -- during their year-long contract negotiations

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