Activist Academics Oust Leadership of CUNY's Faculty Union

A new activist faction of the City University of New York's faculty union won nearly all of the group's leadership posts in an election last month -- ousting an old guard that had reigned for two decades.

The New Caucus, as the group is called, includes well-known scholars like Stanley Aronowitz and Blanche Wiesen Cook. It campaigned on a platform of invigorating the union and taking on the state's political establishment.

CUNY's union, the Professional

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