October 21, 2005
Doctoring the Budget
As health-care costs rise, colleges struggle to keep relations with workers healthy
At 12:01 a.m. on August 16, an employment contract covering nonfaculty workers at Youngstown State University, in Ohio, expired, and 400 secretaries, computer programmers, skilled maintenance workers, and other employees went on strike. It was the first work stoppage by the union in Youngstown's 97-year history.
Exactly one week later, the university's contract with its 380 faculty members ran
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