Labor Battle Ends at Emerson College

A three-year standoff between administrators and the faculty union at Emerson College, in Boston, came to an end this month in a collective-bargaining agreement that shifted some powers of college governance away from the union in exchange for basic guarantees protecting the union's authority.

The compromise resolves a tense conflict that began in September 2003 when the college's president, Jacqueline W. Liebergott, told faculty members to either disband the union or give up their

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