December 9, 2005

Labor Strife Hits Labor-Studies Dept. at UMass-Amherst; CUNY to Hire 10 Demographers

By JOHN GRAVOIS and PIPER FOGG

LABOR'S LOVE LOST: The labor-studies department at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst has recently become an object lesson in labor strife. Professors in the department have filed two grievances against their university's administration, saying it has unfairly barred them from filling a full-time faculty position in their department that has stood vacant for the past five years.

In addition, the labor professors say their department, called the Labor Center, has lost three

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