March 3, 2000

Miami-Dade Faculty Approves First Contract

By ALISON SCHNEIDER

One of the most bitter union fights in academe has drawn to a close. On January 31, after two fraught years at the bargaining table, professors at Miami-Dade Community College approved their first contract.

Full-time professors ratified the contract by a vote of 381 to 88, said Mark Richard, president of the United Faculty of Miami-Dade College, an affiliate of the American Federation of Teachers.

Professors and administrators had clashed on almost

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