September 17, 2009
Professors and Picket Signs: When a Strike Seems Like the Only Choice
Jim West
On Labor Day in Detroit, striking Oakland U. professors carried picket signs in the city's parade.
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Jim West
On Labor Day in Detroit, striking Oakland U. professors carried picket signs in the city's parade.
On the day before classes were set to begin for the current semester at Oakland University, near Detroit, months of negotiating had yet to yield a new contract for faculty members. So the campus chapter of the American Association of University Professors did what it has typically done when negotiations go down to the wire: The members voted on whether to strike.
The result, overwhelmingly in favor, gave the union's bargaining team needed leverage during negotiations. But the
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