October 26, 2001

Union Objects to Suspension of Librarian

By ANDREA L. FOSTER

A University of California System clerical union has filed a grievance with the University of California at Los Angeles on behalf of a university library assistant who was suspended last month for sending out a mass e-mail message that criticized U.S. foreign policy in the wake of the September 11 terrorist attacks.

The assistant, Jonnie A. Hargis, works in the reference and instructional-services department of the Charles E. Young Research Library. He said he had been suspended from

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