[Boston-editorial] new feature: The Emerson Student Strike

[Matthew Williams]

This is shorter than most of the articles we feature, but there still 
seemed to be enough good material here to warrant featuring it. -- Matt

The Emerson Student Strike
by Jake, trenchesfullofpoets (nospam) riseup.net

Last Wednesday and Thursday, Emerson students went on strike in support 
of our faculty union, struggling to keep their union contracts and 
shared governance. The professors have had a union for thirty years, 
but now as the administration takes steps to move the college towards 
becoming more of a corporation and less of a place of education, the 
administration is trying to bust the union. On Wednesday and Thursday, 
a large portion of the Emerson student body boycotted class. We had a 
march and rally of about 300 on Wednssday, and slightly more on 
Thursday. From what I've been able to figure most of the student 
population went on strike, but there's really no way of knowing exactly 
how many did, as a lot of teachers didn't mark boycotting students 
absent.

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22 Apr 2005 | Filed under: News / Education : Labor