10.09.2003
Unions Want Contracts Funded
Patricia Markunas, a Salem State professor, in the Boston Globe:
"The past nine months have seen an unprecedented amount of attention paid to public higher education in Massachusetts. For better or worse, the governor's proposals on higher education reorganization jump-started numerous legislative hearings, dozens of news articles and editorials, national media coverage of the controversy over former University of Massachusetts president William Bulger, and intense public debate throughout the Commonwealth. Lost in the massive press coverage, the hours of legislative hearings, and the hundreds of meetings devoted to the system's strengths and weaknesses is a fundamental problem of trust, good faith, and fairness on the campuses: the failure of the Legislature to override the previous governor's veto of funding for 23 negotiated and executed collective bargaining agreements for faculty, administrators, and staff in the state's public higher education system..."
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"The past nine months have seen an unprecedented amount of attention paid to public higher education in Massachusetts. For better or worse, the governor's proposals on higher education reorganization jump-started numerous legislative hearings, dozens of news articles and editorials, national media coverage of the controversy over former University of Massachusetts president William Bulger, and intense public debate throughout the Commonwealth. Lost in the massive press coverage, the hours of legislative hearings, and the hundreds of meetings devoted to the system's strengths and weaknesses is a fundamental problem of trust, good faith, and fairness on the campuses: the failure of the Legislature to override the previous governor's veto of funding for 23 negotiated and executed collective bargaining agreements for faculty, administrators, and staff in the state's public higher education system..."
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