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Article: `U' faculty looks to block regents; News of a proposed tenure code being considered by the regents has boosted union organization on the Twin Cities campuses as faculty members ponder use of labor law.(NEWS)
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- Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
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- September 7, 1996
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A union organizing movement that has sputtered along for several months picked up speed Friday as angry University of Minnesota faculty members tried to use labor law to block a controversial tenure code proposed Thursday by the Board of Regents.
The hope of the organizers, a group of professors known as the University Faculty Alliance, is that 30 percent of the Twin Cities faculty - 700 to 1,000 professors - will sign authorization cards. Those cards would not commit them to forming a union but would trigger an order from the Minnesota Bureau of Mediation Services preventing any change in employment conditions at the university.
That order, several ...
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