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The president of the AAUP faculty union at University of Bridgeport, from 1987 to 1991, offers a first-hand account of the circumstances leading to the fatal strike there. He refutes accusations that the union and its leadership destroyed the university and provides a dramatic, personal account of a faculty union under attack by union busters. The faculty, he argues, was resisting a concerted onslaught on traditional “faculty rights.” It fought desperately to stifle a retrograde revolution in higher education seeking the substitution of absolute “Management Rights” to traditional collegiality. He refers to faculty as the “soul and mind of a university,” and to administration as a necessary evil whose duty is primarily to assist the faculty in the accomplishment of the university's mission.
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Gerteiny, A.G. The Longest Faculty Strike in the History of U.S. Institutions of Higher Education: Perceptions of the Union President. Journal of Academic Ethics 1, 273–285 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1023/B:JAET.0000014581.61575.b5
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1023/B:JAET.0000014581.61575.b5