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The Other Side Of The Picket Line: Contract, Democracy, And Power In A Law School Classroom, Michael Fischl Jan 2007

The Other Side Of The Picket Line: Contract, Democracy, And Power In A Law School Classroom, Michael Fischl

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his essay - from a forthcoming symposium on teaching from the left in the NYU Review of Law & Social Change - offers an account of the successful union organizing campaign among custodial and landscaping workers at the University of Miami during the 2005-06 academic year, focusing in particular on the role played by faculty during the course of the campaign. It examines a fractious debate generated by faculty who held classes off campus in order to support the striking workers and the author's own decision to put the question of whether to honor the picket line to a vote …