Last Year, Employees at Your Local Community College Were on Strike

question 148

True/False

Last year, employees at your local community college were on strike. Very few students were crossing the picket line. In fact, the postal employees refused to deliver mail there claiming that they were honoring the strike for their fellow service union members. The postal employees were participating in a voluntary secondary boycott.

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Neoliberalism

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Functional Autonomy

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