February 1979 – Concerned Educators Against Forced Unionism

I crossed a picket line and became an ex-professor

By Concerned Educators Against Forced Unionism | February 16, 1979

By RONALD L. TROWBRIDGE (NATIONAL REVIEW, 2/16/1979) WAS, OF COURSE, aware of the nasty things that can happen when individuals cross picket lines, but I had imagined—naively—that strikes by broad-minded academic intellectuals would be different. When I crossed a faculty picket line last fall at Eastern Michigan University, I suffered the depressing revelation of seeing…