The Vermont Supreme Court last week rejected an appeal by a former lecturer of the University of Vermont over the decision of the university not to reappoint her. The lecturer had been a leader of efforts to unionize the faculty.
The Burlington Free Press reports that:
“The University of Vermont was within its rights not to reappoint a visiting professor who had been a leader in the school’s new faculty union, the Vermont Supreme Court has ruled.
Dawn Saunders taught economics as a visiting professor at UVM from 1995 to the spring of 2003. She was active in organizing the faculty to unionize and was a member of the negotiating team that hammered out the union’s first contract in February 2003.
University officials opposed the union’s formation, and that winter did not offer Saunders a new appointment for the following school year, ending her employment.
Saunders charged that her dismissal was retaliation for her union involvement, and grieved the university’s action to the Vermont Labor Relations Board.
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