Campus demonstrators pressure NSU officials: Union organizers, newly elected officials, and campus workers staged a symbolic protest against working conditions at Nova Southeastern University as the.

From: Miami Herald (Miami, Florida) | Date: November 15, 2006 | Copyright information

Byline: Trenton Daniel

Nov. 15--Campus workers at Nova Southeastern University and newly elected officials waged a symbolic protest Tuesday, donning gardener gloves and using rakes to pull weeds. But when a few of the protesters led by the Service Employees International Union entered a building, NSU officials said they had gone too far with their "media show" and had disrupted school operations. "To go there was a mistake," said NSU spokesman David Dawson. "The...

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