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After eight long months, smokers on 14 college campuses in Pennsylvania can light up once again.
Jump to full article: The Chronicle of Higher Education, 2009-05-27
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Intro: Pennsylvania’s Labor Relations Board last week overturned a new policy that had banned smoking -- both indoors and outside -- across the 14 universities in the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education, The Patriot-News, a Harrisburg newspaper, reported. The labor board, reversing a ruling by a hearing examiner, said that government and other public-sector employers, including colleges and schools, had no authority to prohibit smoking without negotiating the matter with, and gaining the consent of, their unions.
Last September the system's chancellor, John Cavanaugh, informed the 14 universities that a new state law banning smoking in public places would apply to their campuses as well, including outdoors. The Association of Pennsylvania State College and University Faculties objected to the new policy and filed a grievance.
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