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Somerville councilors, community members voice support for Tufts full‑time lecturers amid contract dispute
Summary
Councilors and visiting lecturers described workload and pay concerns at Tufts University and showed widespread council support for a resolution backing full‑time lecturers seeking a fair contract.
Councilors and community members on Tuesday heard testimony from Tufts University lecturers who described what they called long-term salary and workload problems and asked the council to back their bargaining position.
Ted Simpson, a lecturer who said he has taught at Tufts for 22 years, and Brenna Heitzman, a senior lecturer in Romance Studies, testified about lecturers— workload, reliance on merit pay and difficulties keeping pace with rising…
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