Administrators and the faculty union at William Rainey Harper College, a two-year institution near Chicago, reached a tentative agreement on Saturday on a new four-year contract, averting a strike by instructors, the Chicago Tribune reported. Classes, which had been canceled for this week on Friday, are to resume on Tuesday. College officials declined to release details of the agreement.
Perry Buckley, president of the Cook County College Teachers Union, said full-time faculty members would look at the proposal today and vote on it on Wednesday. “We’re happy with it, and I am recommending that the teachers accept it,” Mr. Buckley said. “There was movement on salary. And we’re happy with that. I can’t get specific now. We need to let the teachers take a look at it first.”
