Temple U. Agrees to Negotiate With Teaching Assistants' Union

Six months after its teaching assistants voted overwhelmingly to unionize, Temple University has agreed to drop a legal challenge to the union and negotiate a contract. The TA union, which represents 500 graduate assistants, is the first in Pennsylvania to win recognition.

The recognition, which Temple's Board of Trustees approved last month, came after the union agreed to take certain issues off the bargaining table. The scope-of-bargaining agreement is similar to one that broke a

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