Central Washington University faculty members say they’re underpaid compared with their peers at comparable institutions and have asked their union to push for higher pay, the Yakima Herald-Republic reports.
More than 180 professors staged a protest rally last Thursday, and contract negotiations, which began over the summer, have stalled over the pay issue, the reporter, James Joyce III, writes.
The union representing 150 CWU faculty members — the United Faculty of Central — argues that average faculty salaries at the university are far below those at comparable institutions in the state, “which ranged from $54,879 at Evergreen State College to $83,530 at the University of Washington in 2004-5, according to the state Higher Education Coordinating Board,” he writes.
The union also maintains “that salaries at the 8,000-student state school have not kept pace with peer institutions nationally. Over the past 10 years, average faculty salaries at Washington’s public universities generally have dropped in relation to salaries in other states,” Joyce writes.
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