Portland State University reached a tentative agreement last Friday with its part-time-faculty union after nine months of pay negotiations and nearly a month of mediation, according to the Vanguard, the university’s student newspaper:
According to a university statement, the part-time faculty union agreed on a tentative salary increase of 5 percent for the 2007-8 academic year and another 5 percent increase for 2008-9.
Disagreements over pay came to a head at the end of January when the Portland State chapter of the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) Local 3571, called the PSU Faculty Association, announced they would seek mediation over what leaders said was a stressful and negative collective bargaining process between AFT and PSU. Meditation is one of the steps necessary before faculty can strike.
On February 14, part-time faculty and supporters picketed on campus in support of higher wages.
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