Non-Tenure-Track Instructors Reach Tentative Contract Deal With Western Michigan U.

A union that represents about 400 non-tenure-track instructors and adjunct faculty members at Western Michigan University says it has reached a tentative agreement for its first contract with the institution, according to the Associated Press and an announcement by the American Federation of Teachers’ Faculty and College Excellence campaign. The union, the Professional Instructors Organization, is affiliated with the AFT and was approved in a vote last summer. While details of the contract will not be announced until after it is ratified by union members and the university’s governing board, the union’s president, Karl Schrock, said the deal would improve working conditions. “We have been able to secure modest gains on all fronts,” he said in the AFT campaign’s announcement.