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July 1, 2007
Talks to Resume Between Professors and Pennsylvania System
Contract talks between faculty members and Pennsylvania’s 14 state-owned universities will resume on Monday morning after a state mediator asked the faculty union to put off a strike for 24 hours. The Associated Press reported that talks had broken down late this afternoon after union negotiators rejected the latest offer from the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education.
The Association of Pennsylvania State College and University Faculties, which represents the system’s 5,500 faculty members, had been prepared to call a strike as early as Monday but agreed to return to the bargaining table instead. The two sides have been at odds over a pay increase, as well as over the premium for health insurance that faculty members pay. A faculty walkout could affect 25,000 summer students.
The union also represents 350 nonfaculty coaches, who had also threatened to strike but reached a tentative contract agreement with the system late last week. —Karin Fischer
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We all sincerely hope that the negotiators will reach an agreement. A strike would be extremely destructive to the System. The news coverage of a strike surely would be unfavorable to the faculty and the increased scrutiny by the press of conditions under which the faculty currently work (better than almost all wage earning Americans) can only hurt them in the end. PJT
— Philip J Tramdack Jul 2, 07:41 AM #
I graduated (undergrad) from one of the universities in the Pennsylvania state system. It seems to me that the faculty threaten to strike almost every summer. The faculty I had were terrific and very well paid. Their annual threat to strike hurts the students and the schools in the state system. Knock it off, count your blessings, and get to work. You don’t know how good you have it!
— Ken Jul 2, 01:30 PM #
The AP report incorrectly implies that the faculty union, APSCUF, walked out of negotiations in rejection of the PASSHE offer. Actually, APSCUF made a counter offer and PASSHE requested an extension in order to consider it.
— Tracy Whitford Jul 2, 04:34 PM #