UPDATED: Tues., May 4, 1:55 p.m. . The historic Oregon Tech faculty strike ended early this morning. After nearly 18 months of negotiations, Oregon Tech
Union sends Oregon Tech faculty back to work with sellout agreement
On Tuesday, Oregon Institute of Technology (OIT) and the local chapter of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) reached a tentative agreement to end an eight-day strike of roughly 158 faculty members.
Faculty voted by 92 percent to authorize the strike in early April after more than one year of negotiations failed to reach an agreement on basic demands for “fair wages, secure benefits, and a reasonable and clearly defined workload.” A variety of maneuvers by the university dragged out the bargaining process before the strike was finally started on April 26.
Faculty Report Threats and Hate Mail After Appearing in ‘Campus Reform’ Articles
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A year and a half ago, Isaac Kamola, a political scientist at Connecticut’s Trinity College, heard about a friend who received such severe threats after appearing in a
Campus Reform article that she needed security to escort her on and off campus. He was familiar with the conservative news site and its mission to expose “liberal bias and abuse” in higher education, and he decided to study it.
Kamola and the research assistants he hired reviewed more than 1,500 articles the site published in 2020 and identified about 338 faculty members who appeared in them. The researchers then worked with the American Association of University Professors to survey the faculty members. The findings were
After historic strike, Oregon Tech faculty reach labor deal with university
The strike, the first ever at a public Oregon university, capped off more than 500 days of negotiations. Author: Maggie Vespa Updated: 7:24 PM PDT May 4, 2021
WILSONVILLE, Ore. After eight days on strike and more than 500 days in negotiations, the union representing faculty at the Oregon Institute of Technology (OIT) reached a tentative labor agreement with the university. The email to KGW came around 1 a.m. Tuesday.
“We have a contract,” wrote vice president for institutional advancement Ken Fincher.
The five-year contract begins retroactively in 2020 and lasts through June 2025. It still needs to be ratified by union members, OIT’s chapter of the American Association of University Professors.
Classes could resume as soon as Wednesday morning.
UPDATED: Tues., May 4, 1:55 p.m. . The historic Oregon Tech faculty strike ended early this morning.
After nearly 18 months of negotiations, Oregon Tech and its faculty union have finally settled on a tentative contract.
The union Oregon Tech - American Association of University Professors officially reached the agreement with the administration on a contract early Tuesday morning.
In an early morning email, the union celebrated what representatives see as a significant progress toward fair compensation.
Faculty pushed for secure benefits, fair compensation and a sustainable workload. According to the union, the contract calls for benefits to be secured for the duration of the contract and includes the right to bargain over any proposed changes that impact working conditions. The contract also lays out protection for saying no to excess workload assignments.