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The strike is to begin Wednesday morning due to, "the EMU Administration’s repeated failure to bargain in good faith and reach common ground on a new labor agreement," the union said in a release.
A spokesperson for the Eastern Michigan University Chapter of the American Association of University Professors says 91% of the vote was in favor of going out on strike starting tomorrow.
The EMU faculty union said 91% of its members voted Tuesday night to go on strike. A university spokesman accuses the faculty union of voting to “walk out” on EMU students one week into the fall semester.
Just 10 days into the new fall semester, classrooms will likely be empty as 500 faculty members at Eastern Michigan University are on strike.
Eastern Michigan's faculty union voted Tuesday night to strike as contract talks reached a stalemate, multiple faculty members told the Free Press.