Kent State Professors Voting on Potential Strike
POSTED: 10:19 am EDT July 28, 2005
UPDATED: 1:29 pm EDT July 28, 2005
KENT, Ohio — Kent State University faculty members who have been working without a contract for nearly a year are voting on whether to authorize a strike, NewsChannel5 reported.
The voting by mail ends next Wednesday.
Members of the Kent chapter of the American Association of University Professors rejected a tentative agreement reached in June.
Kent State spokesman Scott Rainone said the university has every intention of starting classes on Aug. 29. He declined to talk about any contingency plan the school might have.
Physics professor Michael Lee, who is chairman of the union’s action committee, said members objected to a provision in the tentative agreement requiring them to pay half of any increases in health care costs.
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