AP: Agreement reached to avert faculty walkout at Western Oregon
Teachers and administrators at Western Oregon University agreed to contract terms Monday to avert the first faculty walkout in the state’s higher education system.
Details of the contract were not immediately released.
Faculty members had scheduled a strike for Wednesday.
Leaders of the faculty local of the American Federation of Teachers said the membership would meet Monday to discuss the contract. But a formal ratification voted was expected to take some days. Union leaders said they were confident the contract would be approved.
Both sides said they were glad there wouldn’t be a strike. Although there have been walkouts among non-teaching staff members of the state’s higher education system, teachers have never gone on strike, officials said.
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