The Chronicle News Blog: Tentative Deal on Faculty Contract Is Reached at Eastern Michigan U.
Eastern Michigan University has reached a tentative contract agreement with its faculty union, following seven months of failed negotiations and a 12-day strike that rang in the academic year. According to the Eastern Echo, a campus newspaper, the administration and the union used an independent fact finder’s report, released last week, as their guide toward reaching the agreement. Following the fact finder’s recommendations, the tentative contract largely meets the union’s salary demands, but it satisfies one of the administration’s conditions by requiring union members to pay more of their health-care costs. Members of the union, a chapter of the American Association of University Professors, are scheduled to vote on the tentative contract on April 20. The university’s Board of Regents must also approve the deal for it to become official. —John Gravois
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