Detroit News: EMU professors ready to accept fact-finder’s recommendations
An independent fact-finder released a long-awaited report Monday that may finally put an end to a labor dispute between Eastern Michigan University and unionized professors.
Professors should receive their requested raises of 3.5 percent, 3 percent, 3.6 percent and 3.75 percent over four years, according to recommendations by the third-party fact-finder. But the professors should have to pitch in more for health care, as the EMU administration wanted, the report said.
The recommendations are fair, said Howard Bunsis, president of the EMU chapter of the American Association of University Professors. The administration had no comment Monday.
The professors had been working without a new contract for seven months. Once labor talks broke down, faculty went on strike for 14 days at the beginning of the school year, leading to the cancellation of about half of the classes.
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