Ohio: Your turn: Data point to unionization as ‘move backward’ for OU

The Post: Your turn: Data point to unionization as ‘move backward’ for OU

Ohio University Faculty Senate is contemplating a resolution for collective bargaining. Pro-union faculty suggest collective bargaining will benefit faculty long-term. Unfortunately, data do not support this argument. Institutional Research Salary Study data demonstrate that 5-year cumulative salary increases at non-union schools are higher than union schools for all faculty ranks: Professors, 16 percent non-union versus 11 percent union; Associate Professors 13 percent union versus 10 percent union; Assistant Professors, 16 percent non-union versus 14 percent union. Faculty salary increases (%) at Ohio University often equal or exceed the salary increases (%) at other non-union universities in Ohio.

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