Professors and Picket Signs: When a Strike Seems Like the Only Choice

by E Wayne Ross on September 21, 2009

The Chronicle: Professors and Picket Signs: When a Strike Seems Like the Only Choice

On the day before classes were set to begin for the current semester at Oakland University, near Detroit, months of negotiating had yet to yield a new contract for faculty members. So the campus chapter of the American Association of University Professors did what it has typically done when negotiations go down to the wire: The members voted on whether to strike.