Strike Settled, Oakland U. Professors Return to the Classroom

by E Wayne Ross on September 10, 2009

The Chronicle: Strike Settled, Oakland U. Professors Return to the Classroom

Professors at Oakland University are back in front of their classrooms, after round-the-clock negotiations between faculty members and the Michigan institution resulted in agreement on a tentative three-year contract early this morning.

Faculty members at the college had been on strike since last Thursday, the first day of the fall semester. The agreement came about after a judge ordered the faculty union and Oakland administrators to return to the bargaining table or face a hearing in which the university sought an injunction forcing faculty members to go back to work.