August 29, 2005
Youngstown State University’s faculty union ratified a new contract proposal from the university Sunday evening, ensuring that instructors would be in front of their classrooms when the fall semester begins this morning. Early this morning, the university also reached agreement with more than 400 secretaries, computer programmers and other classified employees, ending their strike of more than a week
By a vote of 182 to 119, the members of the Youngstown State chapter of the Ohio Education Association ratified the contract by secret ballot Sunday evening, according to Bob Hogue, an associate professor of computer science and information systems and the union’s first vice president.