Inside Higher Ed: Labor-management deal on health care
Many college administrators these days tell employees that one reason they can’t provide more money for salaries is that health insurance expenses keep rising. And many college employees don’t entirely trust the explanation.
Michigan State University has crafted an unusual approach to this conflict. Members of nine of the unions that represent workers at the university have agreed to link their salary increases to the cost increases faced by the university in health insurance. Michigan State administrators — along with a union leader — described the arrangement in Orlando Tuesday at the annual meeting of the College and University Professional Association for Human Resources
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