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Michigan Think Tank Asks 3 Universities for Labor Professors’ E-Mails

Posted on March 29, 2011 by | Comments Off on Michigan Think Tank Asks 3 Universities for Labor Professors’ E-Mails

The Chronicle: Michigan Think Tank Asks 3 Universities for Labor Professors’ E-Mails

A free market-oriented think tank in Michigan has sent the state’s three largest public universities open-records requests for any e-mails from their labor-studies faculty members dealing with the debate over collective bargaining in Wisconsin.

The Mackinac Center for Public Policy, based in Midland, Mich., sent the requests on Friday to labor-studies centers at Michigan State University, the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, and Wayne State University. The boilerplate wording on the requests, as first reported on Tuesday by the blog Talking Points Memo, asks the universities to provide all e-mails from the employees and contractors of their labor-studies centers containing the words “Scott Walker,” “Wisconsin,” “Madison,” and “Maddow,” in reference to Rachel Maddow, the liberal commentator on MSNBC. Mr. Walker is the Republican governor of Wisconsin.

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Michigan State Ends Retiree Health Benefits for New HIres

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Lansing State Journal: Michigan State Ends Retiree Health Benefits for New HIres

EAST LANSING — Michigan State University will not offer retiree health benefits to any new faculty or staff beginning this summer, the university announced today.

According to a statement issued this afternoon, the change will not affect faculty and staff hired before July 1, 2010, and commitments already made to new hires will be honored.

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

Posted on September 21, 2009 by | Comments Off on Professors and Picket Signs: When a Strike Seems Like the Only Choice

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.

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Judge orders Oakland University, union back to table

Posted on September 9, 2009 by | Comments Off on Judge orders Oakland University, union back to table

Detroit Free Press: Judge orders Oakland University, union back to table

An Oakland County Circuit Court judge has ordered round-the-clock negotiations between Oakland University and the American Association of University Professors.

If the sides can’t reach an agreement by 10 a.m. Thursday, Judge Edward Sosnick said, he will hold a court hearing on the university’s request for a preliminary injunction. The university has called the strike by its faculty “illegal” and said it has caused “irreparable harm” to students and parents.

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Oakland University, union meet with judge on strike

Posted on September 9, 2009 by | Comments Off on Oakland University, union meet with judge on strike

Detroit Free Press: Oakland University, union meet with judge on strike

Representatives for Oakland University and the American Association of University Professors are talking with Oakland County Circuit Court Judge Edward Sosnick behind closed doors this morning in an attempt to settle the labor dispute that has now canceled classes for a fourth day.

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Oakland U. to Ask Judge to Order Striking Professors Back to Work

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The Chronicle: Oakland U. to Ask Judge to Order Striking Professors Back to Work

Administrators at Oakland University, the Michigan institution where classes have been canceled since
Thursday because of a faculty strike, plan to ask a state judge to order professors back to work. The university’s chapter of the American Association of University professors said on its Web site that, a few hours before dawn today, talks held over the Labor Day weekend yielded a settlement agreement that the union’s bargaining team has “no authority to sign.” Negotiators for both sides will meet with a state mediator this afternoon.

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Economic conditions affect jobs of teachers across county

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The Flint Journal: Economic conditions affect jobs of teachers across county

GENESEE COUNTY, Michigan — Local districts are clinging to their teachers and trying to avoid layoffs as enrollment numbers and funding lag.

While the Flint School District is taking a big hit, laying off 257 teachers in April, most local school systems are trying to avoid cutting instructors.

In Flint, the layoffs were intended to help avoid a $20-million budget deficit. On June 17, the Flint Board of education called back 73 teachers.

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Jackson Community College faculty union planning to picket board meeting

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The Jackson Citizen: Jackson Community College faculty union planning to picket board meeting

Jackson Community College’s faculty union plans to picket Monday’s Board of Trustees meeting to bring attention to its lack of a new contract and concerns about the number of full-time faculty on campus.

The board said Friday in a statement it was surprised by the JCC Faculty Association’s plans to picket and responded to what the union calls “major issues” dividing the two sides.

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