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Montana State U profs vote to unionize

Posted on April 16, 2009 by | Comments Off on Montana State U profs vote to unionize

FACE: Clean Sweep in Montana

The votes have been counted and the Montana State University-Bozeman faculty, tenure-track and adjunct, have made it clear that they want a union. With this vote, MEA-MFT, the state affiliate of the AFT and the National Education Association, now represents all faculty in the public colleges and universities of Montana. That’s what we call “union density”!

Bozeman Daily Chronicle: MSU faculty votes to join union

The faculty at Montana State University voted Tuesday for the first time in history to join a union.

The vote was close among tenured and tenure-track faculty n 168 to 156 in favor of unionization, or 52 to 48 percent.

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Professor Loses Discrimination Case Against Montana State U.

Posted on April 8, 2009 by | Comments Off on Professor Loses Discrimination Case Against Montana State U.

Bozeman Daily Chronicle: MSU prevails in gender discrimination lawsuit

A jury of eight women and four men ruled against a female Montana State University professor in Gallatin County District Court Friday after a ten-day trial in which the university’s promotion and pay policies were challenged based on allegations that the engineering professor was paid less than her male counterparts.

The jury was asked to determine whether tenured engineering professor Aleksandra Vinogradov was discriminated against because she is a woman and the discrimination was retaliation for complaining about her pay. Vinogradov was the first woman to be granted a tenured professorship in the university’s engineering department and was the only female professor there for several years.

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