From the AAUP-WSU News Release
The longest strike in higher education in Ohio history cannot be ended until the Wright State Board of Trustees and administration agree to negotiate in good faith.
What: Striking faculty members and Wright State students will speak at a news conference about the crisis in student education created by the unwillingness of the university administration and Trustees to reach a mutually agreed upon contract.
The Wright State Faculty is calling on state leaders, including Governor Mike DeWine and Chancellor Randy Gardner, to intervene with the Wright State administration and Board of Trustees to broker a reasonable agreement that will preserve the faculty’s role in academic governance and guarantee its legal right to negotiate a collective bargaining agreement.
The Trustees unilaterally imposed a contract on January 4. Since then, they rejected faculty proposals of $8 million in concessions and even have failed to respond to the faculty’s most recent offer to negotiate on health care, a right protected by state law. The Trustees issued a statement that they would consider no further changes to the contract. February 8 marks the 18th day of the strike.
When: Friday, February 8, 10:30 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. Where: The Ladies’ Gallery in the Ohio Statehouse, 1 Capitol Square, Columbus, Ohio
About AAUP-WSU
AAUP-WSU – the American Association of University Professors, Wright State University Chapter – is the union representing all full-time WSU faculty (excepting only administrators) with appointments in the university’s primary academic colleges on both the Dayton and Celina campuses. [These colleges are the Colleges of Engineering and Computer Science; Education and Human Services; Liberal Arts; Nursing and Health; Science and Mathematics; the Lake Campus; and the Raj Soin College of Business.]
Collective bargaining for WSU’s tenured and tenure-eligible faculty began in spring 1998 and was expanded to include non-tenure-eligible faculty in fall 2012, both via secret ballot votes overseen by Ohio’s State Employment Relations Board.
About AAUP
The mission of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) is to advance academic freedom and shared governance; to define fundamental professional values and standards for higher education; to promote the economic security of faculty, academic professionals, graduate students, post‐doctoral fellows, and all those engaged in teaching and research in higher education; to help the higher education community organize to make our goals a reality; and to ensure higher education’s contribution to the common good. Founded in 1915, the AAUP has helped to shape American higher education by developing the standards and procedures that maintain quality in education and academic freedom in this country’s colleges and universities.
