Excerpt from the Dayton Daily News
UPDATE:
Wright State faculty union, the AAUP-WSU announced in a press release late Saturday evening that they will continue the strike on Monday after negotiations with the Wright State University Trustees failed to end the contract dispute.
“We strike to preserve quality education above all,” said AAUP-WSU President Martin Kich.
FIRST REPORT:
The Wright State University board of trustees will meet Sunday to discuss collective bargaining, two days after the school’s administration made a contract offer to the faculty union that would extend a deal through 2023.
A meeting notice says the board will meet in a public session and then go into an executive session.
During a negotiating session Friday afternoon, the administration offered the union a contract that would maintain previous contract language when it comes to layoffs and workload and would limit possible furlough days to one per semester, WSU spokesman Seth Bauguess said. The offer would maintain summer teaching rotations for professors, though they would receive less money for them.
If the union accepts the offer, it would also guarantee up to a 2.5 percent pay raise for union faculty each year of the final two years of the contract. The offer is contingent on members of the Wright State chapter of the American Association of University Professors joining the school’s uniform health care plan.
Both sides have said that health care remains at the center of the ongoing labor dispute.
Union faculty have been on strike for 12 days, the longest in state history. They have been picketing at entrances to campus along Colonel Glenn Highway.
AAUP-WSU leaders have long said that agreeing to the administration’s terms for health care would eliminate their right to bargaining for health benefits.
