Excerpt from the Dayton Daily News
Wright State University’s board of trustees will meet in private Friday to discuss collective bargaining at the end of what would be the first week of a faculty union strike.
The WSU board will meet in executive session at 2 p.m., Friday, in the Wright Brothers Room of the student union. Collective bargaining is the sole item listed on the agenda for the meeting.
During the meeting, the board will receive an update from president Cheryl Schrader and the administration’s negotiating team on where things stand, said board chairman Doug Fecher.
“It’s not a bad sign,” Fecher said of the meeting. “It’s for us to basically assess where we’re at and what we need to do to get this resolved.”
Members of the Wright State chapter of the American Association of University Professors have been on strike for three days now. Union members began picketing near the entrances to campus and the Nutter Center on Tuesday.
Classes have continued at the university during the strike, though some have been consolidated, moved online or taught by a substitute. President Cheryl Schrader, an engineer, has also returned to the classroom to teach too courses.
