Excerpt from the Dayton Daily News
Wright State University’s faculty union will host a meeting at the Ohio Statehouse on Friday in an attempt to draw more attention to their ongoing strike.
Members of the Wright State chapter of the American Association of University Professors will host a press conference at 10:30 a.m. Friday in the ladies’ gallery of the Statehouse, according to a release sent out this morning by the group.
The AAUP-WSU is asking Gov. Mike DeWine and Ohio Higher Education Chancellor Randy Gardner to help broker an agreement between the school’s administration and faculty union.
Both DeWine’s and Gardner’s offices have said they are monitoring the strike. Gardner was on campus earlier this week to talk to students about the strike.
AAUP-WSU members have been on strike for 17 days now in what may already be the longest faculty strike in Ohio’s history. Faculty have been picketing outside the entrances to campus along Colonel Glenn Highway since Jan. 22.
