CSU strike averted after tentative agreement
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Negotiators for the California State University system and its faculty members have reached a tentative salary agreement, averting a five-day strike that was set to begin next week and would have affected 460,000 students across 23 campuses, the two sides said Thursday.
Details of the deal between CSU and the California Faculty Association will be released Friday. The announcement of an agreement comes on the heels of a neutral fact-finder’s report that found faculty members were entitled to a larger salary increase than the 2 percent raise that CSU officials had offered.
Union leaders postponed the strike set for next Wednesday through Friday and April 18-19, pending approval of the agreement by the union’s board and members. If approved, the deal will go before the CSU Board of Trustees at its May meeting.
The strike would have been the first of its kind in the university’s history. With 23,000 instructors, librarians, counselors and athletic coaches represented by the union, picket lines would have brought the campuses to a standstill.
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