California Faculty Association and Cal. State. University reach tentative contract settlement....

[mike_c]

Just days before beginning a strike, the largest four year university in America and the union representing 23,000 faculty members reached a tentative settlement.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/04/04/BAGIJP1FJK13.DTL

A labor showdown between the California State University system and its faculty union was averted Tuesday with a tentative accord on a new contract that provides a guaranteed pay increase of 20.7 percent over four years for professors, lecturers, coaches and librarians.

Negotiators for the CSU administration and faculty reached the agreement after 23 months of labor talks and mediation, as well the threat of faculty strikes on the system's 23 university campuses.

The proposed deal comes at a turbulent time in the history of the nation's largest four-year university system, which has been rocked in recent years by a series of student fee increases and a scandal over the CSU's compensation of executives.

The California Faculty Association plans to put the proposed contract to a vote of its 12,000 dues-paying members later this month, union president John Travis told reporters. If ratified by the faculty, it will then be submitted to the CSU's governing Board of Trustees for approval.

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[Omaha Steve]

1. A DUer is involved in this

I remember somebody saying they didn't want to strike (nobody does) but would do it. I just don't remember who said it.

[mike_c]

2. it was me....

We got a good contract. Well, it's tentative-- hasn't been ratified yet-- but it's a good agreement that goes far beyond the University's "final offer." Our bargaining team did a superlative job.