Portland State University’s part-time faculty union reached an agreement with the university Friday regarding professor pay, after nine months of salary negotiations and almost a month of mediation.

According to a university statement, the part-time faculty union agreed on a tentative salary increase of five percent for the 2007-2008 academic year and another five percent increase for 2008-2009.

Disagreements over pay came to a head at the end of January when the Portland State chapter of the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) Local 3571, called the PSU Faculty Association, announced they would seek mediation over what leaders said was a stressful and negative collective bargaining process between AFT and PSU. Meditation is one of the steps necessary before faculty can strike.

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