Adjunct Faculty at PSU Settle Contract After 10 Month Negotiation
IN JANUARY, THE Portland State University Faculty Association (PSUFA) Local 3571 and the PSU administration came to a tentative agreement on a proposed contract. Adjuncts, or part-time professors, have been without a contract since their previous one expired at the end of June 2003. Susan Fuhr, a PSUFA member who sits on the bargaining team and is a grievance steward estimated that it will take at least two weeks for the entire union membership to ratify the contract. “This is not a great victory for us, but at least some points of positive growth are occurring in these difficult […]