Posted on 10/19/2016 4:21:18 AM PDT by Olog-hai
Faculty at 14 Pennsylvania state universities went on strike Wednesday morning, affecting more than 100,000 students, after contract negotiations between the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education and the faculty union hit an impasse.
The Association of Pennsylvania State College and University Faculties announced on its website that its members went on strike at 5 a.m. because no agreement could be reached. The union represents more than 5,000 faculty and coaches across the state, and a walkout was expected to halt classes midsemester. […]
This is the first strike in the system’s 34-year history.
The union includes faculty from Bloomsburg, California, Cheyney, Clarion, East Stroudsburg, Edinboro, Indiana, Kutztown, Lock Haven, Mansfield, Millersville, Shippensburg, Slippery Rock and West Chester universities of Pennsylvania. State-related schools, Penn State, Pitt, Temple and Lincoln, are not affected. …
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Correction - NONE of those profs are worth what they are getting paid!
Really! This is an opportunity to seize! Put all these lefty perfessers in the unemployment line. Incentivize private investment in educational opportunities in reality instead of bizarre crap. Gender studies. How about only subsidizing education loans to degrees that have the word “engineering” or physics for five years.
How convenient. Just in time to help with the dem voter fraud effort in PA.
Nice list of what we used to call State Teacher’s colleges.
These are colleges people went to when the couldn’t get into a REAL university.
Actually, they are overpaying James Franklin and don’t want to have to fire him after Saturday night if the Buckeyes come to town and humiliate his University, again.
This doesn’t affect Penn State.
Ain’t government schools great???
Ironic, I guess, that THE Pennsylvania State University is not a “Pennsylvania state university.”
Fire all of them!
“my kid sure will...she is trying to finish up nursing school this year...geez”
That is the leverage the faculty members are hoping will be brought to bear to arrive at a satisfactory settlement.
I think you mean University of Pennsylvania is not a state school. Penn State is a state school.
No, I mean what I said. Penn State and Pitt are, in state law, “state-related” schools. This strike affects the institutions that are, in law, “state universities.”
Penn State is not, legally, a “state university.” It is a “state-related” university.
It is a ‘land grant university’, same as Michigan State and many others. Interesting that faculty would have different contracts.
The problem is that most of these “Pennsylvania state universities” really should be called “Pennsylvania state colleges”, and were state teachers’ colleges at one time.
Too many “colleges” now use “university” to inflate their reputation.
This isn’t a matter of Federal law, but of Pennsylvania law, which allows broad bargaining rights for employees of the Commonwealth and its political subdivisions.
The problem is that most of these “Pennsylvania state universities” really should be called “Pennsylvania state colleges”, and were state teachers’ colleges at one time.
Too many “colleges” now use “university” to inflate their reputation.
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That was a federal tuition aid issue from the Clinton era. More money and all. That is why there is Shoeshine University and car repair.
Students in pa getting smarter by the minute!
went on strike
I am sure they demanding that teachers do a better job educating our youth...?
As Sandy Alderson said about the 1999 MLB umpires strike: “This is either a threat to be ignored or an offer to be accepted.”
As I understand it, the state schools answer directly to the state, their employees are state employees. The “state-related” schools are happy to receive subsidies from the state gov’t, but are their own independent (well, quasi-independent) entities.
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