State school salaries are lagging behind other schools both statewide and nationally, and have consistently failed to keep up with inflation. The main sticking point is faculty and staff salaries. ![]() For the strike authorization vote next week, Wanko is ‘anticipating a strong showing.’ “It’s an attack on faculty self-governance,” said Wanko, who notes that progress in contract negotiations hasn’t been made in six months. Cheryl Wanko, the spokeswoman for the faculty at West Chester University, and an English professor at West Chester University, said she saw little progress at the April fourth meetings and conceded that the APSCUF and PASSHE are still a long ways off from deciding on a new contract. Should the APSCUF vote to authorize a strike, then by June 30, thousands of Pennsylvania state school system students could find themselves sitting at home rather than taking summer courses or preparing for the fall 2007 semester.ĭr. ![]() A vote is set next to approve a strike authorization in the event that negotiations breakdown in the long-standing contract dispute between the APSCUF faculty union and the PASSHE board of governors.
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