Here is the response from AAUP-WSU:
Press Release Featuring Annotated Response to Larry Chan’s E-Mail
Here is an associated news story from WHIO:
2019-01-17 WSU Makes Offer to Negotiate; Faculty Union Declines
The article headline is potentially misleading: we are striking over the imposed contract, and their response is to offer to begin negotiating the next contract. Yes, if we had the imposed contract as the new baseline from which negotiations would proceed, we would be eager to begin negotiating from that position of rigged advantage, too. “Negotiate” is coming close to having no meaning whatsoever.
American Association of University Professors 