American Association of University Professors
Until the strike ends, picketing will occur between 9:00 and 4:00 between the two entrances to the campus (A and B) along Col. Glenn Highway.
Everyone is welcome to join us on the line and in the strike headquarters in the Wingate.
1 February 2019
Sara Kilpatrick, Executive Director
Ohio Conference of the American Association of University Professors
222 East Town St., 2W
Columbus, OH 43215
Dear Director Kilpatrick,
The United Faculty of Central Ohio Technical College stand with the American Association of University Professors and its WSU chapter members in protecting your collective bargaining rights. We strongly urge the Schrader administration and the Wright State Board of Trustees to return to negotiations immediately.
The last best offer proposed by the WSU administration drastically diminishes shared governance, which is foundational for effective institutions of higher education. Considering the extensive financial missteps of the WSU administration, a stronger faculty voice, not a lesser, in university decisions is warranted. We stand with you against this attack on shared governance.
The attempts by the WSU administration to strip away the collective bargaining rights for health care, working conditions, and salary erode the value of WSU faculty. Such actions also dramatically undermine Wright State University’s vision of “inclusive culture that respects the unique value of each of our students, faculty, staff, and alumni and for the positive transformative impact we have on the lives of our students”.
We strongly urge the WSU administration to reconsider their proposal and return to the table and bargain in good faith to better serve the mission and vison of the University.
In Solidarity,
Martin Schmerr, Ph.D.
United Faculty of Central Ohio Technical College, President
January 30, 2019
Marty Kich, President AAUP-WSU
113 Medical Sciences Building Wright State University
3640 Colonel Glenn Highway Dayton, Ohio 45435-0001
Dear President Kich:
On behalf of the American Federation of Musicians, Local 101-473, we are writing to express our full support to AAUP-WSU in your negotiations with the administration of Wright State University.
The imposed contract by Wright State’s administration strikes at the very core of the collective bargaining process; we support you in your efforts to achieve a better quality of education for your students, better working conditions, and the preservation of union rights.
We stand in solidarity with you and all other Unions in calling on President Schrader and the executive board of Wright State to end this standstill and negotiate in good faith for the benefit of all.
In solidarity,
Kweku Ayangade
President, AFM Local 101-473
The Otterbein Faculty Assembly voted to approve the resolution that appears below:
Whereas, the Otterbein Faculty Assembly supports the principles of collective bargaining at public institutions of higher education and shared governance;
Therefore, be it resolved, that the Otterbein Faculty Assembly supports the WSU faculty in their effort to defend quality education and we urge the WSU administration to return to negotiations to bargain in good faith.
Affiliated with the Maine Education Association & National Education Association
ASSOCIATED FACULTIES OF THE UNIVERSITIES OF MAINE
Dear Dr. Kich,
At its monthly meeting on January 26th, the Executive Committee of the Associated Faculties of the Universities of Maine (AFUM) unanimously approved a motion expressing its wholehearted support for Wright State faculty in their labor dispute with the WSU administration. Our union represents 1114 lecturers, instructors, and professors who serve on seven campuses of the University of Maine System, and, regrettably, we can all too easily identify with the stark and unfair conditions that are being imposed upon your membership.
The tactics employed by WSU Board of Trustees and senior administrators threaten to diminish the quality of education and research at the very institution they should be working to advance. Faculty are the lifeblood of every university, and nothing is gained by imposing conditions that deny them their due role in governance, erode the protections of tenure, weaken program viability through faculty retrenchments, and undermine morale through wage decreases in the guise of austerity furloughs and draconian revisions to health care premiums.
On behalf of our membership, and in concert with the many other expressions of support already posted on your website, we wish you every success in your action. We strongly urge the WSU President to return to the bargaining table, and to work productively toward a fair settlement.
In solidarity,
Jim McClymer, PhD, AFUM President
Jamie Moreira, PhD, AFUM Vice President
January 29, 2019
AAUP-WSU,
With the unanimous support of the Dayton Education Association Executive Board, I am writing today on behalf of our 1,000 Members, to let you know you have our support in your fight for a fair contract. We are following your fight and making in-kind donations to the cause. The unfair tactics that the trustees have employed to try to pull you apart have not worked and of that you can be proud. We are proud of you as you continue to stand for what is right.
As such, and as an additional gesture of the support of the Dayton Education Association, we will be sending a donation of $100.00 to AAUP-WSU in the hopes that you can continue to work to bring this to a quick and successful resolution.
David A. Romick
President, Dayton Education Association
“All of these contract components play a role if Wright State is to continue to attract top-notch faculty in the future. That’s critical for our students and for their younger sisters and brothers. Students have supported us in the strike because they understand the difference great faculty have made for them as individuals,” Kich went on. “And everyone in the Miami Valley needs their nurses and teachers, scientists and journalists, engineers and entrepreneurs trained by top faculty.”
American Association of University Professors Purdue University Chapter
West Lafayette, Indiana 47907
January 29, 2019
Dear Wright State Colleagues,
The Purdue chapter of the American Association of University Professors sends solidarity greetings. We stand with your faculty in its strike against the University administration. We support your demands for better wages and working conditions for faculty at Wright State, and your fight for a better educational environment for your students. Your struggle emblematizes the need for faculty across the country to work together in coalition to fight for its interests.
Respectfully,
American Association of University Professors – Purdue University (West Lafayette) Chapter West Lafayette, Indiana
January 28, 2019
United Faculty and Academic Staff
P.O. Box 260323 • Madison, WI 53726-0323
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President Cheryl Schrader
Wright State University
260 University Hall
3640 Colonel Glenn Hwy.
Dayton, OH 45435
President Schrader and Members of the Board of Trustees:
I am writing to you on behalf of the elected leadership of United Faculty and Academic Staff (UFAS), American Federation of Teachers Local 223, AFL-CIO. Established in 1930, UFAS is a democratically organized labor union for faculty and academic staff at the University of Wisconsin– Madison and University of Wisconsin-Extension.
We write to express our extreme concern about the dire state of affairs at Wright State University, and we join in support of the faculty in their demand for a fair contract. It is the students who will suffer from the inevitable decline in quality if faculty are forced to teach more and even larger classes, if critical courses are offered much less frequently, and if WSU is unable to recruit and retain the best educators and researchers.
AAUP-WSU has been attempting to negotiate a fair contract since January 2017, despite the administration’s aggressive attempt to roll back basic job security provided to faculty throughout Ohio and the nation—even where faculty are not unionized. The AAUP-WSU has made all of the concessions; the administration has not been willing to compromise on anything. All the while, WSU students, the local workforce, and the region’s economy have been harmed by the administration’s poor stewardship.
We demand that you change course immediately, and reconsider your hard line with the faculty, whose stellar work in teaching, mentoring, and research has built the university’s reputation and made it a top choice for area students. Students, faculty, and staff deserve leadership that values them and provides the support needed for their—and Wright State’s—success. We urge you to negotiate in good faith with the faculty union in order to end the current impasse.
Respectfully,
Chad Alan Goldberg
Professor of Sociology, University of Wisconsin–Madison
President, United Faculty & Academic Staff, AFT Local 223
United Faculty and Academic Staff (UFAS) is a labor union democratically organized to represent its members—faculty and academic staff at both the UW-Madison and UW-Extension. UFAS is an independent affiliate of the American Federation of Teachers, Local #223, AFL-CIO
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