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PSU-AAUP

PSU-AAUP represents over 1,100 faculty and academic professionals employed by Portland State University. We strive to defend the rights of our bargaining unit through advocacy, collective bargaining, and grievance procedures, and are committed to protecting tenure, due process, and academic freedom.

We are a union campus

A strong union community means a better future for PSU
With a large, strong membership, together we can make change on campus for the benefit of students, staff, academic professionals, faculty, and the community at large.

A large, active membership makes for better gains at the bargaining table
Cost-of-living adjustments, health insurance benefits, sick leave and the donated sick leave bank, higher salary minimums and pay equity pools, expanded Individual Professional Development Accounts, expansion of the Staff Fee Privilege (tuition waiver), disciplinary and grievances procedures, academic freedom protections…
NONE of this is in the AAUP contract by accident. All of it was fought for by union members who came before us. Only a large membership can maintain these rights and benefits and make forward progress.

Membership has its privileges
While the PSU-AAUP community will protect all faculty and academic professionals covered by our contract, there are also many “members only” rights and benefits- all of them valuable, some of them financially beneficial.

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President's Blog

Who Chose This for Portland State?

This post argues that PSU’s current restructuring — the Article 22 retrenchment, the eight-to-six college consolidation, and the centralization…

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President's Blog

Cudd’s May 6th HECC Testimony Concedes the Cuts

Tuition will continue to increase. Programs and positions will still likely face cuts at some institutions. This amount does…

Legislative & Political

PSU-AAUP makes first-ever political endorsements

After the failure by state-level politicians in Salem during the short legislative session to disconnect from two-thirds of the…

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Upcoming Events

04 Jun

4:30 pm – 6:30 pm

AAUP Spring Social

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