GOOD NEWS: Eight hundred people participating in a Strike Authorization Vote, 94% voting to authorize, changed the dynamic at the table. BAD NEWS: The Admin Offer Still - Guts Protections for the P & T Guidelines and Unwritten Work Policies - Fails to Provide an Advancement Path for APs - Leaves Too Many Fixed-term Faculty in Short-Term Contracts - Rejects Better Planning for Academic Quality - Fails to Keep 90% of us whole with respect to inflation, for academic year - Allows all Summer Session Budget and Pay Cuts - Refuses Bigger Promotion Raises - Etc, Etc, Etc read more >

News: Update on Mediation read more >

News 1. Nearly 800 PSU-AAUP Members Participated in Strike Authorization Vote - 94% Voted YES 2. Admin Response: SPIN + Questionable Threats - More Coming! 3. What Might we Gain by Striking, or Coming Close to a Strike? 4. A Plan to Win! read more >

PSU Faculty and APs made history, today and yesterday, turning out in huge numbers to authorize the PSU-AAUP Bargaining Team to call a strike if they see no other way to obtain a decent contract. read more >

The AAUP Bargaining team has submitted our Last, Best and Final Offer the the PSU Administration on Monday, March 3, 2014. read more >

OUTRAGEOUSLY FABULOUS INFO PICKET & WALKOUT!!! "Best PSU Rally EVER!!!!" in the words of Margaret Butler, an expert on rallies and PSU, as the long-time Exec Director of Portland's Jobs with Justice and daughter of beloved PSU Librarian, Kenneth Butler. 350 PSU Faculty and APs stayed out in the cold rain to picket and rally on Thursday, carrying signs and chanting, "Who is PSU? We are PSU!" read more >

PSU-AAUP to Formally Declare Impasse on Monday, Feb 24th Monday morning, we'll send a Declaration of Impasse to Oregon's Employment Relations Board. We'll announce it to the press, and invite them to our Info Picket and Rally on Thursday, Feb 27th, 11 - 1. read more >

The PSU Admin decided to play hardball with us this year, creating a crisis atmosphere with talk of a $15m "structural deficit" and elimination of 20% of programs by following DIckeson's program prioritization model, while pushing to strip entire articles - and big sections of others- from the contract. Although the Admin two months later reduced the $15m to $7.5M, and recently stated that only half that need come from academic budgets, academic units are still supposed to - Come up with 6% budget cut scenarios, and - Teach Summer Session with one-third the budgets available when Summer Session was independent, while "producing as much SCH" as ever. read more >

NEWS: Point-by-Point Refutation of PSU Admin's Weak, Jan 30th Response to PSU-AAUP's Open Letter Outlining Our Reasons for Skepticism of the Admin Case for a $15 Million "Structural Deficit." read more >

The spin machine is in full gear at PSU - in the Admin's Thursday e-mail blast, on the Budget website, and in Pres Wiewel's remarks to PSU's incoming Board. read more >

Just today, Jan 27th, we finished our 5th day-long mediation session, and can tell you that mediation - in the form prescribed by Oregon's Employment Relations Board - is an EXTREMELY FRUSTRATING exercise of communicating through a third party with no experience or knowledge of the University. read more >

News: Will We Have to Strike? Current Status of Bargaining read more >

Why Run a Provocative Ad in the Vanguard? Because we're not getting any answers, after weeks of asking. On Tuesday, Jan 14, we're running a provocative, full-page ad in the Vanguard, with an overview of the reasons that the PSU-AAUP is skeptical of the "structural deficit" in PSU's budget, and the case for serious cuts to the budgets of academic units. read more >

At our 12th Bargaining Session, November 19, 2013, our AAUP Bargaining team submitted a revised package proposal to the Administration. We provided explanations for our requests with respect to the changes made in the articles in our package. read more >

Bargaining Report #10 about Bargaining Session #10, October 15, & #11, November 5, 2013 read more >

At our ninth Bargaining Session, October 4, 2013, more than 150 of our members came to support our AAUP-PSU Bargaining Team. From 12:15 until 12:45, they lined the hallway outside the bargaining room in the Market Center Building holding signs and chanting for a fair contract. The Administration’s team was unwilling to conduct negotiations until the hallway was cleared. More than another hour passed before their team entered the bargaining room where the AAUP-PSU team had waited patiently. read more >

At our eighth Bargaining Session, September 10, 2013, the AAUP-PSU Bargaining Team heard proposals from the Administration on the following articles: Article 8 (Past Practices), Article 11 (Released Time), Article 17 (Academic Professionals) , Article 18 (Fixed-term and Research Faculty), Article 35 (Personnel Files), AAUP New Article (Academic Quality), and AAUP New Article (Parental Leave and Catastrophic Leave Bank) read more >

At our seventh Bargaining Session, August 6, 2013, the PSU-AAUP Bargaining Team presented proposals for Article 17 (Academic Professionals) , Article 18 (Fixed-term and Research Faculty), New Article (Academic Quality), and New Article (Parental Leave and Catastrophic Leave Bank) read more >

At our sixth Bargaining Session, July 2, 2013, the AAUP-PSU Bargaining Team presented proposals for Article 17 (Academic Professionals) , Article 18 (Fixed-term and Research Faculty), Article 19 (Professional Development and Support), and Article 34 (Library Faculty Research and Development Days) read more >

At our fifth Bargaining Session, June 25, 2013, the PSU-AAUP Bargaining Team presented a proposal for Article 31 (Insurance). The Administration presented limited proposals for Article 17 (Academic Professionals) and Article 18 (Fixed-term and Research Faculty). read more >