On Friday we received the long awaited decision from the Oregon Employment Relations Board on the unfair labor practice complaint we filed last year on the administration's threat to cut off faculty member's email if we went on strike.
The decision holds that the administration's threat violated ORS 243.672 (1) (a) as it "interfered with, restrained, or coerced Association-represented employees in the exercise of their PECBA-protected rights."
The board's decision goes beyond the order proposed by the administrative law judge in February as it orders the administration to "post a notice of its wrongdoing..." and, "in addition to the traditional physical posting of the notice, the University must distribute the notice to Association-represented employees by e-mail."
The decision made the news. See the articles at OregonLive and the Chronicle of Higher Education.
We extend thanks to Executive Director Phil Lesch, AAUP attorneys Jennifer Sung and Liz Joffe, and the witnesses who provided testimony at the hearing during the summer when everyone was off contract.