Stand in Solidarity with OIT

At it’s Thursday, April 8th meeting, the PSU-AAUP Executive council voted to stand in solidarity with OT-AAUP, a sibling union chapter at Oregon Institute of Technology (OIT), whose membership overwhelmingly voted to authorize a strike. In 2014 when PSU-AAUP voted to strike, we were within 24 hours of a walkout when we came to tentative contract agreement with Administration. This was largely in part to the support and solidarity shown to us by our union siblings in Portland and beyond. We could not have averted a strike without strong shows of solidarity. After sixteen months, OT-AAUP is still negotiating important contract issues related to benefits (e.g., OIT Administration wants the option to pull members out of PEBB in the contract), workload, compensation, equity pay increases, and other working conditions. This is the first contract negotiation that this new AAUP chapter has undertaken. Please take a moment and show your solidarity with our OT-AAUP Colleagues.