From our colleagues at PSU-AAUP:
Unfortunately even after over 170 hours of PSU-AAUP bargaining, mediation, and impasse, the Cudd administration is resisting making meaningful changes to layoff protections or respecting shared governance, resisting giving academic professionals a livable COLA or any annual payscale, and delaying a contract which has bilingual pay for BIPOC academic professionals and bridge funding to protect researchers from gaps in funding like the ones created by Trump’s research cuts. The Cudd administration’s final offer on February 27th doesn’t make sufficient movement on these issues and the first ever strike in PSU-AAUP history could begin in as soon as 30 days.
With the soonest strike being less than 30 days away, we need community members, students, alumni, allies to email the administration and demand a fair contract now.