AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF UNIVERSITY PROFESSORS

The four-year labor contract covers more than 500 full-time EMU faculty members and includes increases in base pay, changes to health care plan costs and faculty parking costs.

Faculty members at Eastern Michigan University have voted to ratify a new four-year labor agreement with the school.

Members of the Eastern Michigan University American Association of University Professors (AAUP) voted 96% in favor of ratifying a new four-year labor agreement which includes significant gains in salary, retirement, and protections for health care coverage.

YPSILANTI, MI - Eastern Michigan University faculty will soon vote on ratifying a new contract that contains salary increases. Pay increases will be as high as 7.4% for the lowest-paid faculty members. Faculty members will receive an increase in retirement contributions commensurate with pay increases; employer retirement contributions will remain at 11% of salary, the EMU-AAUP noted. Health care premiums are defined in the proposed agreement based on an 80/20 cost-sharing model, the faculty union noted. READ MORE:Eastern Michigan University, faculty union reach tentative agreement to end strike‘Teaching myself is not ideal’: EMU students frustrated with faculty strike500 Eastern Michigan University faculty members begin Day 1 of indefinite strike

Classes are resuming Monday morning for Eastern Michigan University students after a tentative deal has been reached between the university and faculty that had been on strike.

YPSILANTI, MI - Eastern Michigan University has reached a tentative contract agreement with its faculty union, bringing an end to a strike that started last week. The EMU chapter of the AAUP, which has roughly 500 members, went on strike Sept. 7 after the faculty contract expired on Aug. 31. The tentative agreement must still be ratified in a vote by the EMU-AAUP. Prior to the tentative agreement, a Washtenaw County judge denied EMU’s emergency request last week to order striking faculty back to the classroom immediately. READ MORE:Judge denies EMU administration’s request to order striking faculty back to class now‘Teaching myself is not ideal’: EMU students frustrated with faculty strike500 Eastern Michigan University faculty members begin Day 1 of indefinite strike

YPSILANTI, MI -- A judge on Thursday denied Eastern Michigan University’s emergency request to order striking faculty back to the classroom immediately. Kuhnke’s Sept. 8 order states she was “not persuaded” the issue needed an immediate ruling. Kuhnke set a hearing for Friday, Sept. 16, where both the union and administration can make arguments about whether to grant the university’s request for a restraining order to stop the strike and send faculty back to class. The EMU chapter of the AAUP, which has roughly 500 members, went on strike a week after the faculty contract expired on Aug. 31. Related: 500 Eastern Michigan University faculty members begin Day 1 of indefinite strikeUniversity officials said they filed the request for the restraining order because of the effects the strike is having on students.

YPSILANTI, MI -- Eastern Michigan University has filed suit in Washtenaw County Circuit Court claiming its striking faculty members are breaking the law and should be ordered back to work. The EMU chapter of the American Association of University Professors, which has roughly 500 members, went on strike Wednesday, Sept. 7, a week after the faculty contract expired on Aug. 31. The university’s lawsuit claims the faculty strike violates the Public Employee Relations Act of 1947, which bans public employees from going on strike. Our negotiating team is meeting with EMU officials today; we are available today and every day to find common ground, settle this dispute and move our university forward.”Eastern Michigan University officials did not respond to a request for comment. Read more from The Ann Arbor News:‘Teaching myself is not ideal’: EMU students frustrated with faculty strike500 Eastern Michigan University faculty members begin Day 1 of indefinite strikeCentury-old relics from when Ann Arbor had streetcars unearthed downtown

YPSILANTI, MI -- As an Eastern Michigan University faculty strike nears the closure of its first full day, students say they are frustrated and concerned about the indefinite cancellation of some of their classes. Some EMU students, currently in their second week of classes, are apprehensive about the future of their studies. Teachers have told students they will not be grading work or responding to messages until the strike is resolved. “Teaching myself is not ideal when I’m paying to be on campus, paying for a parking pass,” Taylor said. Read more from The Ann Arbor News:500 Eastern Michigan University faculty members begin Day 1 of indefinite strikeEastern Michigan University faculty votes to go on strikeCentury-old relics from when Ann Arbor had streetcars unearthed downtown

YPSILANTI, MI --Roughly 50 Eastern Michigan University faculty members gathered outside Welch Hall Wednesday morning for the first day of a strike as negotiations continue to fail between their union and administration. Holmes was one of the faculty members on strike outside Welch Hall Wednesday morning. Related: Eastern Michigan University faculty votes to go on strikeStrikes significantly impact student experience, Kraft said. University administration has canceled or delayed meetings or taken days to respond to union proposals, the union said. “We really hate being here, and I am really sad to have to do this to my students,” Holmes said.

YPSILANTI, MI - More than 500 tenured and tenure track faculty at Eastern Michigan University will go on strike Wednesday, Sept. 7, after its chapter of the American Association of University Professors voted overwhelmingly in favor of the strike Tuesday evening. Eastern Michigan has offered faculty a 6.2% (average) salary increase in the first year of a new contract, and a five-year contract salary increase totaling 15.2%. Other proposals presented by EMU include an enrollment incentive plan wherein the university proposes to increase compensation further, should enrollment levels increase. The University also addressed union concerns by modifying its proposal on summer course compensation, and proposing an equity study of faculty salaries. READ MORE:$200M student housing plan finalized at Eastern Michigan UniversityHere’s who’s in the running for elected governing boards of 3 large Michigan universities$3 ticket day ends in 100-person brawl at movie theater

The Eastern Michigan University faculty has voted to authorize a strike due to a labor dispute during a union meeting Tuesday night.

YPSILANTI, MI - Eastern Michigan University has approved four collective bargaining agreements with its professor, UAW and two different police unions. The university negotiated the deals with EMU’s American Association of University Professors, UAW Local 197, Command Officers of Michigan and Police Officers Association of Michigan. All four deals address pay and health care coverage. There will be changes to the monthly employee health care premiums next year, but those figures were not shared by officials. The same health care availability offered to the UAW union will be made available to COAM.

Dozens of protesters were picketing Thursday morning outside Oakland University.

Oakland University sent a message Thursday morning stating classes will resume according to the schedule despite the threat of a faculty strike.

On Monday, the University of Michigan announced it is joining Michigan State University in requiring face coverings indoors on campus.