Collective Bargaining Endorsed

Fri., May 30, 1997

From Staff And Wire Reports

Central Washington University faculty voted overwhelmingly Thursday to seek collective bargaining rights.

Results of the advisory vote will be presented June 13 to CWU’s board of trustees, which is not legally bound to endorse the concept.

The faculty cast 236 ballots in favor of collective bargaining and 94 against, for 71.5 percent approval. Nearly 76 percent of eligible faculty voted in the election, which was organized by the four-year school’s faculty senate.

The faculty’s bargaining representative would be called United Faculty of Central, which would be affiliated with the American Federation of Teachers and National Education Association.

Eastern Washington University became the first four-year college in the state to grant faculty collective-bargaining rights when the Cheney school’s trustees voted in April 1995 to enter into a collective-bargaining contract. The trustees’ vote followed months of talks with the faculty’s bargaining unit.

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