By Jack Troy, Senior Staff Writer
• April 19, 2023
Pitt’s faculty union held their fourth and final demonstration of the academic year on Tuesday morning, gathering at Posvar Hall to push the pace of compensation negotiations for the union’s first contract.
By Jack Troy, Senior Staff Writer
• December 7, 2022
Dozens of union faculty gathered outside of the Provost’s office Wednesday morning in an effort to advance stagnant job security talks ahead of a Dec. 14 bargaining session.
Faculty Assembly President Robin Kear said that the faculty union is moving to file an unfair labor practice charge against the University at a recent Assembly meeting.
By Jack Troy, Senior Staff Writer
• October 28, 2022
The PLRB certified the Pitt faculty union’s landslide election victory one year ago as of Friday. Since then, faculty have changed from advisors in a shared governance system to legal equals in slow and, at times, publicly bitter contract talks with administration.
The very existence of negotiations, however strained, gives Melinda Ciccocioppo “a real sense of serenity.”
The United Steelworkers union reached a “memorandum of understanding” with Pitt regarding expanded health and safety protections for faculty, following allegations that the University didn’t consult the faculty union before removing its mask mandate in March.
Nearly two months into contract negotiations between faculty union representatives and University officials, the union claims that Pitt seeks to unlawfully disqualify 600 members while failing to substantively engage in the bargaining process.
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