Excerpt from Dayton Daily News
The union representing Wright State faculty members voted Sunday to authorize a strike which is set to begin next Tuesday.
Members of the American Association of University Professors, Wright State chapter, voted Sunday with 85 percent of members supporting authorizing a strike, the union said in a media release Monday morning.
The strike is set to begin Jan. 22 at 8 a.m., according to a notice filed with the State Employment Relations Board last week.“Our faculty are standing together to uphold the principle that public education serves the public good,” Marty Kich, President of AAUP-WSU said in the release. “We want to preserve faculty’s role in making decisions about the University.”
Kich said he expects union members from around the state will be joining WSU faculty on the picket line next week. There are around 560 faculty members in the union of around 1,700 faculty total at Wright State.
