Strike ends at St. Thomas University
[2008 02 04]Classes are set to resume this week at St. Thomas University after striking professors and the administration agreed to binding arbitration.
Dawn Morgan, spokesperson for the faculty union, said that while progress was being made at the bargaining table, significant differences remained, and that allowing an arbitrator to resolve the final issues was the best way to ensure classes could resume.
“We had reached this serious impasse and we could evaluate that we weren’t going to get any further through the negotiation route,” said Morgan. “We don’t have to give up the fight, but we can go back to the classroom.”
The decision to move to binding arbitration comes after the faculty union rejected the university’s final offer.
Negotiations at STU began one year ago and academic staff were locked out by the administration on December 27 before later going on strike.