Unions

With fall classes starting in less than two weeks, Oakland University administrators and faculty have not reached an agreement on a new contract.

Students attending the 14 state universities, including Shippensburg and Millersville, will start fall semester classes on Monday with a faculty that has no labor peace.

The union representing 900 part-time faculty at Madison Area Technical College, also known as Madison College, sued the school on Monday.

About 430 Western Michigan University maintenance, custodial, dining and landscaping employees will receive a 2 percent raise by 2013 after negotiating contracts for six months.

After a lengthy stalemate, the trustees of the University of New Hampshire have inked a new five-year contract with professors.

With fall classes approaching, Pennsylvania's 14 state-owned universities and roughly 6,000 unionized faculty remain locked in what an official says is now the longest unresolved teaching contract dispute in the State System of Higher Education's history.

The union representing faculty members at Pennsylvania's 14 state-owned universities has suspended negotiations with the administration.

The tentative pact, reached after two years of contentious talks, averts the potential of strikes this fall. Faculty members haven't had a raise in five years.

University of Rhode Island graduate assistants will get raises of about 3 percent under a new contract approved this week by the state Board of Governors for Higher Education, which less than three months earlier rejected the same contract amid concerns about costs.

The Eastern Michigan University Board of Regents has unanimously approved a four-year contract for the 21-member police officers union.