YSU faculty approves contract

Details are not being released until trustees vote.

YOUNGSTOWN — The faculty members at Youngstown State University have approved a new labor contract.

But neither the faculty union nor the university administration will release any details on it until after the university board of trustees have voted on it.

Nancy White, a psychology professor and president of the 380-member YSU chapter of the Ohio Education Association, the union, said the contract was approved in voting Wednesday and Thursday

She would not give the vote total or any details about the contract, saying the union and university have agreed to keep the details secret until after both sides have approved it.

Ron Cole, spokesman for the university, said no date has been set for the board of trustees to vote on the contract.

Contracts for the faculty and for the 400-member Association of Classified Employees, the union representing nonteaching employees, expire this August.

Negotiations for the last contract broke down, resulting in both unions’ going on strike in late summer 2005. The two unions did come to an agreement with the university just before fall classes started that year.