YSU trustees reject fact-finder's report; negotiations can resume

YOUNGSTOWN

Youngstown State University trustees unanimously rejected a fact-finder’s report for a contract with the Association of Classified Employees that called for a freeze of both wages and step adjustments.

Although fact-finder Robert G. Stein of Portage County recommended wage and step freezes, he included what’s effectively a “me-too” clause.

The freezes are to be in effect provided “the administration as a whole does not receive a general wage increase during the life of the agreement” and no other striking bargaining unit “receives a percentage increase in wages during the life of the agreement either through negotiations or fact-finding,” the report said.

If any other striking bargaining unit receives a wage increase, “then the ACE bargaining unit shall receive the same wage increase effective on that same date,” it says.

A statement from the university said rejection of the report means the two sides can resume negotiations.

Read more about the matter in Wednesday's Vindicator or on Vindy.com.