The first day of the fall semester at Oakland University was marked today by the start of a faculty strike that forced the 18,000-student public college in Michigan to cancel classes indefinitely.
The Oakland University chapter of the American Association of University Professors, which represents roughly 600 faculty members, has been in contract talks with the university since mid-May. Among the sticking points are workload issues, how to include the institution’s medical school in the contract, the elimination of some health-insurance plans, no new salary increases, and cuts in summer pay, the union said.
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