The week of January 16th, 2006, Pace University and the Union of Adjunct Faculty at Pace (UAFP), represented by the New York State Union of Teachers (NYSUT), returned to the bargaining table for the 24th time since the fall of 2004 to resume a series of negotiations on the collective bargaining agreement the Union has proposed. The timeline of the bargaining reflects a slow but steady march toward consensus:

In June, 2005, the Union completed its presentation to the university of a comprehensive set of proposals; the following October, the university presented its counterproposals; at the most recent round of bargaining in November, 2005 and January, 2006, the Union responded to the university’s counterproposals. A great deal is at stake for Pace’s part-time faculty: according to statistics on the university’s website, 704 of Pace’s 1130 faculty members, or 62 percent, are part-time. (Notably, more than a third of Pace’s part-timers hold doctoral or terminal degrees.)

According to Eric Marshall, NYSUT Labor Relations Specialist and the Union’s lead negotiator, the talks are proceeding productively and in good faith.

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