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News from EMUFT

EMUFT Members Ratify Tentative Agreement

September 11: Fall Membership Meeting

Tentative Agreement Reached with University

August 28: EMUFT negotiating team and university reach tentative agreement.

Joseph Lowry Wins EMU Outstanding Lecturer Award

Contract Negotiations Begin

Contract negoiations begin between Eastern Michigan University and EMU Federation of Teachers.

Impact of Unions

David Dobbie (GEO) and Ian Robinson have recently published the results of their study on higher education unionization in the US.

An article about the study can be found in the June 3rd issue of the Chronicle of Higher Education.

http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2008/06/03/labor

2008 EMU FT Scholarship Winner!

The Eastern Michigan University Federation of Teachers is proud to announce the winner of our second Labor Lives Scholarship Essay contest. Anketse Kassa is a Junior at Eastern Michigan University and originally from Ethiopia. Currently she studies dietetics. She plans to attend graduate school and teach while working on a doctoral degree. Anketse hopes to focus her studies on AIDs research and eventually return to Africa to educate people about AIDs and improve the quality of life.