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Contract negotiations between Wright State University and its faculty have been stalled since March. The union’s contract expired in June.

The previous contract remains in effect until after a fact-finder’s report is issued. Fact-finding is scheduled for late January.

Wright State AAUP president Martin Kich in an October interview said a strike was a possibility even though the union did not have a process in place to call for one.

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“We never had a procedure for calling a strike because in the past we always had a cordial relationship with the administration,” Kich said in a statement released after the AAUP-WSU unanimously voted to adopt an amendment to its constitution that creates a strike procedure.

At present, according to the statement, AAUP-WSU represents 584 faculty members. Though a strike process has been formalized, it remains a last resort, Kich said in a statement.

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