Labor Accord Reached at Cincinnati State

Administrators and faculty members at Cincinnati State Technical and Community College agreed to a new contract Thursday that was preceded by months of negotiations and a weeklong strike in September, the Middletown Journal reported. The trustees unanimously approved the new three-year collective bargaining agreement that will require faculty members to teach 36 workload units over two semesters, 20 percent more than the 30 hours they had originally asked for. The newspaper reported that faculty members will not receive a raise this year but will receive a 2.75 percent annual raise for the next three years. The new contract applies to 200 full-time faculty members.