Oregon Tech faculty go on strike
April 27, 2021
FacebookTwitterEmail
KLAMATH FALLS, Ore. (AP) Oregon Tech’s faculty union has gone on strike.
Picket lines were seen Monday on the Klamath Falls and Wilsonville campuses, The Herald and News reported. By noon, roughly 100 people, including some students, held signs and chanted near the school’s main entrance.
The scene marked the first faculty-wide strike in the history of higher education in Oregon, the newspaper reported.
According to Oregon Tech, classes will continue as scheduled, despite the lack of professors. Erin Foley, dean of students, said classes will be covered by full-time faculty who have not gone on strike, part-time faculty and other instructors brought in from outside the university system.