Issue 1: Are student/faculty ratios and classroom teaching hours mandatory subjects of bargaining?

Issue 2: Did the employer unilaterally change, and refuse to bargain, student/faculty ratios and classroom teaching hours?

Issue 3: Did the union waive its right to bargain changes in mandatory subjects of bargaining?

Based on all the sworn testimony, the evidence admitted into the record and the arguments submitted by the parties, the Examiner rules that the employer did unilaterally change the mandatory subjects of student/faculty ratios and hours of work. The employer did not provide the union with a reasonable opportunity to bargain. The union did not waive its bargaining rights. Therefore, the employer did commit refusal to bargain, and derivative interference, violations.

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By: Katrina I. Boedecker, Examiner
March 27, 2008

Jon Howard Rosen, for the union.
Scott Majors, for the employer.

Case 20823-U-06-5307

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