The agreement includes wage increases in all four years of the contract and a one-time payment effective this month. Temple graduate students will get their benefits and tuition remission restored and will be able to return to work.
Temple University has reached a tentative agreement with the union representing its 750 graduate student teaching and research assistants after an 18-day strike that began Jan. 31.
Graduate students will get their benefits and tuition remission restored and will be able to return to work, Kaiser said. The union and the administration have been negotiating for more than a year, but until recently remained far apart on wages and benefits. It was the first strike in TUGSA’s approximate 20-year history.The average pay for a teaching and research assistant at Temple is $20,700 a year, according to the most recent numbers from the university, and the union had sought to raise it to over $32,000, an increase that it said was a necessary cost-of-living adjustment.
The strike took on a divisive tone after the university decided to withdraw tuition remission for the striking graduate students, telling them they must pay their spring tuition bills in full by March 9 or face a $100 late fee and the inability to register for future classes. The school also stopped paying for their health insurance, which at first caused a panic among students who found themselves temporarily cut off.
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