Though graduate students remain on strike, a tentative deal could soon end the weeks-long walkout.
Temple University and its striking graduate student teaching and research assistants have reached a tentative agreement that could end the 2 1/2-week-long walkout.
Temple said the agreement includes wage increases in all four years as well as a one-time payment effective this month. The announcement on the university's website said graduate students will retain free health insurance for themselves but does not mention such insurance for dependents, which the union had been seeking.
“We are pleased with the outcome and eager to welcome our students back to their teaching, research and studies,” Ken Kaiser, Temple senior vice president and chief operating officer, said in a statement. The Philadelphia Inquirer reports that Bethany Kosmicki, a member of the negotiating team and past president of the Temple University Graduate Students’ Association, confirmed the tentative agreement and said it would be presented to members for ratification.Sign up for NBC Philadelphia newsletters.The Temple University Graduate Student Association, which represents about 750 members, began the first strike in its two-decade-long history on Jan.
The university maintains that more than 80% of graduate student teaching and research assistants continued to work, but the union said at least twice that many were on strike. Many classes were moved online to accommodate new instructors' schedules and following reports of intimidation of students and instructors, the university said.
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