Oregon Tech filed a petition Wednesday with the Oregon Employment Relations Board, asking it to declare the tentative strike by the Oregon Tech American Association of University Professors unlawful.

The Oregon Institute of Technology Board of Trustees expressed their support for university President Nagi Naganathan Tuesday morning, less than a week before the college faces an impending faculty strike.

Significant hurdles remain over issues of compensation, benefits and workload, but tentative agreements reached Thursday night show signs of progress between Oregon Tech administration and its faculty union.

Five student teams pitched their business proposals to judges Thursday in the seventh annual catalyze Klamath entrepreneurship competition at the Oregon Institute of Technology.

GILCHRIST – Serenity pushes her shopping cart up to the register at the miniature toy Gilchrist Grocery Store. The clerk is one of her preschool classmates, who counts out her change before handing her the pretend money.

On January 22, 2019, the faculty at Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio, went on strike. Their walkout lasted for 20 days, before the union and administration agreed on a contract and faculty returned to work.

The Oregon Tech faculty union could strike as soon as April 26 if no contract deal is reached by that date.

The Oregon Tech Oregon Tech Board of Trustees are currently meeting in Klamath Falls. The meeting is taking place amid labor unrest with the faculty union and directly after a vote of no confidence was levied by the faculty senate against President Nagi Naganathan.

Roughly 92 percent of Oregon Tech faculty voted last week that they had lost confidence in university president Nagi Naganathan.

Once a week, sixth-grade boys at Stearns Elementary School show up for class dressed for success, wearing button-down long-sleeved shirts and ties.

Oregon Institute of Technology students have been the focal point of claims made by both university administration and faculty, as the two sides tangle amid a labor dispute. Both claim to be fighting for students.

Oregon Tech faculty voted overwhelmingly to authorize a strike if a labor agreement isn’t struck with university administration later this month.

As spring break ends, a faculty strike vote at Oregon Tech edges closer.

The morning after the Oregon Tech faculty senate called for university president Nagi Naganathan’s resignation, administrators at the school said he had no plans to leave his post.

The faculty senate at Oregon Tech voted Tuesday night to recommend university president Nagi Naganathan resign, citing his disregard for shared governance between administration and faculty leadership.