MARQUETTE, MI— NMU administration and faculty have agreed on a tentative Memorandum of Understanding for the next two years of a five-year contract.
About 300 full-time faculty and 100 contingent faculty are represented by the AAUP/AFT union. If the proposal passes, faculty will see a 6.25-percent wage increase in the next fiscal year beginning July 1st. They’ll receive a 2.75-percent increase in the second year beginning July 1st, 2025.
The proposed rates replace the current 2.5-percent yearly increase originally negotiated for the period.
In November 2021, Northern entered into an agreement with the AAUP/AFT faculty that allowed for a reopener on wages for the fiscal year 2024-25.
