LINCOLN -- The Nebraska Board of Regents voted Friday to approve a salary agreement expected to save a projected $1 million in salary expense for unionized faculty at the University of Nebraska at Omaha during the current two-year budget period.
The agreement, reached in December, settles ongoing litigation over faculty pay at UNO.
NU administrators last year offered a two-year total pay increase of 5.4 percent, but a special master ruled in favor of the union and awarded a 7.6 percent increase, or 3.8 pecent a year, over two years.
NU appealed that ruling to the Commission of Industrial Relations.
The compromise is for a 5.84 percent increase over the 2009-2011 two-year budget period, with a 4.5 percent increase in 2009-10 and a 1.34 percent increase in 2010-11. The agreement should result in fewer cuts elsewhere in UNO's budget as UNO adjusts to declines in state revenue.
- Leslie Reed
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