HACC’s faculty union is on the verge of a strike after a last-ditch negotiation session with college administrators that lasted late into Tuesday night.

Nearly 200 HACC faculty and students marched through campus Tuesday evening before the negotiations, chanting “enough is enough” and planting pro-union flags outside the school’s administration building — the culmination of the union going three-and-a-half years without an initial contract since faculty first voted to organize in April 2022.

“We are 40 months without a raise, 42 months without a contract,” Amy Withrow, a HACC English professor and the union’s lead negotiator, told her colleagues. “I can look at my faculty peers and say ‘we left no stone unturned to try to get a contract.’”

Adam Weber, a negotiator with the Pennsylvania

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