More than 200 faculty went on strike earlier this month.

Heather Katzoff

After a two-day strike, threats of more striking and some 20 hours of negotiations this month, the faculty union at Harrisburg Area Community College reached a tentative agreement with the administration early Monday morning, PennLive.com reported .

The tentative agreement comes more than three years after HACC faculty voted to unionize in April 2022 amid a growing organized labor movement across the national higher education sector.

Faculty at the two-year college system in central Pennsylvania have advocated for a contract that includes pay raises, more control over the curriculum and class sizes, and an expanded grievance process, among other things. But the college has pushed back against the union’s proposa

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