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Dec. 17, 2025 - Memorandum of Understanding on Wage Increase, Rec Center Membership

The University is grateful for the significant contributions of our staff to our community and in support of our mission. To that end, we are pleased to announce that following our negotiations last week, an agreement has been signed with the United Steelworkers union on a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) that allows represented staff to receive a wage increase retroactive to Aug. 1, 2025. The MOU also provides represented staff employees with access to the University’s new state-of-the-art Recreation and Wellness Center upon purchase of a membership.

The agreement reached provides:

Wages:
Bargaining unit employees, other than those on a Performance Improvement Plan (PIP), provisional period, or leave of absence on July 1, 2025*, will receive a 2.5% base wage increase, effective Aug. 1, 2025, instead of July 1, to offset the increase in healthcare costs and premiums that were already implemented for non-represented employees but not passed on to bargaining unit employees. This increase will be paid on Jan. 23, 2026, for biweekly paid employees, and on Jan. 30, 2026, for monthly paid employees.

Recreation and Wellness Center (RWC) Membership:
Beginning Jan. 5, 2026, bargaining unit employees will be eligible for RWC membership at the following membership rates:

  • Employees earning less than $50,000 annually (or the hourly equivalent) will pay $35 for a monthly membership.
  • Employees earning $50,000 or more annually (or the hourly equivalent) will pay $45 for a monthly membership.

We continue to actively meet and negotiate with the union over remaining proposals. Please note that all University proposals and counterproposals related to the ongoing Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) negotiations are available on this site.

 

* Employees on a Performance Improvement Plan (PIP), provisional period, or leave of absence on July 1, 2025, will receive the wage increase effective on the date they complete the PIP, the provisional period, or return from the leave of absence, or August 1, 2025, whichever is later. To be eligible for the increase, the employee must be employed as of July 1, 2025. 

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