UVM reaches new 3-year contract with faculty union

Old Mill at the University of Vermont. File photo by Bob LoCicero/VTDigger
BURLINGTON — After more than a year of difficult negotiations the University of Vermont and its faculty union have reached an agreement that will boost salaries 8.5 percent over the course of the new three-year deal.
Pay levels were the only sticking point when UVM and the union, United Academics, entered the fact-finding process in March. The final salary rate was described as roughly the midpoint between what each