JOHNSTOWN, Pa. \u2013 Contract negotiations between the University of Pittsburgh and the Service Employees International Union Local 32BJ at the University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown are ongoing, officials from both sides said.<\/p>\n
Proposals have been traded between the parties several times since the last contract expired June 30, but to no avail.<\/p>\n
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Joshua Byers is a reporter for The Tribune-Democrat. He can be reached at 814-532-5054. Follow him on Twitter @Journo_Josh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JOHNSTOWN, Pa. \u2013 Contract negotiations between the University of Pittsburgh and the Service Employees International Union Local 32BJ…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":76005,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[3479,60,4458,2272,21180,6954,52,27674,59,27673,4443,27672,27670,17285,27671,27675,73,75,74,65,375,27668,39142,19044,2553,26626],"class_list":["post-76183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-advocacy","tag-business","tag-business-ethics","tag-business-law","tag-collective-bargaining","tag-contract","tag-cost-of-living","tag-industrial-relations","tag-labor","tag-labor-disputes","tag-labor-relations","tag-labor-related-organizations","tag-labour-movement","tag-negotiation","tag-occupational-organizations","tag-organizational-conflict","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-salary","tag-social-conflict","tag-sociology-of-work","tag-strike-action","tag-trade-unions","tag-university-of-pittsburgh","tag-university-of-pittsburgh-at-johnstown"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76183\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}