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California Faculty Strike Averted, Terms of Deal Pending

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - California State University officials and the union that represents campus faculty are scheduled to reveal the terms Friday of a salary agreement that averted an unprecedented strike at the 23 campuses.

The California Faculty Association and Cal State officials said in a joint announcement Thursday that they had reached a tentative deal on the size of the pay increases for 26,000 professors, lecturers and others.

The two sides haven't described how the months-long stalemate that threatened to cancel classes for five days finally was broken.

Union members currently are in the second-year of a three-year contract that included across-the-board pay raises of 3 percent for the 2014-15 school year. Under that contract, salaries for subsequent years had to be renegotiated.

The faculty association sought a 5 percent salary increase for 2015-16 along with a 2.7 percent pay bump based on years of service. The university offered raises of 2 percent _ the same increase it had given other employees.

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