Great news on the benefits front--faculty at the 14 universities run by the PA State System of Higher Education will receive domestic partner benefits under a tentative new contract!
It's always great to see advances such as these. What I think is even better, however, is that the extension of these benefits didn't come after protracted protests and threatened lawsuits, as has happened at other universities. (Although there was a tenuous contract situation in general, it did not revolve primarily around this issue.) With the previous contract the university system agreed to consider domestic partner benefits, but only if they were extended to other unionized state employees. That has not happened, but the university system decided to add these benefits anyway.
The great thing to see is the continued evidence that such previously "outlandish" things as domestic partner benefits are becoming more and more essential to any attractive benefits package. These benefits were not extended out of good will and harmony, but because it is good business sense to offer these things. It's not exactly new, but it's great to see these trends continue and strengthen.
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