Union: University of the Arts lacks cash to pay employees money it owes them under federal law

University of the Arts students, staff, and faculty march past campus buildings on South Broad Street on Wednesday, June 5, 2024, in Philadelphia, on their way to a rally in front of the former law offices of UArts chair Jud Aaron.

During the nearly two-hour session, Derewicz made no proposals on health insurance, severance or other benefits and offered no details on the school’s finances, telling the union that such information “does not exist” currently, according to labor leaders. “The University of the Arts representatives communicated their hope to maybe, if members are lucky, adhere to the university’s legal obligations,” said Daniel Pieczkolon, president of United Academics of Philadelphia, a labor union that represents University of Arts faculty and staff. “Our members have been left to guess as to whether the university’s board and their hired guns from Alvarez & Marsal will develop any sense of their own finances and ongoing operations.

Several of the university’s deans banded together to try to get UArts to stave off the closure, one told state officials this week;

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