When former congressman Bill Johnson was appointed president at YSU, the choice was met with massive campus outcry. 

Student groups and faculty groups expressed concerns over the secretive hiring process, as well as Johnson's hard-right politics.

During a ceremony on Thursday, Johnson was installed as the 10th president of the university.

But several months after his controversial hiring, relations between the board of trustees and union member have weakened.

According to Mark Vopat YSU-OEA union president, the majority of union members no longer trust the board of trustees. 

"The board has not discussed the procedures by which they chose the president, whether they regretted doing it that way." Vopat said. 

The union president said not having interactions with trustees isn't unusual, but in this case, they were expecting to hear from them eventually.

"I thought possibly there would have been a little more interactions after to hopefully, maybe, work towards patching up relationships. But so far, it's just been silence. And in fairness to them, I haven't reached out to them either. But I think I've said all I needed to say publicly." Vopat told 21 News. 

During the installation ceremony, 21 News asked Michael Peterson trustee chairman, about the unions concerns over a lack of communication, he says that's not his concern.

"We've moved on so far from that. Not just us, everyone has. Everybody understands what happened [and] what the process was. Were just excited to be here," Peterson said.