Oppose Severe Cuts for State Universities
We are down to the last week to leave messages for legislators. This is
our last chance to stop severe budget cuts. There is reason to think we
could reduce the damage if we stay with the task.
Month: February 2012
Report on University Welfare for Faculty Senate, February 22nd, 2012
Ratification voting is underway. If you are in the faculty bargaining unit and did not vote already, please do so on your way out today.
Aside from ratification, I would like to talk about reading assignments today. I will try to be brief and give you more time for your reading.
One document I urge you to read is the summary of what we are voting about. This summarizes everything we were able to resolve during roughly the past year of bargaining. There were many other things that we discussed, some very important to the Senate. Our bargaining co-chairs, Dr. Scott Hannahs of the Mag Lab and Dr. Irene Padavic of Sociology, prepared an excellent summary of the past year’s negotiations, including many of the issues that we are continuing to negotiate. It is only two pages, and it is excellent reading on some critical issues. Both documents are available at our web site and will pop up if you search there for “ratification.”
One key issue is the reclassification of specialized (non-tenure track) faculty. As recognized in the 2006 Faculty Senate report on specialized faculty, this issue necessarily ties into FSU’s commitment to tenure. Sec. 8.3 of our contract states “Commitment to developing and maintaining a tenured faculty. The Board agrees that it is in the best interests of the University, the faculty, and the students to maximize the ratio of tenured and tenure-accruing E&G appointments to the number of non-tenure-accruing E&G appointments among those appointments including significant teaching responsibilities. As Drs. Padavic and Hannahs report, however, “The chief … sticking point is the BOT team’s disinterest in any contract language that would follow through on the commitment of the FSU Constitution, the Faculty Senate, and the Collective Bargaining Agreement to preserve a tenured faculty.”
UFF Legislative Update: Week Five
UFF UNITED FACULTY OF FLORIDA
The 2012 Legislative Session: Week Five
The Florida Senate released a budget that:
February 2012: Collective Bargaining Update
The teams closed the 2011-2012 contract negotiations with agreements that can be found here. Later this month you will be asked to ratify the agreement.
Even though we formally re-opened negotiations for the 2012-13 year in late January, we have been steadily bargaining since May of 2011 on several issues, mainly: nontenure-track (specialized) faculty reclassification project, Performance Evaluations, the Salary Plan for Professors, Promotion & Tenure, Academic Freedom, and Domestic-Partner Benefits. The teams also renegotiated minor changes resulting in MOAs on Voluntary Separation Program, Winter Holidays, and our contract’s Amendment and Duration (Article 31). Details are below the fold.
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2/21-23: Contract Ratification Voting
Contract Ratification is tentatively scheduled for February 21-23. Your departmental stewards will be doing the voting in departments and general voting locations will be at Strozier and the Faculty Senate meeting.
Ratification Summary February 2012
Article 23 Salaries
Article 31 Amendment and Duration
Memorandum of Agreement – Merit Bonus
Memorandum of Agreement – Voluntary Separation Program 2011-01-13
Memorandum of Agreement – Winter Break 2011