Dear FSU Colleagues, Our latest bargaining session was held on Thursday, July 31. Your UFF-FSU faculty team and the Board of Trustees’ team discussed salaries (Article 23), parental and family leaves (Article 17), and inventions and works (Article 18). The BOT team first presented their latest proposal for Article 18, Inventions and Works. The sticking […]

Dear colleagues, Our latest bargaining session was held on Monday afternoon, July 28. Your UFF-FSU faculty team and the Board of Trustees’ team discussed salaries (Article 23), parental and family leaves (Article 17), and inventions and works (Article 18). We were disappointed with how things went. I thought that we were close to agreement on

Dear FSU Colleagues, At our June 4 bargaining session, we continued to discuss intellectual property rights for faculty.  The Board of Trustees team responded to our counter of Article 18, Inventions and Works, and as explained below, in a win for faculty, they offered to trade status quo language in Article 19, Conflict of Interest,

Dear Colleagues, This past bargaining session featured a lot of discussion on intellectual property rights for faculty. The outcome of these issues will seriously affect how faculty can treat their creative work, including databases, software, and their instructional materials. The UFF-FSU team responded to the Board of Trustees team’s proposals for articles — 18, Inventions

Dear Colleagues, Our latest collective bargaining session had some significant developments.  We started with presentations by the BOT team, since the UFF-FSU team had responded to all open articles at the last session. The BOT team presented two new articles, Article 18, Inventions and Works, and Article 19, Conflict of Interest along with a response to

On Monday after an olympic style, five-hour marathon bargaining session, our 16th, the UFF and Board of Trustees came to an agreement on changes to the collective bargaining agreement. Here are the five signed tentative agreement documents. Opened at the behest of the Board of Trustees bargaining team, “Article 10 Performance Evaluations” with modifications for

Dear FSU Colleagues, On July 31, the two teams met for the fourteenth time. Thanks to all those who attended and gave input! Please note that we will meet once again today, 2-5pm, to hear the BOT’s response to the proposals we presented. We presented proposals for the following articles: ·         Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) that would assure

Dear colleagues, Our thirteenth bargaining session of this bargaining season was held on Wednesday, July 24. Here’s a brief update on where we are in the process. After presenting us with their proposals for three articles, the BOT team insisted that all three articles were a package and we could only continue to bargain on

Dear colleagues, Our twelfth bargaining session of this bargaining season was held on Wednesday, July 17. Here’s a brief update on where we are in the process. Synopsis: Here’s the weekly salary chart. You can see that we really aren’t very far apart. If we can agree about putting PTR into an MOA for this year and if we can bring

Dear FSU Colleagues: On Monday, July 1, the UFF team presented the BOT team with our latest salary proposal, and after a caucus, the BOT team proposed a salary counter proposal along with Article 10 (Performance Evaluations), which once again includes PTR, and a Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) that counters our Article 20 (Grievances and