Dear Colleagues, The BOT and UFF teams met on Wednesday to exchange counter-proposals. The UFF opened the session by presenting a counter-proposal on Article 8 (Appointment). While we are unwilling to reduce the 4-year contracts for Specialized Faculty in the top rank or make it easier to curtail their employment, we made a counter-proposal […]
Bargaining Update – April 29, 2021 Read Post »
Dear Colleagues, The BOT and UFF teams met on Wednesday to exchange proposals. The UFF team began with a preamble about how our proposals offer the Administration the chance to live up to its designation as an Age-Friendly University, and we proceeded to offer details. The first example is in Article 17 (Leaves), where
Bargaining Update – April 16, 2021 Read Post »
Bargaining season is upon us! This year the BOT team and FSU team each open two articles, along with Article 23 (Salaries). We met briefly last Thursday to inform each other which articles we’re opening. UFF is opening Article 17 (Leaves) and Article 24 (Benefits), and the BOT is opening Article 8 (Appointments) and Article
Bargaining Update – April 5, 2021 Read Post »
The administration and UFF bargaining teams met this week and finalized contract provisions for 2020-2021, subject to approval by the bargaining unit in a secret ballot ratification vote. Regarding Salaries, we arrived at a one-time bonus of $1,200. Recall that faculty also received a $1,500 raise that was negotiated last year and went into effect
Conclusion of Negotiations-Sept. 18, 2020 Read Post »
The BOT and UFF bargaining teams met for regular bargaining on Wednesday to consider several proposals. The meeting was lively with several proposals and counterproposals discussed. We began with the UFF proposal on Salaries, which specified a $1,500 bonus with the possibility of its becoming permanent and a 0.5% cap on Administrative Discretionary Increases (ADI)
Bargaining Update-September 4 Read Post »
The BOT and the UFF teams met Monday and are pleased to announce that we have reached agreement on a Memorandum of Understanding on the COVID-19 Health Emergency. It took months of hard work, but both teams support the result. You can read the agreement here. Some notable elements: Straightforward language allows faculty members to
Bargaining Update-September 1 Read Post »
The BOT and FSU bargaining teams met on Wednesday to discuss the BOT proposals on Article 23 Salaries and Article 13 Layoff and Recall. The BOT’s salary proposal offers a $500 bonus, along with Promotion and SPI raises and 0.8 percent in Administrative Discretionary Increases. They proposed no increases to our base salaries, citing financial
Bargaining Update-August 19 Read Post »
On Thursday, the BOT and FSU bargaining teams met for the second session of the week, this time to discuss the UFF proposal on Article 13 Layoff and Recall. You can read the proposal here. The key issue is the definition of “layoff unit,” and the UFF has proposed that it be a person’s tenure
Bargaining Update-Aug. 6, 2020 Read Post »
This is a busy week for bargaining, and on Monday the BOT and the UFF team met for Impact Bargaining regarding the Covid-19 Pandemic. We will meet again this Thursday at 10:00 to discuss Layoffs and possibly Impact Bargaining, as well. The UFF team had made an initial Impact Bargaining proposal a couple of weeks
Bargaining Update-Aug. 3, 2020 Read Post »
The FSU-BOT team and the UFF-FSU teams met on Wednesday to continue regular bargaining. The main topic was the MOU on the Pilot Tuition Scholarship Program for Dependents and Spouses. Both sides are pleased to announce that we reached agreement! This MOU offers major improvements over the version we had agreed to for the past two
BARGAINING UPDATE – JULY 15, 2020 Read Post »
