Dear Colleagues: The BOT and UFF bargaining teams have continued to meet weekly since our last Update of May 21, although recent progress has been slow. Discussions of Salary have been ongoing for several sessions, although the teams remain far apart. On the upside, both agree that Promotion Raises and SPI raises should remain at […]
Bargaining Update: June 1, 2017 Read Post »
The BOT and UFF bargaining teams have been meeting regularly since late March and have made progress on several articles. Discussions of Salary have been ongoing for the last two bargaining sessions. Because University employees are excluded for the first time in memory from raises targeted to other state employees, negotiations are particularly important this
Bargaining Update 5-22-17 Read Post »
The annual bargaining of the Collective Bargaining Agreement began March 8th with the exchange of open articles by the Board of Trustees (BOT) and the UFF. Salaries is of course open and each side is allowed to open two articles each year with the full agreement open every 3 years. This post will be updated
2017-2018 Collective Bargaining Status Read Post »
Dear Colleagues, The BOT and UFF bargaining teams met for three hours on April 12 and discussed several of the opened articles. The discussion of the Tenure Article concerned the BOT’s proposal to switch from a set of 2nd-and-4th-year reviews to a 3rd-year review and the UFF’s position that any such switch would need to
Bargaining Update 4-19-17 Read Post »
The FSU-BOT team and the UFF-FSU team met on March 29 to begin bargaining for the 2017-18 contract. This is a “limited re-opener” year, which means that teams can open two articles each in addition to Art. 23 Salaries, which is automatically reopened. Each side officially notified the other on March 8 about which articles they
Bargaining Update 3-29-17 Read Post »
FSU faculty are invited to voting on the ratification of the new 2016-2019 contract on Monday, May 23 and Tuesday, May 24. All faculty are eligible to vote, regardless of union affiliation. Voting must be in person. Polling places and times are as follows: MONDAY, MAY 23 9am-11am UNIVERSITY CENTER C ROOM 3101 (Comm.)
Ratification of contract Read Post »
The UFF and the FSU Administration have tentatively agreed upon a new 3 year contract. This year the whole contract was open for renegotiation and changes were made to several articles. This contract must be ratified by a vote of faculty and by the FSU Board of Trustees. Look for details on the significant changes
Collective Bargaining Contract Negotiation Update 2016-05-10 Read Post »
The UFF-FSU bargaining team is happy to announce that the UFF-FSU and the FSU Board of Trustees bargaining teams have reached agreement on all articles. This year was a “full book” negotiation, meaning that all 32 articles were open for renegotiation, although the teams agreed to limit negotiations to just 18 articles. Highlights Regarding salary,
Announcement of the conclusion of 2016-2019 contract negotiations Read Post »
We get a lot of questions about the new Market Equity raises that were implemented this year for the first time. This is a new system and required a lot of back and forth bargaining to get a workable solution acceptable to both the administration and the UFF. Your bargaining team has put together some
Market Equity Salary Adjustments. Read Post »
On August 6 and 7, FSU faculty voted on changes made to the 2013-2016 Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA). The result was unanimous approval of some excellent revisions to the contract. We planned the vote as soon as possible after reaching agreement with Administration in order to implement salary adjustments as soon as possible. Thanks
Ratification of contract Read Post »
