Specialized Faculty (SF; previously NTTF) Reclassification Plan This fall most Specialized (Non-Tenure Track) Faculty will be reclassified. The UFF and the FSU Board of Trustees have agreed to a reclassification plan for specialized faculty, which concluded a six-year effort to update SF job descriptions and make other changes to the CBA. These changes address issues […]
Specialized Faculty Reclassification Update Fall 2013 Read Post »
UFF faculty and Administration/BOT teams concluded negotiations for fiscal 2012-13 in late Ocotober, including an agreement on Specialized (NTT) Faculty Reclassifications. Ratification voting for faculty is tentatively scheduled for December 4-5th. Revisions to the current contract are fairly extensive, and we encourage faculty members to begin their review of the tentatively agreed changes as soon as
Bargaining Update and Ratification Voting Read Post »
Report on University Welfare for Faculty Senate, September 19th, 2012 By Professor Jack Fiorito, Senator and UFF-FSU President Good afternoon! In view of the late hour and that we have already had a report on collective bargaining from President Barron, I will try to be brief. Collective Bargaining As President Barron suggested, budget cuts and
Faculty Senate Report on University Welfare Read Post »
DRAFT minutes from July 10th’s consultation with President Barron, Provost Stokes, and other administration representatives are now posted at the UFF-FSU web site (www.uff-fsu.org). The URL is: https://uff-fsu.org/art/Mins2012July10Consult-UFFdraft.pdf Charts from the UFF May faculty poll comparing Specialized Faculty (NTTF) and
UFF/FSU Presidents Consultation Read Post »
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
Report on University Welfare for Faculty Senate, February 22nd, 2012 Read Post »
UFF President Tom Auxter provides an update on legislative developments affecting Florida higher education in a document available at: https://uff-fsu.org/art/WhatWeFaceNow18January2012.pdf Collective bargaining continues today at 2pm at the FSU Training Center. This week’s “University Welfare” report to the FSU Faculty Senate, focused on Senate-related NTTF issues, is available at: https://uff-fsu.org/art/fs20120118.pdf Email Migration Alert! FSU IT
UFF-FSU Update, January 20th, 2012 Read Post »
Happy New Year! Hope you had a refreshing break. Volunteers and UFF staff have continued to work for FSU faculty these past few weeks, as indicated in part in the balance of this update. 1. At the “Ledge.” President Barron has noted that the initial state budget discussions have NOT included plans for large cuts
Collective Bargaining We’ve had just one bargaining session since the last Senate meeting. In contrast to most of our weekly sessions since May, which have focused on the Administration/BOT’s desire to revise performance evaluation procedures, we addressed academic freedom (Article 5), domestic partner benefits, and revisions to the Salary Plan for Professors (Article 25). At
Report on University Welfare for Faculty Senate, December 7th, 2011 Read Post »
The UFF and the BOT, via a joint BOT-UFF committee, have been working for several months on a plan to reclassify Non-Tenure Track Faculty (NTTF) positions. The initial impetus for this plan came from a Faculty Senate Report and from UFF-FSU survey results consistently revealing employment security as a top concern for NTTF. The plan
March 2011 Bargaining News Report: NTTF Reclassification Read Post »
This report (with accompanying tables) was released in 2006 by the American Association of University Professors (AAUP).
AAUP Report on Contingent Faculty Read Post »
