Category: UFF-FSU Administration

Bargaining Team Signs Off on Winter Break Memorandum of Agreement

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The UFF-FSU bargaining team, and its counterpart representing the Board of Trustees, have signed off on a memorandum of agreement concerning Winter Break.  Ratification of this and other MOAs and article reopeners (e.g. the previously announced MOA on merit pay and the renegotiated version of Article 23 [Salaries]) will be held later this semester.

New Member Rebates, Fall Semester 2011

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The UFF-FSU Chapter is pleased to announce that it is offering $100 New
Member Rebates once again.  Our Executive Council passed its annual budget last
week and reinstated this popular program.

The deal is straightforward:  If you are not already a UFF member, join now
and our Treasurer will write a check to you for $100 as soon as possible —
usually within 30 days of receiving your signed membership form.

Membership forms can be found at UFF Membership Form

We want to build a stronger voice for faculty at FSU and statewide.  You
already knew that joining UFF to help do this is the right thing to do.  Now,
there’s a little added incentive for the first new members (up to 100) to join this
semester after August 22nd and prior to November 24th.

If you are not already a UFF member, we look forward to seeing your
membership form soon.

If you are a UFF member, we sincerely thank you for your continuing support,
and for encouraging your colleagues to join us.  A stronger membership helps all of us.

Best regards,

Jack Fiorito, President

UFF-FSU Chapter

CBAs (Contracts), Bargaining, and Web Updates

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Have you received your 2010-2013 Collective Bargaining Agreement (the white contract)?

Through the help of many generous volunteers, we have completed our initial distribution effort. With almost 1700 represented faculty (also known as “covered by the contract,” “in unit,” or “part of the General Faculty Bargaining Unit” at FSU), a distribution effort spread over several weeks, summer holidays, and other complications, we have surely missed a few of you. Please let me know if you have not yet received the new (white cover) “CBA” ([email protected] ). We will do our best to get one to you as soon as possible.

Collective bargaining continues for the 2011-12 academic year. Negotiations resume Monday at 2pm at the FSU Training Center. We hope to wrap up salary negotiations then, that is, to come up with new salary provisions to replace some of the current provisions in the 2010-13 CBA. We then plan to move on to some previously tabled issues, including academic freedom, evaluation, and new classifications for non-tenure track faculty.

Web Updates! Our UFF-FSU web site and email lists have undergone a major overhaul. Please take a look at the new web site (same address, www.uff-fsu.org ) and tell us what you think. We are trying to make it easy to find information, and easier to provide updates (you won’t notice that initially). You will immediately notice a different look and feel for the revamped web site. So please take a look, and direct your comments to the Chair of our ad hoc committee on web redesign, Prof. Phil Steinberg ([email protected] ). We have also updated our email list servers, but you will probably not notice more than a slight difference. You got this message, right? Glitches and gremlins in the changeover are possible of course, and we apologize in advance for any problems that may arise.