Starting today, the nomination period for all UAOSU officer and representative assembly positions are open. All members who joined on or before June 8th can be put forward as a candidate for an officer position. All members are eligible for nomination for a representative assembly position for their college. A Read more…
Dear Colleagues, We wanted to welcome everyone back for the fall term, and let you know that our first elections for union officers will be held in November/December. Nominations for office will open on October 5th for all elected positions set forward in our constitution and bylaws. You’ll be receiving Read more…
We are happy to announce that UAOSU and the administration have tentatively agreed on a Memorandum of Understanding regarding OSU’s resumption of in-person work. Our MOU guarantees that faculty who are able to perform their work remotely will retain the right to remain remote until the pandemic recedes and effective Read more…
The UAOSU bargaining team and the administration team met from 2:30-4 on Thursday, August 27, on Zoom. Once again, most of our session focused on a proposal preventing faculty from being forced to perform onsite/in-person work when their work can be performed online. We have exchanged this proposal several times, Read more…
The UAOSU bargaining team and the administration team met from 2:30-4 on Thursday, August 20th on Zoom. Most of our session was dedicated to a counterproposal from administration regarding faculty choice in returning to onsite/in-person work. There has been some real progress in terms of guaranteeing that faculty who can Read more…
Updated Salary Reduction Schedule As you’ll recall, UAOSU negotiated a progressive salary reduction program as part of our first contract. That program bases reductions on projected revenue shortfalls with three check-in points. At each of these points, the reduction level may be adjusted so that the ultimate size of the Read more…
Today we held an information session open to all fixed-term faculty members to share important reminders about timely provisions of our new Collective Bargaining Agreement that apply specifically to fixed-term faculty. If you were unable to attend the information session we want to make sure that all fixed-term faculty have Read more…
The UAOSU bargaining team and the administration team met 2:30–4 on Thursday, August 6 on Zoom. We finally received a written response to our Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) originally presented in our July 20 session. Our MOU sought to allow each faculty member to make their own decision about returning Read more…
On July 30, we met again with representatives from the administration to bargain over the impacts of the resumption of in-person work across OSU’s campuses, extension offices, and research stations. And, once again, a primary topic of discussion was our proposed Memorandum of Understanding that would allow each faculty member Read more…