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01.22.24 – Contract negotiations begin tomorrow (Jan 23) at 10am!

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY UAOSU and the administration have finalized ground rules and will begin bargaining our contract reopener on Tuesday, January 23, 10am – 2pm at the LaSells Stewart Center.  —   Your UAOSU bargaining team and the administration team bargained ground rules over 3 sessions: December 1, December 15, and January 19. At last week’s

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8.18.23 Agreement Reached on the Creation of the Professor of Teaching Category

Dear Colleagues, Your bargaining team met with the administration’s team on Thursday, August 17 and signed a Letter of Agreement (LOA) on the creation of a new Professor of Teaching category. Background  The Faculty Senate voted to recommend creation of this new fixed-term professorial category, which includes a majority of duties in instruction but also includes an expectation

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7.20.23 Agreements on Paid Leave Oregon, External Letters for Promotion, and Other Updates

Dear Colleagues, Your bargaining team met with the administration team on July 10, 2023, and the two parties concluded an agreement on the implementation of Paid Leave Oregon that secured important protections for bargaining unit members. Read on for more details on this agreement and additional UAOSU updates. Our agreement ensures that no bargaining unit member seeking paid family and medical leave will be obligated

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3.1.24 – Nominations for union officers open today

Dear Members,   Starting today, the nomination period for our next UAOSU election for officer, representative assembly, and delegate positions is open. We have a new, simplified process for this election cycle!   If you’d like to run for office, just send an email to elections@uaosu.org expressing your self-nomination, and include two forwarded emails from

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12/12/22 Update on Paid Leave Oregon Negotiations

We met with the Administration’s bargaining team this morning to continue negotiating the implementation of Paid Leave Oregon (PLO). Thank you to the members who attended this morning’s bargaining session.   Last month, the administration team surprised us by stating that OSU had applied to the state of Oregon to develop their own equivalent paid leave to be administered through The Standard Insurance Company

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