Executive Summary: After 7 weeks to prepare a counter-proposal, the administration submitted a salary increase plan that ignores our members’ salary priorities, and fails to keep up with inflation. If we were to accept this proposal, most OSU faculty members would lose money each year due to inflation. Register to attend our next Read more…
As you know, we have been negotiating since April over salary increases for the remainder of our contract (2021-2024), and today we held another session. This week, we also began bargaining over the details of campus reopening for fall. After this week’s sessions, we are certain that bargaining is going Read more…
Our union’s bargaining team members met with the administration team 9:30–11 on Wednesday, May 26 on Zoom. 23 faculty members joined us at this session. The administration team did not bring a counterproposal to our proposal for faculty compensation for the next 3 years. Instead, they gave a second presentation of their Read more…
Your UAOSU Bargaining Team met with the administration team on May 12 via Zoom. The session lasted for about an hour with 38 observers in attendance. This was the first substantive session in which we presented our salary proposal, which reflects the priorities of our members as expressed in our Read more…
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Your UAOSU bargaining team and the administration team met for three sessions this week to address COVID and campus reopening, as well as our salary reopener. In these sessions, two major advances were achieved. After months of refusing to discuss pay inequity through our negotiations, the administration has Read more…
In light of the administration’s announced plans for campus reopening in fall 2021, we will be opening bargaining to clarify the details to ensure the reopening is safe for OSU’s students, staff, and faculty. This is one of our legal rights as a union: to come to the table to address Read more…
The UAOSU bargaining team and the administration team met 9:30–11 on Wednesday, April 14 on Zoom. 24 faculty members observed the session. Please read on for ways to share your thoughts on our shared priorities in this round of negotiations over wages. During this session, the administration team gave a Read more…
Dear United Academics, As you may recall, we ratified our inaugural collective bargaining agreement in June 2020, during a period of financial uncertainty. Both parties agreed to set aside negotiations on salaries for fiscal years 2022–24 until Spring Term 2021. We held our first session on March 31, update below. We are Read more…
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY We met with the administration team on July 22 to continue discussing salary for the remaining three years of our contract. The administration presented a counter-proposal that increased the salary pool for raises to 3% annually but still excludes increases to minimum salaries or equity adjustments that we put forth Read more…
Our UAOSU bargaining team and the administration team met 11:30–1 on Monday, August 16 on Zoom. Thank you to the faculty members who observed the session. We presented a salary proposal that accepted some of the changes proposed by the administration team in their last proposal. Namely, we accepted their Read more…