cba2024

As you know, your bargaining team reached a tentative agreement (TA) with the administration last week on a new Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) governing salaries and working conditions of most academic faculty at OSU. While we did not win everything we wanted or everything faculty deserve, we believe we won the best agreement that was […]

Your bargaining team is excited to announce that after sixteen months of bargaining, we have come to a Tentative Agreement (TA) on a new Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) with OSU’s administration. Based on responses to our bargaining survey, participation in bargaining forums, and hundreds and hundreds of conversations with academic faculty across OSU, we entered

We just came to conceptual agreement in our contract negotiations! We still have some language to nail down before we prepare for ratification, but we have general agreement on the content. Your bargaining team will bring it to our union’s Executive Committee, and will share the details soon, as we work out the final language

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Your UAOSU bargaining team met with the administration team and our state-appointed mediator on Tuesday, March 18 for our first mediation session. Unfortunately, after nine hours in mediation, we received a package from the administration team that did not include a proposal on Compensation.    UPCOMING EVENTS Fri 3/21 4-6pm, End of Term

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Your UAOSU bargaining team and the administration team met at 9:30am-2pm on Tuesday, February 18. The administration team passed three articles, showing almost no movement on crucial faculty priorities. We passed six proposals to the administration team and informed them that we have filed an Unfair Labor Practice due to their handling of

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Your UAOSU bargaining team and the administration team met from 11 am to 4:30 pm on Tuesday, February 11. Your UAOSU team arrived with two articles ready for tentative agreement, having worked through them in advance. The administration team brought nothing. During a caucus, your team worked through a counterproposal on Term of

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Your UAOSU bargaining team and the administration team met from 9:30-12:30 on Wednesday, January 29. The administration team did not bring an updated compensation proposal; however, they did bring counter proposals on Benefits, Leaves, and Academic Freedom. We engaged in extensive discussion about faculty rights to freedom of expression and about the need

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Your UAOSU bargaining team and the administration team met from 9:30-3:30 on Thursday, January 23. Much of the session focused on discussion of how temporary FTE reductions will work within continuous appointments for promoted faculty. We are glad to say we came to a tentative agreement on Appointment and Reappointment and Termination Not

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Your UAOSU bargaining team and the administration team met for an all-day bargaining session on Thursday, January 16 at Cascade Hall. The administration team had no counterproposals at the start of the session.  Your team brought several counterproposals, including:  Termination Not for Cause, Appointments and Reappointment, Position Descriptions and Workload, and after a

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Your UAOSU bargaining team and the administration team met for a morning bargaining session on Friday, January 10 at Cascade Hall. The administration team brought 3 counterproposals: Position Description and Workload, Research Support and Copyright, and a Letter of Agreement on Exceptional Service. There are still several significant details to be hammered out