cba2024

8.29.24 – Seeking Clarity and Equity in Workload

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Your bargaining team and the administration team met on Friday, August 16 from 9-11 and again on Thursday, August 22 from 9-12 in Cascade Hall. During the first of these two sessions, the administration passed the Position Descriptions and Workload article, and verbally declined Letters of Agreement regarding Promotion Criteria for Instructors & […]

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7.30.24 – Asking admin to try again on compensation

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Your UAOSU bargaining team and the administration team met on Thursday, July 25 in front of a standing room only crowd of faculty observers. During the 2.5 hour session we passed four counterproposals to the administration team: Compensation, Academic Freedom and Shared Governance, Academic Classification and Rank, and a proposed letter of agreement

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7.24.24 – Bargaining Update: Baby steps

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Your UAOSU bargaining team and the administration team met at 9am-noon on Wednesday, July 10 and 9am-1pm on Tuesday, July 16. In the first session, we passed 3 counterproposals to the administration team: Grievance Procedure, Union Rights, and Non-Discrimination and Respectful Workplace. The administration team passed 3 counterproposals: Personnel Records, Dues Deduction, and

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6.14.24 Prosperity Widely Shared . . . But Not With Faculty

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Your UAOSU bargaining team and the administration team met from 9:30am to 1:30pm in Cascades Hall 143. The administration passed a “package” of 5 Articles (Compensation, Benefits, Leaves, Research Support & Copyright, and Term of Agreement) and a counterproposal to our Letter of Agreement on Support for Caregivers. Collectively, they exhibit a shocking

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04.23.24 – Ongoing negotiations around external letters for NTT faculty

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Your UAOSU bargaining team and the administration team met from 9am until almost 1pm on Wednesday, April 17th at the LaSells Stewart Center.  Nearly the whole session centered on negotiating a Letter of Agreement (LOA) on eliminating the requirement for external review letters in promotion cases for non-professorial fixed-term faculty.  Your UAOSU team

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