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Hello, fellow instructors and senior instructors. I’m writing to invite you to a fast-approaching hybrid workshop / discussion about our promotion process here at OSU.   Co-hosted by fellow instructors and UAOSU leaders, we’ll talk about: benefits of promotion eligibility and timelines advice from already promoted faculty questions, comments and concerns about initiating and navigating […]

Next Wednesday, November 5, from 5:30-7 pm we will be holding our Fall Term General Membership Meeting in the Journey Room at Memorial Union (and on Zoom). While we will be talking about our new contract and how we can work together on implementation, we will also be discussing the rapidly changing higher education landscape

Dear Colleagues,   Last weekend, I and a few other members of our union attended a summit of Oregon higher education unions (including our fellow OSU unions, CGE and SEIU 503!). The summit provided us space to strengthen our connections with fellow workers at Oregon universities and colleges and focused on how we can work

Greetings, and welcome to the Fall ’25 edition of “And Another Dam Thing,” the UAOSU Newsletter.   In this edition of our newsletter, you will find: A message from Joseph Orosco, our union’s president Info about Wednesday’s Faculty Senate Special Session Upcoming UAOSU Events Introductions to new members of the UAOSU Executive Committee A Welcome

A Welcome From Your President Labor Day has a long history in Oregon.  We were the first state in the nation to celebrate it in 1887–even before there was a federal holiday.  For almost 140 years, Oregonians have gathered to remember and honor the struggles and sacrifices workers have made to claim their rights and

Dear Members,   Earlier this month over 160 UAOSU members and our allies rallied together on the Corvallis Campus to call on the OSU administration to negotiate a contract that addresses your priorities. After the rally we delivered our Stability, Equity, and Respect petition containing over 600 faculty signatures to Provost Feser urging him and

Dear Colleagues,    As the graduate employee strike moves into its fourth week, your union has been receiving numerous reports of faculty being asked to cover the duties of striking workers against their objections – in many cases without meaningful (or any) offsets to their own workload, discussions about compensation, and in some cases with

Greetings, fellow Faculty Research Assistants and Research Associates!   We know that there is a lot of uncertainty and mystery around the promotion process for Faculty Research Assistants (FRAs) and Research Associates (RAs). Confusion over eligibility and timelines for promotion at the university level, differences in deadlines and guidance at the department level, and outdated