Impact Bargaining Around Campus Reopening

This has been a difficult time for many of us, and the prospect of being back on-site is exciting. However, many details must be worked out first. As you may know, new policies and procedures described in the Pathway to Fall guide introduce significant changes to the working conditions of OSU faculty and have raised a number of questions and concerns from all members of the OSU community. 

This is why we will be negotiating the terms of the return to on-site work with the administration.

Upcoming Bargaining Sessions

Our next bargaining sessions will be:

• September 21st from 9:30 to 10:30 am. Register to attend this session.
• September 29th from 4:00 to 5:00 pm. Register to attend this session.
• October 11th from 10:00 to 11:00 am. Register to attend this session.

For information about salary bargaining, go here.

Member Feedback on Bargaining Priorities

In order to gather ideas from our members, we held four listening sessions between 5/26 and 6/2.

If you were unable to attend one of these sessions, you can still contact the Representative from your unit, who you can find here. If your unit is currently unrepresented, you can also reach out to info@uaosu.org your questions and feedback.

Bargaining Updates

• Bargaining Update – 6/10/2021
• Bargaining Update – 6/24/2021
• Bargaining Update – 7/20/2021
• Bargaining Update – 8/13/2021
• Bargaining Update – 8/26/2021

Bargaining Proposals

• UAOSU Proposal – MOU: Remote and Flexible Work Requests (6/24/21)
• Administration Counterproposal – MOU: Remote and Flexible Work Requests (7/20/21)
• UAOSU Proposal – MOU: Classroom Enforcement of COVID Policies (7/20/21)
• UAOSU Proposal – MOU: Vaccination Rates (7/20/21)
• UAOSU Proposal – MOU: Classroom Enforcement of COVID Policies (7/30/21)
• Administration Counterproposal – MOU: Remote and Flexible Work Requests (8/3/21)
• Administration Counterproposal – MOU: Vaccination Rates (8/3/21)
• UAOSU Proposal – MOU: Remote and Flexible Work Requests (8/11/21)
• UAOSU Proposal – MOU: Vaccination Rate (8/11/21)
• UAOSU Proposal – MOU: Classroom Enforcement of COVID Policies (8/11/21)
• Administration Counterproposal – MOU: Remote and Flexible Work Requests (8/23/21)
• Administration Counterproposal – MOU: Vaccination Rate (8/23/21)
• UAOSU Proposal – MOU: Vaccination Rate (8/25/21)
• UAOSU Proposal – MOU: Face Coverings (8/25/21)
• Final – MOU: Remote and Flexible Work Requests (8/26/21)
• Administration Counterproposal – MOU: Vaccination Rate (9/14/21)
• Administration Counterproposal – MOU: Face Coverings (9/14/21)
• UAOSU Proposal – MOU: Immediate Remote Work (9/14/21)
• Administration Counterproposal – MOU: Immediate Remote Work (9/21/21)
• UAOSU Proposal – MOU: Face Coverings (9/21/21)

Existing Agreements on COVID-19 Working Conditions

Below are the final memorandums of understanding we reached with the administration regarding the impacts of COVID-19. You can read a brief summary of these Memorandums of Understandings here.

• MOU: COVID-19 Resumption of Onsite/In-Person Work
• MOU: Faculty Enforcement of COVID-19 Related Policies
• MOU: COVID-19 Impact on Reviews Promotion and Tenure
• MOU: COVID-19 Impact on the Use of Start-Up and Discretionary

Bargaining Team Members

Bill Thomas, Botany and Plant Pathology

Dan Andersen, Political Science, AFT-OR

Filix Maisch, Mathematics

H Rakes, Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

Jan Medlock, Biomedical Sciences

Kathleen Stanley, Sociology