Today at FAM-L bargaining, our negotiating team worked to protect librarians’ promotion, tenure, and evaluation process and advocate for more manageable workloads.
Meanwhile, management presented “solutions” that miss the realities of librarians’ day-to-day work — promotion procedures that put librarians’ progress at risk; arguing that service and scholarship don’t count as part of day-to-day work (though both are required for promotion); and claiming that reducing the dossier page-count is enough to lighten librarians’ untenable workloads.
Management also presented a dangerously broad furlough policy that would allow them to furlough virtually at will if there is a “reduction in the operating budget.” Our proposal would protect librarians with a range of procedures that must first be completed before reductions in pay or benefits.
Read proposals in full at our Proposal Tracker.
On the bright side, we have tentatively agreed to an MOU assuring that our contract will apply to all FAM-L members, including those not currently covered by the Libraries Appointment, Rank and Promotion System (LARPS).
The FAM team continues to negotiate in good faith for solutions that will be a win for both librarians and the university.
Coming Up
Join FAM at Uptown Park in Oxford between 2:00 and 4:00 on Monday, April 8th to watch the once-in-a-lifetime solar eclipse as a union! We’ll be giving out brand-spanking-new FAM t-shirts!
We’ll have some certified eclipse glasses and limited-edition FAM eclipse buttons as well!
FAM-T will bargain next on Wednesday, April 17 (location TBA), in what is shaping up to be a crucial session. FAM-L’s next bargaining session is Friday, April 19th at Demske. Be there and wear your FAM swag (or use a FAM Zoom background!).
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