Management’s compensation and benefits proposals dropped today. Their Compensation proposal provides a mere 1.25% annual salary increase (after an initial signing increase of 2%) and a flat rate for all promotion increases (a smaller increase than current practice). Our proposal, by contrast, would provide librarians with a substantial cost of living increase annually of 7% on average, plus merit pay.
Try our nifty pay calculators to figure out how FAM’s compensation proposal would benefit your salary!
On benefits, management offered subpar health insurance coverage terms, as well as minimal sick leave, vacation, and leaves. We asked why the university grants us vacation days but then requires us to take them on days when campus is closed — a situation that our proposal attempts to fix but management’s does not.
In order to maintain Miami libraries’ stature and reputation, FAM proposed counters that would clearly define librarian ranks and protect our promotion process by retaining an elected Personnel Committee. We held to protections for our members in Scope of Duties and Working Conditions, an important proposal that determines each librarians’ job duties and workloads, including workload relief.
We signed a Tentative Agreement today on Health, Safety, and Security that includes gender-inclusive restrooms and private lactation rooms for our members. You can read all proposals here!
Help us show management that we won’t accept their dismal compensation and benefits language — come to FAM-L bargaining again on Friday! We’ll be at Demske in Oxford. And watch your email and our socials for info about upcoming post-bargaining happy hours this summer so you can drink and debrief with FAM!
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