Author: Cathy Wagner
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Will legal trouble for Miami’s outside counsel create further delays?
By now, members of our community may have heard the news that management’s lead lawyer on the FAM-T side has stepped away and will soon be replaced. FAM, AAUP-AFT has been negotiating with Miami University for almost 470 days. In that time, we have faced numerous delays on the part of the university. We hope…
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MU spent $7.29 million on outside consultant while denying raises
at the same time they were denying faculty and librarians raises, management paid an outside consulting firm, Bain & Company, $7.29 million. For that money, they could have paid you and your colleagues the raises they denied you in 2023-24 and 2024-25 and walked away with almost $2 million in change.
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Miami’s concerning new workload policy
The new rubric raises expectations for research, scholarship, and creative activity. Faculty who do not meet those increased expectations will be expected to teach more.
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Community programs put at risk by Miami leadership
Long-running community programs in the city of Oxford and beyond are being put at risk by Miami leadership. They are saying that public work is outside the scope of librarian duties. This means librarian services to our local community — work librarians value and love — will end or be radically diminished.
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“It’s time for management to pay us our worth”: Rachel Makarowski
“Imagine what life would look like if we had raises that kept up with inflation, if we were able to ensure that pay was equitable and fair.”
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FAM’s first year of negotiations
Building our first contracts from scratch is a monumental undertaking, but thanks to the over 60 faculty members and librarians from all divisions and ranks who developed bargaining proposals, already we’ve made significant progress.
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FAM Index
Average annual raise FAM has proposed to help address increases in your cost of living: 7%. Management raise proposal: 1.4%. Cost of FAM pay proposal annually: $15 million. Average Miami surplus over last ten years: $109 million. Miami’s rank among Ohio public universities for financial viability and net income: 1 and 1.
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Why Miami Suspended the Administrator Evaluation Committee
With the announcement of the new process for evaluating administrators, the fog surrounding the suspension of the Administrator Evaluation Committee has finally cleared. Management’s new process makes clear that the reason given for suspending the old process — that it risks direct dealing — was never the actual reason. (“Direct dealing” is when a boss negotiates directly with an individual employee on wages or working…
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FAM-L Bargaining, Day 13
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…