Author: Theresa Kulbaga
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FAM-L Bargaining, Day 14
Librarians closed our contract today! Today ended in victory for librarians – and your presence at the negotiations made a difference! In a room packed with faculty and librarians, we won a tentative agreement on our second librarian contract. While we had to make some concessions to get to this point, we gained improvements in…
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FAM win on summer pay!
It PAYS to be in a union We have an update on management’s unilateral changes to the timing of your summer pay (not the amount) for faculty teaching during the summer terms. After the University refused to bargain over these changes, we filed an Unfair Labor Practice (ULP) charge with the State Employment Relations Board…
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FAM-T Bargaining and FAM-L Bargaining, Week of June 22nd
We’re ramping up the pressure As we move closer to reaching agreement on our faculty and librarian contracts, we are ramping up the pressure at the table — and throughout Oxford and surrounding areas. We’ve been posting Fair Contract Now yard signs, having our mobile billboard visit the Board of Trustees meeting and summer orientation…
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FAM-L Bargaining, Day 10
We signed a TA today! Your FAM Negotiating Team has been working hard all summer! But we need your help to close this second contract by the end of the month. PACK THE BARGAINING ROOM (in person or on Zoom) on June 22 and June 30 to demand a Fair Contract Now! If you take…
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FAM-T Bargaining, Day 11
Faculty Bargaining Update for 6/15/26 Did you see FAM’s mobile billboard driving around Oxford over Alumni weekend? We want Miami alumni to join us in demanding a Fair Contract Now for faculty and librarians. One of our mobile billboard messages read “Do You Want Your Professor to Be Replaced by AI? We don’t! The Future…
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FAM-T Bargaining, Day 10
Today at faculty bargaining, FAM and management exchanged two package proposals with several important articles each: We aligned more closely with management’s structure on Compensation, while continuing to demand raises that would for most members amount to a 15+% pay increase over 3 years, including a one-time $5k increase to base salary in addition to…
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FAM-T Bargaining, Day 9
people are getting wise to AI In today’s faculty bargaining session, FAM shared proposals on Benefits; Appointment and Promotion of Tenure-Track and Tenured Faculty; Appointment, Renewal, and Promotion of TCPL Faculty; Shared Governance; Labor Management Meetings; Management Rights; and Separability. Management made some encouraging movement toward our position in an economic package that included Compensation,…
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FAM-T Bargaining, Day 8 and FAM-L Bargaining, Day 9
FAM bargained last Friday, May 22 on behalf of faculty and today, May 27 on behalf of librarians. This is a double bargaining update covering both sessions. We are standing firm We are standing firm on Compensation, Benefits, Academic Freedom for librarians, and our members’ other top priorities. On both the faculty and librarian sides,…
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FAM-L Bargaining, Day 7
At librarian bargaining today, management presented a Benefits proposal that is completely unacceptable. They want us to agree to language allowing them to change our Benefits without our input. FAM is not accepting management’s last Compensation proposal, which is based on magic numbers that have not been decided yet. To the great annoyance of management,…