Author: Theresa Kulbaga
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FAM-L Bargaining, Day 29
Today is our 510th day of bargaining for our first contract. Read our op-ed in the Oxford Free Press, where we argue that lengthy contract negotiations are a union-busting tactic. You deserve a fair contract now! At the bargaining table today, FAM-L reached three more Tentative Agreements (TAs): Management Rights, Association Rights, and Individual and…
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FAM-T Bargaining, Day 35
Today’s FAM-T bargaining session was a whirlwind of exchanged proposals — a total of ten proposals passed back and forth — and these are productive signs that both sides are gaining momentum to close this contract. We are down to key concepts, including compensation and job security, and today we got management to back down on…
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FAM-L Bargaining, Day 28
Today marks nearly 500 days of bargaining Once again, we waited all morning for management to finish their work before finally joining us at the table at almost noon. Today is our 497th day of bargaining, and management continues to stall, delay, and obstruct progress to our first contract. Once we did get to the…
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FAM files a ULP
Management is trying to restrict members’ right to represent FAM We have an important update for our members: today, we filed an Unfair Labor Practice (ULP) against management. This ULP applies to FAM-T (the faculty unit) and not to FAM-L (the librarian unit). What: last month, management tried to introduce language that would restrict our…
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FAM-T Bargaining, Day 34
New Year. New Management Lawyer. New Delays. On our 492nd day of working without a contract, we got to meet Management’s third new lawyer…along with all the other delays Management has brought to the process, including but not limited to: picking arbitrary fights, writing arcane interpretations of Ohio law that teeter on the edge of…
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FAM-L Bargaining, Day 27
After a rousing collective action at the Board of Trustees in the morning, at which 100+ FAM librarians and faculty demanded FAIR RAISES NOW and hand-delivered holiday cards to the Trustees, FAM-L came through with three more Tentative Agreements in addition to the four from last session: Scope of Duties: Recognizes that librarians should work…
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John Schaefer: “Unnecessary hangups like these are why we aren’t finished with this first contract”
Our members are getting frustrated and angry over delays and lack of respect from university administration. We are willing to work through the winter break to finish this contract. We ask the board to direct your team to meet with us again this month so we can make progress.
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Cathy Wagner: “How much employee time is being spent in correcting unreliable data and mistaken assumptions?”
Is it good stewardship to construct budgets that starve our core academic mission of funds? Year on year, we hear of deficits in the Academic Affairs budget that require cuts. But year on year, when we move from budget to actuals, we find that we’re running large surpluses and the “deficit” has vanished.
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Melanie Ziegler: “Possible desecration of iconic green space has brought me to my first-ever Trustees Meeting”
The very thought of such a possible desecration of the most iconic green space and soul of this university is what has brought me here to attend my first ever Trustees meeting and to appeal to your better judgment.