Author: Jerry Yarnetsky
-
Rally for Raises!
It’s time to choose your future and show management you won’t accept raises averaging only 1.25% over the course of the contract!
-
State of Bargaining: Update to Miami Senate
We have made progress! In several crucial areas, however, there’s still daylight between management’s and FAM’s proposals.
-
FAM-T Bargaining, Day 15
After the Bunsis presentation, FAM and management each shared multiple counter-proposals (which you can view at our website). Of special interest is our Faculty Evaluations counter, which protects faculty against bias in student evaluations and provides clarity about how TCPL faculty are evaluated. Most importantly, we rejected management’s overreaching post-tenure review provision, a completely unnecessary and…
-
FAM-T Bargaining, Day 14
At the FAM-T table today, we vehemently rejected the administration’s proposal on Management Rights. Their Management Rights proposal gives sweeping and unilateral power to administration, including the power to control the content and style of our teaching—a clear violation of faculty academic freedom. As FAM said at the table, the idea that administration can control…
-
FAM-T Bargaining, Day 13
This morning, FAM-T finished presenting our complete economic package, including compensation and benefits. We have fully addressed the needs and priorities of our members, and we look forward to fighting to get these in the contract! You can read all proposals and counters at our Proposal Tracker. Proposals passed today include Employee Health Programs, Flexible…
-
FAM-L Bargaining, Day 10
The tone from management was more conciliatory today at FAM-L negotiations, following this morning’s Board of Trustees action (great turnout and solidarity!) and last session’s dramatic ending, in which FAM put management on notice that librarians won our unit unanimously and are prepared to fight for our contract. FAM reaffirmed our stance on academic freedom…
-
Protected: “I’m writing to share my dismay”
There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.
-
FAM-T Bargaining, Day 8
Nearly 300 of your colleagues attended Faculty Assembly last week, putting the administration on notice that they need to work with us, not against us. Unfortunately, management’s bargaining team was not yet ready to do that this week. In time, they will understand how united you are in your commitment to successful negotiations. The issues…