Category: Bargaining
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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…
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FAM-L Bargaining, Day 12
Today at FAM-L bargaining, management made clear that they will continue to chip away at shared governance and job security for librarians at Miami. While FAM’s proposals aim to improve working conditions for librarians, management is proposing to erode the rights and protections that librarians currently have. For example, management’s proposal on Promotion and Continuing…
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FAM-L Bargaining, Day 11
Today was a proud day for FAM-L: We have now completed submitting our proposed contract articles outlining our vision for librarians at Miami University. Under our proposals, Miami would become a better place to work and study, and we would be able to carry out our mission of high quality education and research more effectively. This…
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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…
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“Miami University is in very strong financial condition.”
Bunsis explained that Miami can easily afford FAM’s pay proposals without touching reserves. Faculty salaries are well below Miami-identified peer institutions at all campuses.
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Can Miami afford raises for faculty?
Update: View the slides from Howard Bunsis’ Analysis of the Financial Situation of Miami University, presented at Wednesday’s FAM-T bargaining session. If you attend one bargaining session this year, attend the one on Wednesday, March 13. Other important sessions are coming up — but this one is not to be missed because Dr. Howard Bunsis, expert…
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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…
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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…
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The Board of Trustees heard loud and clear: “Work With Us Not Against Us”
Standing room only at the Board of Trustees meeting today! A room packed full of FAM-supportive faculty and librarians clapped loudly to celebrate colleagues’ promotions and even louder and longer for the speeches telling the Board that it’s time to Work With Us, Not Against Us.