Category: FAM-L Bargaining
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FAM-L Bargaining, Day 25
We begin today’s bargaining update with a tribute to Dr. Phill Alexander, your Negotiating Team’s first chair and a lead organizer for FAM. FAM mourns the loss of our beloved colleague, who worked tirelessly on behalf of his colleagues and for a better Miami to help organize and lead our union. Read our tribute to…
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FAM-L Bargaining, Day 24
work as many hours as management wants — or leave Today at FAM-L bargaining, management told librarians that working regularly in excess of 40 hours every week is just fine, super normal, and if we don’t like it we can find work elsewhere. This is unacceptable. We voted unanimously to form a union because we…
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FAM-L Bargaining, Day 23
Today at FAM-L bargaining, it was clear that the people at management’s table were not the ones making the decisions. Instead, they are being forced by upper administration to stall this deal. Who on their side is really making the decisions and why aren’t they at the table themselves? By contrast, we are a united…
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FAM-L Bargaining, Day 22
Academic freedom is essential to librarians’ role supporting the crucial work of faculty and students — but management doesn’t believe librarians should have it.
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Theresa Kulbaga on management’s efforts to undo existing job security
“They want to make it easier to fire tenured faculty. They are trying to undo current TCPL job protections that came about through years of shared governance. They are refusing to put existing job security and promotion policies for librarians into the contract.”
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FAM-L Bargaining, Day 21
Movement at the table today 💪🏽 A full and robust session today, with lots of forward movement. We came to a Tentative Agreement (TA) on Librarian Ranks, which provides clarity on each librarian rank. FAM-Librarians and Miami management also quickly shared multiple versions of other articles, including a combined package on Academic Freedom and Discipline…
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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!
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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.
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FAM-L Bargaining, Day 20
Today at FAM-L bargaining, we signed a tentative agreement (TA) on Appointment Notices. The agreed upon article will help librarians better understand the conditions and expectations for their initial appointment as a librarian to the University. We also passed counters focused on protecting and clarifying your job security and benefits, including Grievance & Arbitration and Leaves…