Category: FAM-L Bargaining
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Why Students Support FAM—Dylan Halpin
“For students, our professors hold a special place in our hearts.”
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“Work-life balance that allows us to serve our students”—Jenny Presnell
To devalue our scholarship and teaching affects the quality of education we all provide to Miami students.
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FAM-L Bargaining, Day 9: 75 hours a week
FAM: “What happens if every week is a 75-hour workweek?” Management: “Then you work 75 hours every week.”
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FAM-L Bargaining, Day 8
Your joint faculty-librarian negotiating team continued to make good progress at the FAM-L bargaining table today. Proposals and Agreements FAM’s proposal on compensation seeks to assure fair wages for our librarians. It would restore our purchasing power eroded from inflation and years of below-market salaries. It seeks transparency and greater predictability and will increase parity…
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All-Unit Meeting! State of Bargaining
Join members of your Negotiating Team for FAM’s State of Bargaining event, happening on two dates in two formats (in person and Zoom) to ensure all can attend. State of Bargaining All-Unit Meeting Representatives from the FAM Negotiating Team will discuss proposals and progress so far, explain what to expect in spring semester, and answer…
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FAM-L Bargaining Update, Day 7
We continued to make substantial progress at the table today, including a tentative agreement on an article on Separability to ensure the contract will continue to protect you even if a specific provision is rendered invalid by a law or verdict. Top Things to Know What else happened today? Other articles that were discussed at…
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FAM-L Bargaining, December 15
Your united FAM-L/FAM-T negotiating team worked many long hours this semester to lay the groundwork for a strong foundational contract. In the new year, once all proposals have been exchanged and as membership continues to grow, we’ll start to see the fruits of their labor. To set the table for productive negotiations this spring, before…
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FAM-L Bargaining, Day 4
Before we report, a reminder to attend Faculty Assembly this Thursday, November 30 at 4:15pm, 102 Benton. This special Faculty Assembly was called by a petition signed by 117 faculty. Their resolution — to preserve shared governance by reinstating the All-Faculty Committee for Evaluation of Administrators — can be voted on if a quorum of…