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We Stand With International Students and Colleagues
April 16, 2025 The Trump administration has intensified its attacks on international faculty and students: refusing scholars entry into the country due to their political viewpoints, stripping students of their legal status and revoking visas, and seizing students in preparation for deportation, including in Ohio. These actions, brazen attacks on the First Amendment and the…
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Miami University’s Faculty and Librarian Union Ratifies First Contracts
March 11, 2025 Oxford, Ohio – The Faculty Alliance of Miami (FAM, AAUP-AFT) has ratified its first faculty and librarian contracts with overwhelming support: 95% of faculty and 100% of librarians voted yes. FAM members also voted to adopt the constitution (94%). This marks a significant achievement in the union’s ongoing efforts to enhance job…
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FAM-L Bargaining, Day 30
Now more than ever, we must stand together as a union. Across the country and state, we see attacks on workers’ rights, rising costs of living, and corporate interests trying to weaken the very organizations that fight for fair wages, safe working conditions, and respect on the job. We see legislative and executive attacks on…
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FAM, AAUP-AFT statement: We Must Stand Together
Across the country and state, we are seeing attacks on workers’ rights, education and on the most vulnerable members of our campus and community. But here’s the truth: when we stand together, we win.
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“Don’t Freeze Us Out” Practice Picket
On the first day of classes, January 27, let’s get out in the street and demand that Miami management stop freezing us out. Show your strength, FAM! RSVP here. What: “Don’t Freeze Us Out!” Practice Picket* 🪧. Wear anything red you have over your jacket (use your FAM tee as a scarf!)When: Monday, January 27, 12:30–1:30pmWhere:…
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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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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.