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MU spent $7.29 million on outside consultant while denying raises
at the same time they were denying faculty and librarians raises, management paid an outside consulting firm, Bain & Company, $7.29 million. For that money, they could have paid you and your colleagues the raises they denied you in 2023-24 and 2024-25 and walked away with almost $2 million in change.
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Miami’s concerning new workload policy
The new rubric raises expectations for research, scholarship, and creative activity. Faculty who do not meet those increased expectations will be expected to teach more.
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A Tribute to Dr. Phill Alexander
FAM mourns the loss of our beloved colleague and FAM leader, Dr. Phill Alexander. Phill was Assistant Professor of Emerging Technology + Business Design (ETBD) at Miami, a Games Studies professor and scholar and a key architect of the Games + Simulation major. Phill’s teaching and research interests included game studies, Cherokee / Indigenous rhetorics,…
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Librarians Publish Open Letter to Jerome Conley, Dean of University Libraries
“We are writing to you today to ask you to add your voice to our own: to advocate for us and the resources we need, for the good of our students, our community, the University, and the Libraries.” On November 20, 2024, twenty-five Miami librarians signed an open letter to Jerome Conley, Dean of University…
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Community programs put at risk by Miami leadership
Long-running community programs in the city of Oxford and beyond are being put at risk by Miami leadership. They are saying that public work is outside the scope of librarian duties. This means librarian services to our local community — work librarians value and love — will end or be radically diminished.
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FAM-T Bargaining, Day 31
Thanks to yesterday’s March for Thanks, we won three major agreements on our 439th day without a contract. YOU did this!
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FAM-T Bargaining, Days 29 & 30
A special joint bargaining update FAM-T bargained back to back yesterday and today, working hard for our members to get a FAIR CONTRACT NOW. It’s great to see the strong turnout for bargaining yesterday and today! Your visible support of FAM negotiations matters! Download your Stop Stalling Zoom background here: tinyurl.com/StopStall. We passed across Compensation,…
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FAM(ily) Weekend Actions: Successful Practice Picket
It’s Family Weekend at Miami University and FAM is out in force to build support across the Miami community. FAM carried out a practice picket, is leafleting all weekend, and will fly a plane with a FAM banner during the Ohio-Miami football game. FAM demands that Miami management negotiate in good faith.
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Mid-Fall Bargaining Overview
The pressure you are putting on is resulting in movement at the table! Only about 15 proposals remain to negotiate, with compensation and job security the two major sticking points remaining.