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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 September Events
Join FAM for FAM-T and FAM-L bargaining and the Rally for Raises coming up September 20! September 12FAM-T Bargaining, Miami University Voice of America Learning Center, 7847 VOA Park Dr, West Chester TownshipIn person or Zoom, about 10:30–5. FAM members are welcome to join the team in the caucus room between bargaining sessions. Click here…
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A Win for FAM on Timely Summer Pay!
FAM pressured management to do the right thing and not make excuses for missed or delayed payroll.
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AI affects our working conditions and must be negotiated
A message from FAM’s Negotiating Team: Dear colleagues, As your FAM Negotiating Team, we have an update about bargaining, specifically as it concerns artificial intelligence (AI) and the new AI task force: We have sent University management a cease-and-desist letter regarding the AI task force they created. This is not because we don’t value faculty…
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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 Political Education Meeting!
It’s time to end gerrymandering in Ohio! For our universities, schools and communities. We can do it.
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Protected: “I’m writing to share my dismay”
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Anti-higher-ed, anti-labor bill SB 83 passes committee: call lawmakers!
We are sorry to report that SB 83 passed out of committee this morning and could go to the House floor soon. This bill is a true threat to student education, academic freedom, and faculty livelihoods. It is so unpopular — over 700 testimonies and tens of thousands of letters in opposition since March — that its supporters had to turn…
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Daniel Hall: “A cooperative process…is better for the administrator, the University, and the faculty”
A cooperative process, as has been the Miami way for decades, is better for the administrator, the University, and the faculty.