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Faculty Voices: Why We are Voting Yes
Faculty across disciplines, divisions, ranks and categories share their reasons for unionizing in our new Faculty Voices quotebook — check it out!
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Librarians to vote!
Librarians at the FAM Prom on Friday, April 7 GREAT NEWS: FAM’s proposed librarian bargaining unit has been agreed to by the Miami administration. Our librarians can move forward with a vote!Next, we’ll work on the election consent agreement with Miami administration. We hope for a vote sometime this summer. If you’re a librarian who…
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APRIL UPDATES FROM FAM
It’s almost time to vote yes! Voting for your union begins April 18 and continues through May 2. To count, your confidential ballot must be correctly filled out (please mark your vote with an X, not some other mark!) and mailed within this two-week window. Check the Election Countdown at famiami.org! Vote in solidarity. The best way…
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Miami Faculty, Get Ready to Vote!
We are thrilled to share that tenure-line and TCPL faculty will soon be able to vote to form a faculty collective bargaining unit at Miami University! This is a historic moment made possible by Miami faculty’s hard organizing work over the last three years. Voting will occur via mail ballot between April 18 and May…
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Miami LIbrarians file for recognition as collective bargaining unit
Great news: just one week after the SERB decision announcing that the first FAM collective bargaining unit would be tenured, tenure-track and TCPL faculty, librarians have filed today to form their own bargaining unit.CONGRATULATIONS to our amazing librarians. Here’s the press release we’ve just shared: Miami University Librarians File for Recognition as Collective Bargaining Unit…
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Time to Vote & Keep Organizing! #OneFaculty
On March 9, the State Employment Review Board (SERB) ruled that FAM’s first bargaining unit will include tenured and tenure-track faculty and TCPL. The judge decided to exclude librarians, hybrid faculty-staff and visiting faculty. T/TT and TCPL will be eligible to vote in the upcoming election. It’s unfair and disappointing that many non-tenure-track colleagues who…
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“Everyone in this room shares the goal of providing an excellent learning environment for our students”
Professor Deborah Lyons is a member of the Department of French, Italian and Classical Studies and an affiliate in the Women’s and Gender Studies Program at Miami University. She delivered this speech at the Board of Trustees public meeting on March 3, 2023. Thank you for the opportunity to speak to you today. I am Deborah Lyons, from the Department…
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Proving to the Board of Trustees that We Are One Faculty
On Friday, March 3, 2023 in Marcum Center, a brilliant group of our colleagues were awarded tenure — the strongest protection for academic freedom there is, but one that’s under threat all over the country. In this uncertain legislative environment, a union contract can defend against threats to academic freedom. That’s why a large group of…
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“Respect and value your faculty. Let us vote.”
Professor Theresa Kulbaga is a member of the English Department and the Languages, Literatures and Writing Department at Miami University. She is also a faculty affiliate of American Studies & Women’s and Gender Studies. She delivered this speech at the Board of Trustees public meeting on March 3, 2023. Hi, and thanks for hearing me today.…