FAM Updates
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FAM Index
Average annual raise FAM has proposed to help address increases in your cost of living: 7%. Management raise proposal: 1.4%. Cost of FAM pay proposal annually: $15 million. Average Miami surplus over last ten years: $109 million. Miami’s rank among Ohio public universities for financial viability and net income: 1 and 1.
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“Miami University is in very strong financial condition.”
Bunsis explained that Miami can easily afford FAM’s pay proposals without touching reserves. Faculty salaries are well below Miami-identified peer institutions at all campuses.
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FAM-L Bargaining, Day 27
After a rousing collective action at the Board of Trustees in the morning, at which 100+ FAM librarians and faculty demanded FAIR RAISES NOW and hand-delivered holiday cards to the Trustees, FAM-L came through with three more Tentative Agreements in addition to the four from last session: We also passed across a new package counter…
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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.
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Melanie Ziegler: “Possible desecration of iconic green space has brought me to my first-ever Trustees Meeting”
The very thought of such a possible desecration of the most iconic green space and soul of this university is what has brought me here to attend my first ever Trustees meeting and to appeal to your better judgment.
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Ken Irwin: “Before slashing what serves this institution and its students, understand what you stand to lose”
We are told that it’s ok if we’re routinely working 60 or 70 hour weeks, and that we can leave if we don’t like it. Is this how you retain a great library staff?
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Elena Jackson Albarrán: “New proposed workload norms put [Miami’s] teacher-scholar balance in peril”
A literal application of the current workload metric as it stands would radically destabilize the educational ecosystem that we have now. A more tempered, sensitive model needs to be developed in collaboration with faculty as part of shared governance.
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100+ Faculty and Librarians Demand a Fair Contract Now at the Board of Trustees Meeting
Faculty and librarians handed out holiday cards to Miami’s trustees while chanting “FAIR CONTRACT NOW” on our 471st day of negotiations. Speakers pointed out that the University’s current spending priorities hurt students by diverting large sums from academics to outside consultants, new sports arenas, and outside legal counsel.
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FAM-L Bargaining, Day 26
Huge Win on Vacation Pay! Thanks to FAM, all Miami staff will now be paid during holiday closings instead of having to take mandatory vacation days. FAM and Miami management today signed a landmark agreement ensuring fair pay for mandatory closing days during Winter Break. Since contract negotiations began, FAM has insisted the university reverse…
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Will legal trouble for Miami’s outside counsel create further delays?
By now, members of our community may have heard the news that management’s lead lawyer on the FAM-T side has stepped away and will soon be replaced. FAM, AAUP-AFT has been negotiating with Miami University for almost 470 days. In that time, we have faced numerous delays on the part of the university. We hope…