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-T Bargaining, Day 17
FAM-T had a great session at the negotiating table today. Our biggest win was being recognized as a university group to use campus facilities. Management has pushed back against this effort for months, but we won! The union is not a third party—it’s us. Our wins today were fueled by our recent organizing actions at…
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FAM-L Bargaining, Day 14
It was a busy day at the FAM-L table today, protecting our job security and rights with nearly a dozen proposals and agreements discussed. Most importantly, we made progress on the key Discipline and Discharge proposal that prohibits arbitrary action and assures fair and equitable working conditions. We moved forward with proposals on health and…
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FAM-T Bargaining, Day 16: What Management Thinks You’re Worth
1.4% pay increase for faculty, on average, per year. That’s only a 5.9% pay increase over the course of the contract. That’s management’s compensation proposal, presented at today’s FAM-T bargaining session. This sharply contrasts with FAM’s pay proposal, which calls for 29% over the course of the contract1—an average of 7% per year including the…
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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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Why Miami Suspended the Administrator Evaluation Committee
With the announcement of the new process for evaluating administrators, the fog surrounding the suspension of the Administrator Evaluation Committee has finally cleared. Management’s new process makes clear that the reason given for suspending the old process — that it risks direct dealing — was never the actual reason. (“Direct dealing” is when a boss negotiates directly with an individual employee on wages or working…
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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-L Bargaining, Day 12
Today at FAM-L bargaining, management made clear that they will continue to chip away at shared governance and job security for librarians at Miami. While FAM’s proposals aim to improve working conditions for librarians, management is proposing to erode the rights and protections that librarians currently have. For example, management’s proposal on Promotion and Continuing…
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FAM-L Bargaining, Day 11
Today was a proud day for FAM-L: We have now completed submitting our proposed contract articles outlining our vision for librarians at Miami University. Under our proposals, Miami would become a better place to work and study, and we would be able to carry out our mission of high quality education and research more effectively. This…