FAM Updates
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FAM-L Bargaining, Day 9: 75 hours a week
FAM: “What happens if every week is a 75-hour workweek?” Management: “Then you work 75 hours every week.”
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FAM-T Bargaining, Day 11
At Jan. 31 faculty contract negotiations, while management continued to try to limit our contract as much as possible, FAM kept up the fight to strengthen our working conditions and protections. Academic Freedom and Grievance & Arbitration We passed counter-proposals on Academic Freedom and Grievance and Arbitration—both articles are extremely important to higher education. At…
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FAM-T Bargaining, Day 10
FAM-T was back at the table today for the first time since December 19. Today was another day where FAM’s bargaining team proposed articles that your faculty surveys indicated are top priority: benefits. Our proposals on health, vision, and dental insurance center around lowering costs for our members, protecting our benefits, and strengthening our university…
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FAM-L Bargaining, Day 8
Your joint faculty-librarian negotiating team continued to make good progress at the FAM-L bargaining table today. Proposals and Agreements FAM’s proposal on compensation seeks to assure fair wages for our librarians. It would restore our purchasing power eroded from inflation and years of below-market salaries. It seeks transparency and greater predictability and will increase parity…
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All-Unit Meeting! State of Bargaining
Join members of your Negotiating Team for FAM’s State of Bargaining event, happening on two dates in two formats (in person and Zoom) to ensure all can attend. State of Bargaining All-Unit Meeting Representatives from the FAM Negotiating Team will discuss proposals and progress so far, explain what to expect in spring semester, and answer…
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FAM-L Bargaining Update, Day 7
We continued to make substantial progress at the table today, including a tentative agreement on an article on Separability to ensure the contract will continue to protect you even if a specific provision is rendered invalid by a law or verdict. Top Things to Know What else happened today? Other articles that were discussed at…
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Protected: “I’m writing to share my dismay”
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