FAM Updates
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FAM-T Bargaining, Day 15
After the Bunsis presentation, FAM and management each shared multiple counter-proposals (which you can view at our website). Of special interest is our Faculty Evaluations counter, which protects faculty against bias in student evaluations and provides clarity about how TCPL faculty are evaluated. Most importantly, we rejected management’s overreaching post-tenure review provision, a completely unnecessary and…
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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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Can Miami afford raises for faculty?
Update: View the slides from Howard Bunsis’ Analysis of the Financial Situation of Miami University, presented at Wednesday’s FAM-T bargaining session. If you attend one bargaining session this year, attend the one on Wednesday, March 13. Other important sessions are coming up — but this one is not to be missed because Dr. Howard Bunsis, expert…
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FAM-T Bargaining, Day 14
At the FAM-T table today, we vehemently rejected the administration’s proposal on Management Rights. Their Management Rights proposal gives sweeping and unilateral power to administration, including the power to control the content and style of our teaching—a clear violation of faculty academic freedom. As FAM said at the table, the idea that administration can control…
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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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FAM-T Bargaining, Day 13
This morning, FAM-T finished presenting our complete economic package, including compensation and benefits. We have fully addressed the needs and priorities of our members, and we look forward to fighting to get these in the contract! You can read all proposals and counters at our Proposal Tracker. Proposals passed today include Employee Health Programs, Flexible…
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The Board of Trustees heard loud and clear: “Work With Us Not Against Us”
Standing room only at the Board of Trustees meeting today! A room packed full of FAM-supportive faculty and librarians clapped loudly to celebrate colleagues’ promotions and even louder and longer for the speeches telling the Board that it’s time to Work With Us, Not Against Us.
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FAM-L Bargaining, Day 10
The tone from management was more conciliatory today at FAM-L negotiations, following this morning’s Board of Trustees action (great turnout and solidarity!) and last session’s dramatic ending, in which FAM put management on notice that librarians won our unit unanimously and are prepared to fight for our contract. FAM reaffirmed our stance on academic freedom…
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Why Students Support FAM—Dylan Halpin
“For students, our professors hold a special place in our hearts.”