FAM Updates
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FAM-T Bargaining, Day 33
By now, you may have seen the news that management’s lead lawyer on the FAM-T side has stepped away, and will soon be replaced. Read FAM’s statement … Today at FAM-T bargaining, we had many surprisingly productive conversations with management about your top priorities: compensation and job security. FAM began the day by countering on…
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MU spent $7.29 million on outside consultant while denying raises
at the same time they were denying faculty and librarians raises, management paid an outside consulting firm, Bain & Company, $7.29 million. For that money, they could have paid you and your colleagues the raises they denied you in 2023-24 and 2024-25 and walked away with almost $2 million in change.
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FAM-T Bargaining, Day 32
Your Negotiation Team continues to fight for fair evaluations, job security, and benefits for our members. At FAM-T bargaining today, we countered on Leaves, Benefits, Financial Exigency and Academic Reorganization, and presented packages on Faculty Evaluations & Performance Improvement Plans, and Management Rights & Association Rights. These proposals protect our members’ benefits and job security…
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Miami’s concerning new workload policy
The new rubric raises expectations for research, scholarship, and creative activity. Faculty who do not meet those increased expectations will be expected to teach more.
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FAM-L Bargaining, Day 25
We begin today’s bargaining update with a tribute to Dr. Phill Alexander, your Negotiating Team’s first chair and a lead organizer for FAM. FAM mourns the loss of our beloved colleague, who worked tirelessly on behalf of his colleagues and for a better Miami to help organize and lead our union. Read our tribute to…
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A Tribute to Dr. Phill Alexander
FAM mourns the loss of our beloved colleague and FAM leader, Dr. Phill Alexander. Phill was Assistant Professor of Emerging Technology + Business Design (ETBD) at Miami, a Games Studies professor and scholar and a key architect of the Games + Simulation major. Phill’s teaching and research interests included game studies, Cherokee / Indigenous rhetorics,…
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Librarians Publish Open Letter to Jerome Conley, Dean of University Libraries
“We are writing to you today to ask you to add your voice to our own: to advocate for us and the resources we need, for the good of our students, our community, the University, and the Libraries.” On November 20, 2024, twenty-five Miami librarians signed an open letter to Jerome Conley, Dean of University…
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Community programs put at risk by Miami leadership
Long-running community programs in the city of Oxford and beyond are being put at risk by Miami leadership. They are saying that public work is outside the scope of librarian duties. This means librarian services to our local community — work librarians value and love — will end or be radically diminished.
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FAM-L Bargaining, Day 24
work as many hours as management wants — or leave Today at FAM-L bargaining, management told librarians that working regularly in excess of 40 hours every week is just fine, super normal, and if we don’t like it we can find work elsewhere. This is unacceptable. We voted unanimously to form a union because we…