FAM Updates
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A Win for FAM on Timely Summer Pay!
FAM pressured management to do the right thing and not make excuses for missed or delayed payroll.
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FAM-L Bargaining, Day 18
We’re fighting for fair pay and transparency in the promotion system! Today was a red-hot day at the FAM-L table: we passed across no fewer than six counter-proposals on key priorities: Compensation; Librarian Promotion, Continuing Contract, and Evaluation; Librarian Ranks; Personnel Committee; and Salary Adjustment Studies. On compensation, we are working hard to ensure that…
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FAM-L Bargaining, Day 17
At FAM-L bargaining today, we presented counters on Union Access to Information and Facilities, Association Rights, and Management Rights. Management keeps rejecting our Association Rights proposal, but we are standing firm. Our proposal will strengthen our already-unanimous union by ensuring our members get service recognition for their hard work in improving working conditions! Our members…
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FAM-T Bargaining, Day 22
FAM held fast to our Compensation proposal today at FAM-T bargaining. In response to management’s unacceptable 1.4% average annual salary increment, we held to our numbers (a robust 7% average annual salary increment, with a total raise over three years of the contract would be 26.5%) while compromising with some of management’s language, timelines, and…
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FAM-T Bargaining, Day 21
Today at the FAM-T bargaining table, we presented a reworked proposal on Academic Freedom, which is of paramount importance for our members and is essential for preserving Miami University’s primary educational mission. The four traditional aspects of academic freedom include freedom of research, freedom of teaching, freedom of extramural speech, and freedom of intramural speech;…
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FAM-T Bargaining, Day 20
Today was a super productive day at FAM-T bargaining: we came to two tentative agreements (TAs) and signed one MOU on Artificial Intelligence. The AI MOU is a significant win, and here’s the scoop: after rejecting our AI proposal last semester, management set up an AI task force to find out how AI impacts our…
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FAM-L Bargaining, Day 16
Today at FAM-L bargaining, we exchanged several important counters on Grievance and Arbitration, Librarian Ranks, Parking, and Vacation and Holidays. Regarding vacay, we had a lively exchange with management about librarians being forced to take vacation days on days when the university is closed — a practice that we would like to change for our…
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FAM-L Bargaining, Day 15
Management’s compensation and benefits proposals dropped today. Their Compensation proposal provides a mere 1.25% annual salary increase (after an initial signing increase of 2%) and a flat rate for all promotion increases (a smaller increase than current practice). Our proposal, by contrast, would provide librarians with a substantial cost of living increase annually of 7%…
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FAM-T Bargaining, Day 19
Our first negotiations of the summer were red-hot — we proposed four counters, including one that would clarify how faculty can be evaluated and one strengthening the job protections of TCPL faculty. Importantly, we vehemently re-rejected management’s language creating a new, unnecessary, and punitive post-tenure review process. We countered on discipline and discharge, and we…