Tag: Bargaining

  • Rally for Raises!

    Rally for Raises!

    It’s time to choose your future and show management you won’t accept raises averaging only 1.25% over the course of the contract!

  • State of Bargaining: Update to Miami Senate

    State of Bargaining: Update to Miami Senate

    We have made progress! In several crucial areas, however, there’s still daylight between management’s and FAM’s proposals.

  • FAM September Events

    FAM September Events

    Join FAM for FAM-T and FAM-L bargaining and the Rally for Raises coming up September 20! September 12FAM-T Bargaining, Miami University Voice of America Learning Center, 7847 VOA Park Dr, West Chester TownshipIn person or Zoom, about 10:30–5. FAM members are welcome to join the team in the caucus room between bargaining sessions. Click here…

  • FAM-T Bargaining, Day 14

    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…

  • FAM-L Bargaining, Day 10

    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…

  • “It’s time to work with us, not against us”—John Schaefer

    “It’s time to work with us, not against us”—John Schaefer

    FAM was the largest higher ed union formed last year in AAUP-AFT. FAM successfully organized more people than any other effort in the largest higher ed union organization in the country.

  • “Work-life balance that allows us to serve our students”—Jenny Presnell

    “Work-life balance that allows us to serve our students”—Jenny Presnell

    To devalue our scholarship and teaching affects the quality of education we all provide to Miami students.

  • FAM-T Bargaining, Day 10

    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…

  • All-Unit Meeting! State of Bargaining

    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…