Faculty Alliance of Miami: FAM

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  • FAM-L Bargaining, Day 13

    FAM-L Bargaining, Day 13

    Today at FAM-L bargaining, our negotiating team worked to protect librarians’ promotion, tenure, and evaluation process and advocate for more manageable workloads. Meanwhile, management presented “solutions” that miss the realities of librarians’ day-to-day work — promotion procedures that put librarians’ progress at risk; arguing that service and scholarship don’t count as part of day-to-day work…

  • 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…

  • For transparency and accountability, we need faculty on the Board of Trustees

    [Note: This post was mistakenly left unposted in late October 28, 2020. We are posting it now for the record. We are grateful to faculty for turning out in such numbers to support and vote for the Faculty Assembly Resolution, which passed at the end of fall semester.] Is Senate advice — advice that represents…