Tag: non-discrimination

  • FAM-L Bargaining, Day 8

    FAM-L Bargaining, Day 8

    Your joint faculty-librarian negotiating team continued to make good progress at the FAM-L bargaining table today. Proposals and Agreements FAM’s proposal on compensation seeks to assure fair wages for our librarians. It would restore our purchasing power eroded from inflation and years of below-market salaries. It seeks transparency and greater predictability and will increase parity…

  • FAM-L Bargaining Update, Day 7

    FAM-L Bargaining Update, Day 7

    We continued to make substantial progress at the table today, including a tentative agreement on an article on Separability to ensure the contract will continue to protect you even if a specific provision is rendered invalid by a law or verdict. Top Things to Know What else happened today? Other articles that were discussed at…

  • FAM-L Day 3 Bargaining Update

    Our team came prepared to protect the intellectual property of librarians, bringing two proposals… Management struck out the protections we proposed extending to our colleagues who face discrimination due to citizenship and immigration status.

  • FAM-L Bargaining: Day 2

    FAM-L Bargaining: Day 2

    The second day of librarian negotiations brought loud and clear messages from Management. They formally rejected FAM’s 2% raise MOU – it is clear that they do not value the labor of our librarians and do not feel that they are worth this raise. They claim that academic freedom is a permissive topic of negotiation…