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The UFF-FSU and Administration/Board of Trustees teams have concluded negotiations for the 2025-2028 Collective Bargaining Agreement. We reached Tentative Agreements on ten articles, five appendices, and two Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) documents. The 2022-2025 Collective Bargaining Agreement, as previously amended, can be found here. Below are summaries of the Tentatively Agreed upon language. You can click

Dear FSU Colleagues, We are happy to announce that we have settled all open articles for the 2025-2028 Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA)! The teams met on Wednesday to discuss Article 23, Salaries, and after several rounds of proposals and a clear signal that the BOT team was at the limit, we settled on the following:

Dear Colleagues, We have good news to report from last week (August 21)’s bargaining session. After many weeks of negotiations, the UFF and Board of Trustees teams have tentatively agreed to language on Articles 17 (Leaves) and 18 (Inventions and Works).  Article 18 (Inventions and Works) We finally arrived at a definition of “Scope of

Dear colleagues, At last week’s second bargaining session (on Thursday, August 14) we made even more progress on Article 17 (Leaves) and I think that we are very close to agreement. We also took a baby step in our salary negotiations—the administration has moved from 1.7% raises up to 1.8% raises (combined across-the-board and departmental merit). Here

Dear colleagues, I am happy to report some progress in bargaining this week: we made substantial improvements to both Article 17 (Leaves) and to Article 18 (Inventions and Works) during our August 11 bargaining session. I wish I had good news to report about Article 23 (Salaries), but the administration is still only offering a

Dear FSU Colleagues, Our latest bargaining session was held on Wednesday, August 6. Your UFF-FSU faculty team and the Board of Trustees’ team discussed salaries (Article 23), leaves (Article 17), and inventions and works (Article 18). The good news is that the BOT team agreed to sign the Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) that we proposed

Dear FSU Colleagues, Our latest bargaining session was held on Thursday, July 31. Your UFF-FSU faculty team and the Board of Trustees’ team discussed salaries (Article 23), parental and family leaves (Article 17), and inventions and works (Article 18). The BOT team first presented their latest proposal for Article 18, Inventions and Works. The sticking

Dear colleagues, Our latest bargaining session was held on Monday afternoon, July 28. Your UFF-FSU faculty team and the Board of Trustees’ team discussed salaries (Article 23), parental and family leaves (Article 17), and inventions and works (Article 18). We were disappointed with how things went. I thought that we were close to agreement on

Dear FSU Colleagues, At our June 4 bargaining session, we continued to discuss intellectual property rights for faculty.  The Board of Trustees team responded to our counter of Article 18, Inventions and Works, and as explained below, in a win for faculty, they offered to trade status quo language in Article 19, Conflict of Interest,