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Dear colleagues, The collective bargaining session on Wednesday, September 16 between your UFF faculty bargaining team and the Board of Trustees’ team was productive, but relatively brief and limited in scope. (Perhaps only in collective bargaining would we describe a 2+ hour meeting as “brief!”) Both teams went back and forth on Article 3 (UFF

Dear colleagues, Your UFF-FSU bargaining team met with the FSU BoT team last Friday, September 4 and our session was productive, moving substantially toward agreement. Most consequentially, both sides came to tentative agreement on our brand-new Article 32 on Artificial Intelligence Use. This is the first such contract article in Florida’s higher education system (possibly the

Dear colleagues, On Friday, the Tallahassee Democrat reported that the Board of Trustees has awarded President McCullough an 8% raise, boosting his salary to approximately $1.35M. They also added a $600,000 bonus if he serves out his contract. The UFF-FSU chapter congratulations him on his good fortune and we are glad to continue working with him as our President. In seemingly unrelated

Dear Colleagues, Your UFF-FSU bargaining team met with representatives from FSU’s Board of Trustees on Friday, August 21, for an active session with plenty of movement across several key articles. This is a brief summary of where things stand. We encourage you to read the drafts for yourself and share your feedback with us. We kicked

Dear Colleagues, Your UFF-FSU bargaining team met with the representatives from FSU’s Board of Trustees on Wednesday, August 12 and we had a productive session that moved us closer to agreement, though there are still some considerable gulfs between the two teams’ proposals. This is just a brief summary, but I would encourage you to

Dear Colleagues, During our last bargaining session on July 29th, the UFF-FSU team presented a new salary proposal that includes an ‘Administrative Parity’ clause (see below). The BOT Bargaining Team ended the bargaining session somewhat abruptly after we submitted this proposal and they did not accept our request to meet on August 5. However, the

Dear FSU Colleagues, The BOT and UFF-FSU teams met July 22 and discussed Article 23 (Salaries), Article 17 (Leaves), Article 32 (Artificial Intelligence), and Article 10 (Performance Evaluations) and the corresponding Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) for the pilot program for In-unit Chair Reviews. We also presented a new MOA that would, if the BOT team

Dear FSU Colleagues, The FSU Board of Trustees (BOT) and United Faculty of Florida FSU (UFF-FSU) bargaining teams resumed negotiations for the 2026-2027 collective bargaining agreement (CBA) on Wednesday, July 15.  The negotiators were joined by several additional FSU faculty members in person and via Zoom.  The presence of these observers was greatly appreciated by

Dear FSU Colleagues, Thank you to our many faculty colleagues who attended bargaining in person and online on July 1. Your presence in the bargaining room truly made a huge difference, and we hope that the show of support will continue at the next bargaining session, scheduled for July 15 from 2-5pm (location to be determined). This

Dear Colleagues, The June 24 bargaining session between your UFF team and the Board of Trustees was, to say the least, alarming. After seven weeks of bargaining, the BOT team finally responded to our proposals for salary (Art. 23), leaves (Art. 17), and AI Use (Art. 32). For next year’s salary increases, they offered us