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Bargaining Update and Ratification Voting

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Bargaining News, Non-Tenure-Track Faculty, Uncategorized

Bargaining Update and Ratification Voting

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UFF faculty and Administration/BOT teams concluded negotiations for fiscal 2012-13 in late Ocotober, including an agreement on Specialized (NTT) Faculty Reclassifications. Ratification voting for faculty is tentatively scheduled for December 4-5th. Revisions to the current contract are fairly extensive, and we encourage faculty members to begin their review of the tentatively agreed changes as soon as […]

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Bargaining News, Uncategorized

Bargaining Update

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UFF faculty and Administration/BOT teams reached tentative agreement recently on salaries, promotion, and tenure for the 2012-13 contract year.  A brief summary of changes follows.  Details on the tentative agreements are available via links further below.  The teams will resume negotiations Wednesday morning at 9am, with benefits and the specialized faculty (NTTF) reclassification project as

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Bargaining News, Florida Legislation, Uncategorized

Bargaining Update and Higher Ed Policies

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Bargaining Update: Recently the Administration/BOT and UFF faculty teams reached tentative agreement on new language for Article 10 on Performance Evaluation and on Winter Break. Key changes in Article 10 include a more detailed five-point performance rating scale sought by the Admin/BOT and a ban on forced distributions sought by the faculty team. Some of

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Bargaining News, Faculty Senate, Faculty Senate Reports, Non-Tenure-Track Faculty, Uncategorized

Faculty Senate Report on University Welfare

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Report on University Welfare for Faculty Senate, September 19th, 2012 By Professor Jack Fiorito, Senator and UFF-FSU President Good afternoon!  In view of the late hour and that we have already had a report on collective bargaining from President Barron, I will try to be brief. Collective Bargaining As President Barron suggested, budget cuts and

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Bargaining News, Salary Issues, Uncategorized

Bargaining Update – Promotion Increases Delayed?

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Today, your UFF-FSU bargaining team offered to immediately sign off on promotion increases of 12% for promotion to Associate and 15% for promotion to Full. Unfortunately, negotiations stalled because of the Administration’s insistence on linking promotion increases (the amounts of which are not in dispute) to Administrative Discretionary Increases (ADIs). We have been informed that

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Bargaining News, Florida Legislation, Political Action, Uncategorized

Faculty Shared Governance

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“’Shared governance’ is much revered by faculty, but it adds vastly to administrative costs and stifles innovation and change.  Shared governance is a byproduct of academic tenure, where faculty members with lifetime appointments face little consequence from trying, often successfully, to obstruct changes that might reduce their power or influence or increase their teaching  load.“

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Bargaining News, Non-Tenure-Track Faculty, UFF-FSU Administration, Uncategorized

UFF/FSU Presidents Consultation

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DRAFT minutes from July 10th’s consultation with President Barron, Provost Stokes, and other administration representatives are now posted at the UFF-FSU web site (www.uff-fsu.org). The URL is: https://uff-fsu.org/art/Mins2012July10Consult-UFFdraft.pdf Charts from the UFF May faculty poll comparing Specialized Faculty (NTTF) and

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Bargaining News, Events, UFF-FSU Administration, Uncategorized

First Friday and Other Upcoming Events

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First Friday will be held from 5-7pm on July 6th at Momo’s Brew Pub, 1410 Market Street. As usual, our UFF-FSU Chapter will provide snacks (pizza!). Refreshing beverages will be available, and faculty members from throughout FSU will provide interesting conversation. Please come out and relax with your colleagues and get informal updates on bargaining

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