The BOT and UFF bargaining teams met on June 14 to continue negotiation of the Salaries article. The unresolved categories are Performance Increases, Departmental Merit Increases, Deans’ Merit Increases, Market Equity Increases, Administrative Discretionary Increases, and the UFF’s proposed Administrative Commensurate Compensation Increases. (The teams are not proposing changes to Promotion Increases or to Sustained […]
Bargaining Update 6/23/17 Read Post »
Dear Colleagues: The most recent of the on-going weekly meetings between the BOT and UFF faculty bargaining teams was held Monday, June 5, and centered on the Salaries article. Neither team is proposing changes to Promotion Increases or to Sustained Performance Increases, and so the discussion centered on the other increase categories. The session began
Bargaining Update 6/10/17 Read Post »
Dear Colleagues: The BOT and UFF bargaining teams have continued to meet weekly since our last Update of May 21, although recent progress has been slow. Discussions of Salary have been ongoing for several sessions, although the teams remain far apart. On the upside, both agree that Promotion Raises and SPI raises should remain at
Bargaining Update: June 1, 2017 Read Post »
The BOT and UFF bargaining teams have been meeting regularly since late March and have made progress on several articles. Discussions of Salary have been ongoing for the last two bargaining sessions. Because University employees are excluded for the first time in memory from raises targeted to other state employees, negotiations are particularly important this
Bargaining Update 5-22-17 Read Post »
The annual bargaining of the Collective Bargaining Agreement began March 8th with the exchange of open articles by the Board of Trustees (BOT) and the UFF. Salaries is of course open and each side is allowed to open two articles each year with the full agreement open every 3 years. This post will be updated
2017-2018 Collective Bargaining Status Read Post »
Dear Colleagues, The BOT and UFF bargaining teams met for three hours on April 12 and discussed several of the opened articles. The discussion of the Tenure Article concerned the BOT’s proposal to switch from a set of 2nd-and-4th-year reviews to a 3rd-year review and the UFF’s position that any such switch would need to
Bargaining Update 4-19-17 Read Post »
The FSU-BOT team and the UFF-FSU team met on March 29 to begin bargaining for the 2017-18 contract. This is a “limited re-opener” year, which means that teams can open two articles each in addition to Art. 23 Salaries, which is automatically reopened. Each side officially notified the other on March 8 about which articles they
Bargaining Update 3-29-17 Read Post »
As you may know, the Legislature officially convenes the 2017 Session on Tuesday, March 7th. Higher Education issues have been front and center during the committee process in recent weeks. There are a number of bills that directly affect our campus. On Wednesday, February 8, the Senate Higher Education Appropriations Subcommittee voted 5-1 to support
Talk to your Legislators! Read Post »
First, I want to thank President Thrasher for his recent memo encouraging tolerance and mutual respect in the wake of the election. I don’t know what the response of your students has been. It certainly varies with politics and discipline. But as someone who teaches small classes and one-on-one lessons, it’s been a difficult couple
As you are well aware, we are in the last days of one of the most consequential election cycles in our history. We have a choice to make in two weeks, and the options before us could not be more different. Victory in the State of Florida is critical to both parties, and we have a responsibility
EARLY VOTING BEGINS TODAY, OCTOBER 24 Read Post »
