Some brief updates that may be of interest: 1. Implementation of ratified changes to our UFF-FSU Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) is proceeding. At least some promotion raises, now at 12% and 15%, with back-pay to early August, were implemented in December, and at least some merit raises are slated for implementation by January 25th. Implementation […]
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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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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
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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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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The UFF-FSU Chapter will host a luncheon featuring our new VP for Faculty Development and Advancement, Sally McRorie, on Wednesday, Sept. 26th at 12:30pm in the Oglesby Union’s Florida Room. A postable flyer with more information is available at: https://uff-fsu.org/art/fly20120926McRorie.pdf
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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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“’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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The UFF-FSU faculty negotiating team presented proposals on four articles at July 18th’s session. These proposals and a link to each are:
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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