On September 25th and 26th the faculty will be asked to ratify and accept or reject the new 3 year contract as negotiated by your bargaining team. A copy showing all changes to the document from the current contract is posted as well as the full text for all Memoranda of Agreement (MOA) that have […]
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Bargaining Update: Agreement Reached! The UFF-FSU and the FSU-BOT reached agreement Wednesday on a three-year contract that includes salary increases and domestic partner benefits. We will send an update with details soon, but here are the highlights.
Bargaining Update September 11, 2013 – Contract negotiations concluded Read Post »
The UFF bargaining team met with the Board of Trustees team on Wednesday Aug 28th and made progress on several open issues. The teams agreed in principle on the text and wording for the Domestic Partner Benefit policy, which you can view here on the 2013 bargaining status page. The BOT team responded to UFF’s salary
Bargaining Update August 28, 2013, salary Read Post »
Here is a list of the status of contract articles open for bargaining in 2013 with links to the signed versions. Article 1 – Recognition – Opened by UFF – Tentatively Agreed Article 2 – Consultation – Opened by both – Tentatively Agreed Article 3 – UFF Rights – Opened by BOT – Withdrawn, no
Collective Bargaining 2013 Status Read Post »
The UFF and BOT bargaining teams met on Wednesday August 21. Much progress has been made. The teams tentatively signed an agreement on Winter Break dates. Also signed were agreements on evaluations to include criteria for evaluating chairs of departments and on appendix A which was updated to include the new specialized faculty positions in the bargaining unit.
Bargaining Update August 21, 2013 Read Post »
Minutes from the May 29 consultation with President Barron, Provost Stokes, and other administration representatives can be found here: Presidents Consultation Minutes 5.29.13
UFF/FSU Presidents Consultation May 2013 Read Post »
This Friday, July 19th, the UFF and the Board of Trustees negotiating teams reached an agreement on promotion raises. This memorandum of agreement continues promotion raises at the same levels as last year. This agreement was reached to avoid any delay in distributing promotion raises at the start of the fall term. The increases will
Bargaining Update July 19, 2013, Memorandum on promotion raises Read Post »
The UFF and BOT bargaining teams met on Monday and reached tentative agreement on 2 articles (9 and 17). The contract section on Assignment of Responsibilities (AOR) is amended. New language allows for on-line management of AOR forms and clarifies the status of Specialized Faculty to co-direct doctoral committees. Art 9-Assignment of Responsibilities TA 2013-07-15
Bargaining Update July 15, 2013, two articles signed Read Post »
Among numerous figures reported to the Trustees by the FSU Administration last week was that the number of FSU tenure and tenure-earning faculty was down 9% from 2006/07 to 2011/12. This figure appeared on p. 10 of the Academic Affairs agenda document at the BOT web site (see http://trustees.fsu.edu/meetings/materials/20130606/Academic-Affairs-Agenda.pdf). It also aligns, generally speaking, with
Incredible Shrinking Faculty Read Post »
Bar charts based on data from our April faculty poll are now available showing college/unit averages for selected variables. Results are shown only for the 10 college/units with 10 more faculty responses in our poll. You can find the charts (and underlying data) at: https://uff-fsu.org/art/collcharts-N10-2013.pdf Bargaining for our 2013-16 Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) resumes tomorrow.
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