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Bargaining Update – Promotion Increases Delayed?

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

“’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

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

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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Bargaining News, Florida Legislation, UFF-FSU Flyers/Adverts, UFF-FSU Reports, Uncategorized

Highlights and Comments from the May, 2012 FSU Faculty Poll

An expanded edition of the report on the May, 2012 FSU Faculty Poll is now available at the www.uff-fsu.org web site, or via direct link at: https://uff-fsu.org/art/May2012FacPollResultsAll-Post.pdf This edition includes hundreds of faculty comments that help to clarify and elaborate on the meaning of the quantitative results released last week.  The quantitative results appear in

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Bargaining News, Florida Legislation, UFF-FSU Reports, Uncategorized

Preliminary May, 2012 Poll: Barron Rocks, Pols Reek

More than 500 FSU faculty members responded to the UFF-FSU poll earlier this month.  This constitutes approximately 31% of UFF-represented FSU faculty (1600+ members of the General Faculty Bargaining Unit).  Preliminary tabulations are available at: https://uff-fsu.org/art/May2012FacPollResultsNC-Post.pdf

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Bargaining News, Uncategorized

Merit Bonus and Other Updates

In response to a UFF-FSU Facilitation request and meeting (see Sec. 20.8(a) of the Collective Bargaining Agreement), FSU Administration representatives notified UFF-FSU representatives on Monday that additional merit bonus distributions will be made in several colleges and other academic units.  The Facilitation was initiated because UFF-FSU analysis indicated certain units distributed less bonus funds than called for

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Bargaining News, Florida Legislation, UFF-FSU Reports, Uncategorized

Report on University Welfare for Faculty Senate, April 18th, 2012

By Professor Jack Fiorito, Senator and UFF-FSU President “Welcome” to new, continuing, and returning Senators. This is a good time to review the roles of the Senate and of the United Faculty of Florida (UFF). The Faculty Senate is the voice of the faculty on academic matters, and can express its opinion on “any subject

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