Dear Colleagues, Our latest collective bargaining session had some significant developments.  We started with presentations by the BOT team, since the UFF-FSU team had responded to all open articles at the last session. The BOT team presented two new articles, Article 18, Inventions and Works, and Article 19, Conflict of Interest along with a response to […]

On Monday after an olympic style, five-hour marathon bargaining session, our 16th, the UFF and Board of Trustees came to an agreement on changes to the collective bargaining agreement. Here are the five signed tentative agreement documents. Opened at the behest of the Board of Trustees bargaining team, “Article 10 Performance Evaluations” with modifications for

Dear FSU Colleagues, On July 31, the two teams met for the fourteenth time. Thanks to all those who attended and gave input! Please note that we will meet once again today, 2-5pm, to hear the BOT’s response to the proposals we presented. We presented proposals for the following articles: ·         Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) that would assure

Dear colleagues, Our thirteenth bargaining session of this bargaining season was held on Wednesday, July 24. Here’s a brief update on where we are in the process. After presenting us with their proposals for three articles, the BOT team insisted that all three articles were a package and we could only continue to bargain on

Dear colleagues, Our twelfth bargaining session of this bargaining season was held on Wednesday, July 17. Here’s a brief update on where we are in the process. Synopsis: Here’s the weekly salary chart. You can see that we really aren’t very far apart. If we can agree about putting PTR into an MOA for this year and if we can bring

Dear FSU Colleagues: On Monday, July 1, the UFF team presented the BOT team with our latest salary proposal, and after a caucus, the BOT team proposed a salary counter proposal along with Article 10 (Performance Evaluations), which once again includes PTR, and a Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) that counters our Article 20 (Grievances and

Dear FSU Colleagues: On June 27, the two teams met and made some positive progress, tentatively agreeing to one article and getting very close to agreeing to another. We also passed salary proposals back and forth across the table. To begin, the UFF team suggested moving Post-Tenure Review (PTR) out of Article 10 (Performance Evaluations)

Dear colleagues, Our tenth bargaining session of this bargaining season was held on Friday, June 21. Here’s an update on where we are in the process. Synopsis: If you want to help us advocate for better and fairer salaries, for the protection of tenure, and for faculty governance, there’s no better way to do so

Dear colleagues, Today we will be bargaining from 2-5pm at the Training Center across from the stadium. If you are a member, please join us in person if you can. If you can’t join in person, you may want to attend on Zoom via this link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88528923845?pwd=YnRNajhhb01HMVBlQTJDRmRqQlVqdz09#success Join our Cloud HD Video MeetingZoom is the leader in modern

Dear colleagues, Our eighth bargaining session of this bargaining season was held on Tuesday, June 4. Here’s an update on where we are in the process. The short of it is that we tentatively agreed to language in Article 21 (Other Faculty Rights), went back and forth four times with salary proposals, and we received a new proposal from the BOT on Article