Dear FSU Colleagues, Our UFF bargaining team, which includes both specialized and general faculty members from across campus, works diligently to negotiate the rights outlined in the Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA), but if we do not have at least 60% membership density in early July, we will lose our right to bargain salaries, evaluations, tenure […]

Dear colleagues, Your UFF-FSU Bargaining Team and the representatives of FSU’s Board of Trustees (BOT) met on June 3 for the latest round of negotiations. The administration has not yet responded to our initial article drafts on Salary (Article 23), Leaves (Article 17), or Artificial Intelligence Use (Article 32), so the breadth of negotiations was

Dear colleagues, Last week’s bargaining session was held on Wednesday, May 27 and it was a doozy. This update would be overly long if I recounted all the drama, but I’ll offer a synopsis along with links to all the proposed contract language: Why does Article 3 matter? UFF activity is needed to defend the

Two farmers meet at a local pub and agree to barter: “I’ll give you wool from my sheep if you give me milk from your cows.” The dairy farmer delivers gallons of milk to the shepherd and, a month later, attempts to collect wool, only to be told, “oh, I never actually said that I

Dear FSU Colleagues, Welcome to the 2026 bargaining season! We will keep you updated as negotiations continue. Our first bargaining session was held May 13. This year is a reopener year, which means both UFF and the BOT team can open two articles in addition to salaries, which we negotiate every year. The UFF team

The UFF-FSU and Administration/Board of Trustees teams have concluded negotiations for the 2025-2028 Collective Bargaining Agreement. We reached Tentative Agreements on ten articles, five appendices, and two Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) documents. The 2022-2025 Collective Bargaining Agreement, as previously amended, can be found here. Below are summaries of the Tentatively Agreed upon language. You can click

Dear FSU Colleagues, We are happy to announce that we have settled all open articles for the 2025-2028 Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA)! The teams met on Wednesday to discuss Article 23, Salaries, and after several rounds of proposals and a clear signal that the BOT team was at the limit, we settled on the following:

Dear Colleagues, We have good news to report from last week (August 21)’s bargaining session. After many weeks of negotiations, the UFF and Board of Trustees teams have tentatively agreed to language on Articles 17 (Leaves) and 18 (Inventions and Works).  Article 18 (Inventions and Works) We finally arrived at a definition of “Scope of

Dear colleagues, At last week’s second bargaining session (on Thursday, August 14) we made even more progress on Article 17 (Leaves) and I think that we are very close to agreement. We also took a baby step in our salary negotiations—the administration has moved from 1.7% raises up to 1.8% raises (combined across-the-board and departmental merit). Here

Dear colleagues, I am happy to report some progress in bargaining this week: we made substantial improvements to both Article 17 (Leaves) and to Article 18 (Inventions and Works) during our August 11 bargaining session. I wish I had good news to report about Article 23 (Salaries), but the administration is still only offering a