Dear FSU Colleagues: The Board of Trustees (BOT) and UFF faculty (UFF) bargaining teams met Wednesday (11/8) to continue their negotiations on Post-Tenure Review (PTR).  The session started with a new proposal from UFF designed to make the PTR more faculty friendly, including the following: After a caucus, the BOT team offered a counter-proposal including […]

Dear FSU Colleagues, The UFF and BOT teams met Wednesday, October 25th, to discuss the latest BOT counter-offer on the memorandum of agreement (MOA) about the Post-Tenure Review (PTR) process. The UFF-FSU team started the meeting by clarifying that both teams agree on the importance of tenure for academic freedom and for the reputation of

The UFF and BOT teams met Wednesday to discuss the BOT’s Post-Tenure Review (PTR) process proposal.  Progress was made on some issues, but significant differences remain on others.  Here is a brief summary of some key issues … progress and problems: Progress Problems The BOT accepted some UFF language designed to link PTR ratings to

The UFF and BOT teams met Wednesday to discuss UFF’s proposed changes to the BOT team’s Post-Tenure Review (PTR) process. Our major concerns with the policy include: ·         The performance rating scale—we added language to link the PTR performance rating scale to the FSU annual evaluation ratings. ·         The possibility that a faculty member can

Dear Colleagues, Last Wednesday, we began negotiations with the FSU administration on enacting their draft Post-Tenure Review Policy. At that session, they handed us a revised document that made several positive changes from the first-draft version, affording greater due process rights to faculty.  This coming Wednesday (tomorrow) from 2:00–5:00 at the FSU Training Center (across from the

Dear FSU Colleagues, I am pleased to announce that faculty voted overwhelmingly, 230-4, for the proposed modifications to our Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA).  Thank you to the many of you who were able to vote in the past few days.  Implementation of the new salary terms is expected to follow this schedule: We need you

The next step in the bargaining process is the ratification of the negotiated contract by the faculty. This will be a majority vote to accept the negotiated settlement or reject it and send the bargaining teams back to the table for more negotiations.  The ratification vote will take place June 13 and 14th with times

Dear FSU Colleagues, We are pleased to announce that the UFF and BOT teams settled Article 23, Salaries. While the teams could not agree to the transparency language for Deans’ Merit or a minimum on the Performance increases, both of which the UFF team made arguments for once again, we did agree to the largest salary

FSU Colleagues, On Wednesday afternoon the UFF-FSU and BOT bargaining teams met for 3 hours.  The session came very close to a final agreement but ended up on a somewhat tense and acrimonious note. To make a good-faith move to meet the BOT, the UFF-FSU started out proposing a Performance Increase that is somewhat less

Dear FSU Colleagues, The bargaining teams met for the second time on Monday to discuss the Salaries article.  The BOT team began with a counteroffer to the UFF-FSU offer from last Wednesday.  This is where we left off last week and picked up on Monday:   UFF #3 (from May 3) BOT #3 (presented May