Dear FSU Colleagues, On April 10, the UFF-FSU and FSU-BOT teams met and exchanged counter-offers on Article 21 (Other Faculty Rights) and Article 22 (Sabbatical and Professional Development Leave). We have appreciated your attendance at our bargaining sessions as well as your participation in our poll and responses to our bargaining updates. Such participation, we believe, gives us not […]

Dear FSU Colleagues, This is the first bargaining update for the year, and a lot happened during the first meeting, so this update may be a bit longer than usual. We thank all of you who have come out to support us during bargaining sessions, whether in person or on Zoom. Your presence puts pressure on the administration and helps our cause.

Dear Colleagues, We need to hear from you! As you know, we have been in the process of bargaining with the administration over post-tenure review. The administration is implementing a policy that will end tenure as we know it at FSU. Though President McCullough told us in his “State of the University” address on 29

The Board of Trustees (BOT) and UFF faculty (UFF) bargaining teams met Wednesday (12/6) to continue their negotiations on Post-Tenure Review (PTR).  Major differences still exist around some issues, including, most importantly: 1) the UFF believes that discipline should be implemented at the time of the offense and be done, so a faculty member should only be punished

The bargaining team regularly writes you with bargaining updates.  This email is different. Unless more faculty members join, our union could be decertified early in the new year. We have years of experience negotiating the Collective Bargaining Agreement, and we know what is in store for faculty if the union is decertified and the CBA is dead.  We know

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