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Bargaining News, Florida Legislation, Non-Tenure-Track Faculty, Political Action, Uncategorized

Report on University Welfare for Faculty Senate, December 7th, 2011

December 10, 2011 / Bargaining News, Florida Legislation, Non-Tenure-Track Faculty, Political Action, Uncategorized

Collective Bargaining We’ve had just one bargaining session since the last Senate meeting. In contrast to most of our weekly sessions since May, which have focused on the Administration/BOT’s desire to revise performance evaluation procedures, we addressed academic freedom (Article 5), domestic partner benefits, and revisions to the Salary Plan for Professors (Article 25). At […]

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Florida Legislation, Political Action, Uncategorized

Special Message from Tom Auxter

November 25, 2011 / Florida Legislation, Political Action, Uncategorized

The Fate of Higher Education Hangs in the Balance: Florida Legislature 2012 The next legislative session starting in January could decide once and for all whether Florida will have a viable system of higher education in the future. The leadership, with the support of the Governor, is ready to introduce changes so radical that it

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Bargaining News, Florida Legislation, Political Action, Uncategorized

November 16th Update to Faculty Senate

November 20, 2011 / Bargaining News, Florida Legislation, Political Action, Uncategorized

Report on University Welfare for Faculty Senate, November 16th, 2011 By Professor Jack Fiorito, UFF-FSU President I heard that my report was missed last month! I will try to make it up to you in a brief update on UFF and Faculty Welfare since my previous report in September. Consultation UFF representatives met with President

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Florida Legislation, Newspaper/Web Reprints, Political Action, Uncategorized

Florida Shortchanges Its Universities

October 30, 2011 / Florida Legislation, Newspaper/Web Reprints, Political Action, Uncategorized

From the St. Petersburg Times Tampabay.com October 28, 2011 By Times Wire At least credit former U.S. Sen. George LeMieux for being half-right: Tuition at Florida’s public universities is too low. But so is the state’s direct support. The hard fact that no one in Tallahassee’s majority party seems willing to acknowledge is that the

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Affiliate Union Reports/Releases, Florida Legislation, Newspaper/Web Reprints, Political Action, Uncategorized

FEA Suit on Mandatory Retirement Contribution (Pay Cut)

October 30, 2011 / Affiliate Union Reports/Releases, Florida Legislation, Newspaper/Web Reprints, Political Action, Uncategorized

Below you will see an FEA report, a news media report, and links to other news reports on the legal battle over cuts to our pay that the legislature and governor approved this past spring. This is one of the reasons that the UFF is affiliated with the Florida Education Association (FEA) and other organizations.

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Political Action, Uncategorized

UFF-FSU Supports "Occupy Tallahassee"

October 14, 2011 / Political Action, Uncategorized

On October 14, the UFF-FSU Executive Council adopted the following resolution: “UFF-FSU stands in solidarity with Occupy Tallahassee and the Occupy Wall Street movement. As champions of worker rights, equality, and fairness, we support students, faculty and other groups and individuals demonstrating for economic and political justice. The Occupy Wall Street movement highlights economic inequality

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Florida Legislation, FSU Reports, Newspaper/Web Reprints, Outside Florida, Political Action, Uncategorized

Texas, Don't Mess With Florida

September 12, 2011 / Florida Legislation, FSU Reports, Newspaper/Web Reprints, Outside Florida, Political Action, Uncategorized

UFF-FSU is examining several proposals for major reform of higher education in Florida. For now, we refer you to the following resource pages: The Seven Breakthrough Solutions proposed for higher education in Texas are inspiring Governor Scott to consider similar reforms in Florida. For a humorous analysis of the Texas proposal, see these two 8-minute

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Florida Legislation, Newspaper/Web Reprints, Political Action, Tenure, Uncategorized

They're back…Legislature to consider proposals to eliminate/change tenure

September 12, 2011 / Florida Legislation, Newspaper/Web Reprints, Political Action, Tenure, Uncategorized

As expected, some of the bad ideas that failed to become Florida law last session are circulating again in pre-session circles. Among these are proposals to eliminate or change tenure in state-assisted higher education.

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