The UFF and FSU Administration have tentatively agreed upon several changes to the CBA, to be ratified by vote of the faculty on May 29th and 30th. Locations and times will be announced in a separate post. The documents showing relevant changes are below, and a summary is available here. Current CBA showing changes Article […]

UFF-FSU and Board of Trustees Bargaining Update April 8, 2018 The UFF-FSU faculty team and the BOT exchanged proposals with few questions and little discussion of issues.  The UFF has rejected most of the changes to appointments proposed by the BOT.  The BOT proposals for changing definitions of a “break in service” and “continuous service”

The BOT and the UFF-FSU teams met the last two Wednesdays to begin bargaining over the Salaries article and to continue discussing the other four open articles. Regarding salaries, the BOT team proposed the following amounts: Departmental Merit:                 0.25% Deans’ Merit:               

The BOT and the UFF teams met last Wednesday for the first bargaining session of the year. After agreeing to ground rules, the teams laid out their proposals.  Each team is allowed to reopen two in addition to Article 23 Salaries. The UFF-FSU reopened Article 17 Leaves and Article 24 Benefits.  We proposed that instead

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The BOT and UFF bargaining teams met on July 26 to continue negotiations on the Salaries article. As noted in the last Update, the previous week the teams had signed a Memorandum of Agreement insuring that regardless of what happens in the remainder of bargaining, Promotion raises will go into effect with the first paycheck

The administration and UFF bargaining teams met on July 17 to resume negotiating the Salaries article (Article 23). While we continue to see progress toward agreement, that progress is extremely slow. We were gratified that approximately 45 of our colleagues across the university elected to join us. Filling the room sent a clear message that

The BOT and UFF bargaining teams met on July 5 after a BOT-imposed three-week break in negotiations. The discussion was solely about the Salaries article. As has been the case for several weeks, the unresolved categories are Performance Increases, Departmental Merit Increases, Deans’ Merit Increases, Market Equity Increases, Administrative Discretionary Increases, and the UFF’s proposed

The UFF-FSU bargaining team has considered the PowerPoint presentation from June 14’s bargaining session and has concluded that it does not justify the Administration’s claim that faculty salaries need little upward adjusting. The presentation centered on two sets of data, one seeking to show that FSU’s 2017-2018 increase funds are restricted to categories that largely