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2013 Faculty Poll: Don't You Forget About Me!

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2013 Faculty Poll: Don't You Forget About Me!

Hundreds of faculty members responded to the 2013 UFF-FSU Faculty Poll. Preliminary tabulations are available at: https://uff-fsu.org/art/FacPoll2013ResultsPostNC.pdf An expanded edition of the of the report that includes faculty comments that help to clarify and elaborate upon the quantitative results can be found at: https://uff-fsu.org/art/FacPoll2013ResultsPostComments.pdf More detailed results by college/unit and department/unit will be forthcoming for […]

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Report to Faculty Senate, April 24th, 2013

By Professor Jack Fiorito, Senator and UFF-FSU Vice President Consultation, Ballots, and Bargaining Much has happened since our last meeting. Since the March Faculty Senate meeting we held a consultation with President Barron and Provost Stokes and other top administrators. The discussion was wide-ranging and cordial. That same day we counted ballots in the UFF-FSU

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UFF-FSU Administration, Uncategorized

Academic Freedom Resolution

The UFF-FSU Executive Council at its April 8th meeting passed the following resolution:   The UFF-FSU Executive Council stands with our sister chapter, UFF-FAU, and FAU instructor Dr. Deandre Poole in their defense of academic freedom. Academic freedom is at the heart of academic excellence, the advancement of knowledge, the pursuit of truth and tolerance,

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Report to Faculty Senate, March 20th

Collective Bargaining Our current collective bargaining agreement (CBA) expires on June 30th … all of it!  In other words, we will be doing what’s called “full book” bargaining.  We will begin negotiations in May and preparations for bargaining are already underway.  Between now and then both sides have to decide which issues they want to

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Bargaining News, Faculty Senate, Faculty Senate Reports, Florida Legislation, Uncategorized

Report to Faculty Senate, Feb. 20th

Our annual faculty poll’s question on parking was removed last spring over my objection.  In view of the earlier presentation and discussion and prospects for more parking problems, I plan to argue strongly for putting it back this spring. We are NOT bargaining, for a change.  You will recall that we concluded bargaining in October. 

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Florida Legislation, Political Action, Uncategorized

Senator Montford on Higher Education Issues

The UFF-FSU Chapter will be pleased to feature Senator Bill Montford as our special guest for a luncheon on Tuesday, February 26th at 12:30 in the Oglesby Union’s Florida Room.  Senator Montford will discuss issues facing higher education in the upcoming legislative session.  A postable flyer can be found at: https://uff-fsu.org/art/MontfordFeb26.pdf All FSU faculty members

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

Florida Supreme Court Retirement Ruling

Thursday’s Florida Supreme Court ruling did more than dash the hopes of more than 620,000 public workers in the Florida Retirement System who wanted to see 3 percent of their pay returned.  It also opened the doors for lawmakers to make more changes that help the state’s bottom line but cost the school teachers, law-enforcement

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Bargaining News, Uncategorized

CBA Implementation Updates (Jan. 10)

Salaries (the new Salary article’s Tentative Agreement [TA] can be found at https://uff-fsu.org/art/Art23TA.pdf): 1. Promotion raises, now at 12% and 15%, with back-pay to early August, were implemented in December (See Sec. 23.3(c) of the Salary TA). 2. Merit increases averaging 1% will begin to appear in paychecks on January 25th.  (See Sec. 23.5(b) [second

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Bargaining News, Florida Legislation, Uncategorized

Happy New Year! (Updates, Revised)

Some brief updates that may be of interest: 1.  Implementation of ratified changes to our UFF-FSU Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) is proceeding.  At least some promotion raises, now at 12% and 15%, with back-pay to early August, were implemented in December, and at least some merit raises are slated for implementation by January 25th.  Implementation

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Bargaining News, Non-Tenure-Track Faculty, Uncategorized

Bargaining Update and Ratification Voting

UFF faculty and Administration/BOT teams concluded negotiations for fiscal 2012-13 in late Ocotober, including an agreement on Specialized (NTT) Faculty Reclassifications. Ratification voting for faculty is tentatively scheduled for December 4-5th. Revisions to the current contract are fairly extensive, and we encourage faculty members to begin their review of the tentatively agreed changes as soon as

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