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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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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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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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
Senator Montford on Higher Education Issues Read Post »
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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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
CBA Implementation Updates (Jan. 10) Read Post »
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
Happy New Year! (Updates, Revised) Read Post »
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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UFF faculty and Administration/BOT teams reached tentative agreement recently on salaries, promotion, and tenure for the 2012-13 contract year. A brief summary of changes follows. Details on the tentative agreements are available via links further below. The teams will resume negotiations Wednesday morning at 9am, with benefits and the specialized faculty (NTTF) reclassification project as
Bargaining Update: Recently the Administration/BOT and UFF faculty teams reached tentative agreement on new language for Article 10 on Performance Evaluation and on Winter Break. Key changes in Article 10 include a more detailed five-point performance rating scale sought by the Admin/BOT and a ban on forced distributions sought by the faculty team. Some of
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