After years of negotiations U of Florida and faculty union reach contract agreement

by E Wayne Ross on January 13, 2010

Gainesville Sun: UF and faculty union reach contract agreement

The University of Florida’s faculty union has reached agreement on a new contract, after years of negotiations and recent weeks in which a last-ditch deal threatened to fall apart.

United Faculty of Florida and administration negotiators reached agreement late Monday. Union members and UF’s Board of Trustees must still approve the three-year contract, but union chapter president John Biro said it was “almost certain” that would happen