Los Angeles Times: L.A. teachers approve contract as layoffs loom
Teachers have accepted a new contract that includes no pay raise for last year, this year or next year, but will allow them to take formal contract grievances public.
The leaders of United Teachers Los Angeles had insisted to members that they could do no better on salary issues during tough economic times, and the membership responded, even though the union’s governing House of Representatives strongly opposed the deal.
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Buffalo News: Mediation pursued in NCCC labor feud
NCCC President James Klyczek said he is trying to address increasing health care and pension costs.Charles Lewis/Buffalo News
Union negotiator Joseph F. Colosi said administrators have asked for too much.
SANBORN — Working without a labor contract for almost three years will go a long way to strain a relationship.
But the continuing feud between the faculty union and the administration at Niagara County Community College doesn’t mean that either side has sat still during the process.
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Latin American Herald-Tribune: Chilean Teachers, Government Strike Tentative Deal
SANTIAGO – Represents of the 80,000 Chilean teachers who have been on strike for three weeks reached an accord with authorities Friday on a mechanism for the educators to receive two years’ worth of promised bonuses, but a firm deal still depends on approval by the union rank and file.
Union members are due to meet Saturday in regional assemblies to consider the proposal.
The strike is affecting nearly 1 million students nationwide.
The educators, who are owed around $2,000 each, had demanded an immediate payment of $877 with the balance to come by October at the latest, a proposal accepted by municipalities, which administer Chile’s public schools, but not by the Education Ministry.
Municipal governments acknowledge that they owe teachers as much as $142 million in bonuses for 2007 and 2008. EFE
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Concordia University and the Concordia University Faculty Association are pleased to announce that they have signed a new collective agreement.
The collective agreement will cover the period from June 1, 2007 through May 31, 2012.
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Burlington Free Press: UVM part-time faculty contract negotiations at impasse
Seemingly evergreen issues of job security, salary and health insurance have led to an impasse in contract negotiations between the University of Vermont’s part-time faculty and administration.
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The university and United Academics – UVM’s faculty union – agreed Thursday to declare an impasse after five months of failed negotiation, according to David Shiman, president of UVM’s faculty union.
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SouthCoastToday.com: Angry UMD union rejects contract
DARTMOUTH — Under the pall of a proposed restructuring that would eliminate 64 full-time union positions, UMass Dartmouth’s largest bargaining unit has rejected a proposed three-year contract agreement.
By a vote of 76 in favor, 161 opposed, with two abstentions, the 600-member Faculty Federation’s Faculty, Librarians and Professional Technicians unit rejected the agreement that had been hammered out earlier this month.
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Detroit Free Press: DPS officials meet with teachers’ union leaders
Detroit Public Schools officials met with city, state and national teachers’ union leaders in Washington, D.C. today, just weeks before contract negotiations are expected to begin in Detroit.
DPS Emergency Financial Manager Robert Bobb and his top academic appointee, Chief Academic and Accountability Auditor Barbara Byrd-Bennett, met with Detroit Federation of Teachers President Keith Johnson and American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten at AFT headquarters, according to district officials.
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CAUT Bulletin: Academic Staff at Carleton Ratify One-Year Contract
Professors, professional librarians and instructors at Carleton University have voted to accept a tentative agreement reached with the employer April 17.
The deal was reached before the collective agreement expired and is effective May 1, 2009 to April 30, 2010.
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NewsWest9.com: Highlands regents approve contract with faculty
LAS VEGAS, N.M. (AP) – New Mexico Highlands University regents have unanimously approved a contract that gives raises to the faculty.
The regents voted in favor of the contract last week, a day after the professors’ union voted for it.
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Crain’s Cleveland Business: Kent State University reaches three-year contract with key union
Kent State University and the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Local 153 have agreed on a new, three-year contract.
Under the contract, 376 Kent State employees will receive 3% raises in each of the contract’s three years, which will cost the university about $900,000 over the life of the contract. The salary increases are retroactive to Oct. 1, 2008.
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Daily Freeman: UCCC faculty union gets 2-year contract
KINGSTON — The Ulster County Legislature has approved a two-year contract with the Ulster County Community College Faculty Association that gives full-time faculty members 3.5 percent salary increases in each of the pact’s two years.
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Zanesville Times Recorder: OU faculty close to unionizing
ZANESVILLE -The faculty of Ohio University is one step closer to becoming a union after a meeting of the Faculty Senate.
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At an October meeting, senate members approved a resolution requesting shared governance between the administration and the faculty.
The resolution cites 21 examples the faculty feels the administration and board of trustees have “steadfastly resisted the implementation of any real shared governance and jeopardized the respect and trust of the faculty.”
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FACE: Finally, An Agreement is Reached at Pace University!
Even before Barack Obama and John McCain started running for president, the adjunct faculty at PACE University got together and formed a union, the Union of Adjunct Faculty at Pace (UAFP). Unfortunately, as is often the case in the private sector, the administration didn’t necessarily want to honor that overwhelming decision by its employees and began a long campaign of defer and delay designed to wear down the members of UAFP.
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WNEM: CMU, Faculty Reach Contract Agreement
Faculty Currently Working Under Extended Contract
MOUNT PLEASANT, Mich. — Weeks ago, the faculty at Central Michigan University hit the picket lines.
But Friday, CMU and the Faculty Association announced that a tentative agreement was reached on a new contract.
Spokesman Steve Smith said both sides have agreed not to discuss the details of the agreement.
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Business Courier of Cincinnati: Cincinnati State faculty rejects contract proposal
Faculty members at Cincinnati State Technical and Community College have voted down a contract proposal presented by a fact-finder, the college said Friday.
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The Philadelphia Inquirer: Temple offers faculty raise, but wants some tied to merit
Temple University has offered to its faculty raises equivalent to 17.3 percent over four years and has backed off a proposal to tie all of the raise to performance, officials said yesterday.
The administration, however, still wants a significant portion to be based on merit – more than in the current contract – although officials would not be specific.
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The Seattle Times: Seattle teachers to receive raises of 9-10%
Teachers will receive raises of 9-10 percent this year, the culmination of a five-year effort to make Seattle Public Schools competitive with surrounding school districts.
Seattle teachers will receive raises of 9-10 percent this year, the culmination of a five-year effort to make Seattle Public Schools competitive with surrounding school districts.
Five years ago, the school district and the local teachers union agreed to raise teacher pay enough so that, by this school year, Seattle would rank in the top five in terms of “supplemental pay” — the part of a teacher’s salary that the district funds above what the state provides.
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Burlington Free Press: UVM full-time faculty ratify contract
A new three-year contract providing annual pay raises of 5 percent has been ratified overwhelmingly by the full-time faculty bargaining unit at the University of Vermont.
The pact, effective retroactively to July 1 and running until July 2011, provides an increase in parental leave and a new family-care leave that one faculty negotiator, sociology professor Beth Mintz, called “by far and away the best policy in the country.” The parental leave provision gives up to 15 weeks, or one semester, of paid leave. The family-care leave allowance is six weeks paid.
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Kalamazoo Gazette: Western Michigan University professors approve new union contract
KALAMAZOO — By a wide margin, Western Michigan University faculty members ratified a new three-year contract with the university Friday.
The pact was approved by 82 percent of the faculty members who voted. However, only about 40 percent of those eligible to cast a ballot did so.
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Detroit’s Schools Are Going Bankrupt, Too
Wall Street Journal: Detroit’s Schools Are Going Bankrupt, Too
Now’s the time to cast off collective bargaining agreements and introduce school choice.
‘Am I optimistic that they can avoid it . . . ? I am not.” That’s what retired judge Ray Graves said this week when asked whether the Detroit public schools, which he is advising, would be forced into bankruptcy. Facing violence, a shrinking student body, and graduating just one out of every four students who enter the ninth grade on time, the city’s schools have been stumbling for years. Now they face a seemingly insurmountable deficit and are expected to file for bankruptcy protection at about the time that students should be settling down in a new school year.
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