Category Archives: Campaigns & Contracts

Morning Sun: CMU faculty walk picket line in contract talks

Central Michigan University faculty are continuing to picket on campus grounds in an effort to negotiate a better contract.

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Kalamazoo Gazette: WMU professors: Mixed feelings over contract

KALAMAZOO — When professor Allen Webb arrived Thursday at the Western Michigan University faculty union meeting, he detected “disappointed resignation” among his hundreds of colleagues.

But he also felt relief that a strike isn’t looming.

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Kalamazoo Gazette: Western Michigan University professors press contract talks

KALAMAZOO — Disappointed by the lack of progress in contract talks, Western Michigan University professors voted Friday to allow its union negotiating team to take whatever “job actions” it deems necessary to pressure the administration.

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Burlington Free Press: UVM faculty contract reached

The faculty union at the University of Vermont has reached a tentative agreement with the administration on a new three-year contract for full-time employees.
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Details of the pact were not released pending ratification, according to a news release issued by United Academics. A vote by the members of United Academics’ full-time unit, numbering about 650, will take place in the next several weeks.

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Inside Higher Ed: CUNY faculty approve contract

Faculty members at the City University of New York overwhelmingly approved a new contract, the professors’ union announced Wednesday. The vote was 93 percent to 7 percent. Some adjunct faculty members pushed to reject the contract, which they said didn’t do enough for them in terms of either wages or job security. But many faculty members — including some who were critical of the pact — said that the deterioration of New York State’s budget picture would have made it dangerous to open negotiations again. Details about the contract may be found on the Web site of the Professional Staff Congress, which is affiliated with the American Federation of Teachers.

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Union-Tribune: College district, faculty union settle salary dispute

A lengthy labor dispute ended last week at Grossmont and Cuyamaca colleges after the faculty union and the district reached a salary agreement.

Negotiations had stalled for more than a year.

In March, faculty members stopped volunteering for campus activities, including advising student clubs and serving on certain committees. The Grossmont-Cuyamaca Community College District responded by filing an unfair-labor-practice complaint with the state, which hasn’t been resolved.

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WFMZ.com: RACC To Start Classes Without New Contract

Classes at Reading Area Community College will start on schedule Monday, although the faculty union doesn’t have a new contract. Officials for the union say they rejected an offer today. Sticking points between the school and the union are salary and health care.

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Sudbury Star: Huntington, faculty reach deal

Huntington University and its 20 full-and part-time faculty have hammered out a three-year tentative contract.

The 20 faculty members are part of the Laurentian University Faculty Association. Details of the agreement are not being released, but it is known is that the deal would be retroactive to last month.

Information is not available concerning when a union ratification vote will be held.

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Poughkeepsie Journal: Catholic faculty without contract

The Lay Faculty Association, a union representing 500 teachers at 10 high schools between Poughkeepsie and Staten Island, including Our Lady of Lourdes High School, will ignore a contract deadline set for today, despite losing proposed raises and benefits.

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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: CCAC, union agree on labor contract

Faculty get raises; new presidents appointed at 3 sites

Community College of Allegheny County yesterday ratified a new three-year labor contract with the union representing about 350 faculty, librarians, counselors and educational technicians.

The pact with the American Federation of Teachers Local 2067 runs from Aug. 24 through Aug. 23, 2011. It was approved unanimously by the college’s board of trustees.

It provides for salary increases based on rank and tenure ranging from 3 to 4 percent the first year and 4 to 5 percent in years two and three of the agreement. The average yearly base salary across the bargaining unit will rise from $59,400 to $67,500 over the contract life, said AFT President John Dziak.

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Inside Higher Ed: CUNY union opens up debate on contract

The Professional Staff Congress, the faculty union at the City University of New York, is creating a forum in which some criticisms of a proposed contract will be made widely available. The union has been questioned by critics of the contract, especially adjuncts, about its reluctance to let them send e-mail messages to the membership (even with opposing sides) offering reasons to reject the contract. Barbara Bowen, president of the union, has now announced that it will create a special Web page and will let members of the Delegate Assembly (who backed the contract, 92-13) post brief explanations of why they voted the way they did. While the Web page is now likely to have more exhortations to accept the contract than to reject it, the union rank and file will have direct access to arguments on both sides of the issue.

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Youngstown Vindicator: Union to vote on YSU contract

YOUNGSTOWN — Members of the nonfaculty Association of Classified Employees union at Youngstown State University will vote Monday on the terms of a new three-year contract.

The union, representing about 400 administrative assistants, secretaries, computer center employees, maintenance workers and others, will meet at 5:30 p.m. in the Chestnut Room of Kilcawley Center.

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The Daily Gleaner: STU professors to teach fewer classes, earn more – report

The long-awaited arbitrator’s report on the collective bargaining agreement for full- and part-time faculty at St. Thomas University was released late Friday.

Full-time faculty members had their workload decreased from six courses per year to five and will receive a three per cent salary increase annually for the duration of the three-year contract, retroactive to July 2007.

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Columbus Business First: Columbus State, faculty sign 3-year contract

Columbus State Community College and the union representing its 269 full-time faculty have agreed to a three-year contract that includes a 3.75 percent pay raise next year.

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FACE: Syracuse Adjuncts Hit Their Stride

Health and leave benefits, professional development support, seniority, binding arbitration, a boost in pay: these are the high notes of the first contract part-time/adjunct faculty at Syracuse University ratified by a six-to-one margin in a vote counted June 23.

Adjuncts United (AU) represents more than 500 part-time faculty and some graduate students and is affiliated with New York State United Teachers (NYSUT) and nationally with the AFT and the NEA. AU has been working towards this contract with the private university since it voted for representation in December 2005. Now, 81 bargaining sessions later–eight of them with a federal mediator at hand–AU has a contract that is a model for private universities in the state and the nation. “It has been a long and arduous process, but well worth the effort,” says Jeanette Jeneault, AU president. “As a first contract both sides should be commended on the many best practices that will be memorialized here.”

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Rocky Mountain News:
An unprecedented offer for teachers

Denver Public Schools is eager to offer the largest annual pay increase in memory to its classroom teachers – one of its proposals would hike base salaries an average of 7.7 percent.

There’s more. With incentives available through the ProComp performance-pay system, average salaries, the district calculates, would rise by a jaw-dropping 18 percent.

Given the slumping economy, stagnating wages in the private sector and the fact that salaries at other local school districts may not keep pace with inflation, you’d think the Denver Classroom Teachers Association would be all over the offer. Instead, the union has flatly rejected it.

The district’s three-year-old ProComp program is the sticking point. All new hires are covered by ProComp, which is building up a sizable reserve from a tax approved by voters. The district wants to use that revenue to sweeten its incentive-based pay, such as for those who teach difficult subjects in hard-to-staff schools. It also wants to direct more money to teachers who are early in their careers.

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The Chronicle News Blog: Israeli Universities Settle Strike by Junior Lecturers

Jerusalem — Junior lecturers in Israel called off a series of work stoppages today after they reached agreement on salaries and working conditions with university heads.

The breakthrough removed the threat of another crippling strike at Israeli colleges, where studies have been disrupted twice in the past year because of labor actions by students and by senior professors.

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Wilmington News Journal: SSCC works to end dispute

Southern State Community College maintains a tentative agreement signed Dec. 17 between the college and the faculty will stand, despite assertions by the faculty union further clarifications to the agreement are needed.

According to Southern State Education Association President Ken Holliday, a meeting was held Friday morning by the executive committee of the faculty. However, no immediate decisions came from the meeting.

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