Category Archives: Campaigns & Contracts

Akron Beacon Journal: KSU faculty rejects contract extension

Deal providing domestic partner benefits, raise of 3 percent voted down 63 percent to 37 percent

The Kent State University faculty union has voted down a one-year contract extension that would have included domestic partner benefits.

The union voted 63 percent to 37 percent against the proposal, which also would have included a 3 percent raise and maintenance of health-care costs and benefits at current levels.

Lee Fox, president of the KSU chapter of the American Association of University Professors, said many faculty wanted a higher salary increase. She declined to say how much.

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Contract extension for Trent U faculty ratified

Trent University’s board of governors has ratified an extension to the existing 2005-08 collective agreement with the Trent University Faculty Association (TUFA).
The terms of that agreement are now in effect until June 30, 2009.
TUFA members voted in favour of the extension back on march 31, 2008.
Both the university and TUFA, which has 340 members, have agreed that negotiations for a new collective agreement will begin no later than March 1, 2009.

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NY1: Catholic School Teachers Reject Latest Contract Offer

Just days after returning to work, following a union-wide strike, a group of Catholic school teachers in the city is threatening to walk out again.

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Inside Higher Ed: Union Dispute at Wayne State

The union of part-time faculty members at Wayne State University is engaged in negotiations over a contract, and union officials charge that on Thursday they were threatened with arrest for passing out leaflets. The charges, by the unit of the American Federation of Teachers, are detailed here. Wayne State officials did not respond to e-mail messages seeking comment.

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Anchorage Daily News: University signs salary contracts with three employee unions

A union representing 940 university faculty, counselors, librarians, Cooperative Extension agents and postdoctoral fellows primarily employed at the main campus will receive an annual salary increase of 3.3 percent over three years. But the university’s contribution to net health care will be reduced.

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Union Leader: UNH faculty, staff take buyout deals

DURHAM – More than 60 University of New Hampshire staff members and about a dozen of the faculty are slated to take a buyout and walk away from their jobs.

UNH will buy out 61 staff members for about $2.96 million in money and benefits and 14 faculty members for about $1.7 million, according to numbers the university provided.

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Exchange Morning Post: Tentative deal reached between Wilfrid Laurier University and union representing part-time faculty

WATERLOO, ON – Wilfrid Laurier University and the Wilfrid Laurier University Faculty Association, the union representing the striking Contract Academic Staff members, have reached a tentative agreement, which now requires ratification by both parties.

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WCAX-TV: UNH reaches tentative contract with faculty

DURHAM, N.H. (AP) – The University of New Hampshire and its faculty union have tentatively agreed on a contract, ending nearly two years of negotiations.

Few details will be released before both sides vote, but the proposal calls for annual, across-the-board salary increases totaling 14.5% over the 3-year contract and new salary minimums for each faculty rank. The proposal covers from July 2006 to July 2009.

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Youngstown Vindicator: YSU faculty approves contract

Details are not being released until trustees vote.

YOUNGSTOWN — The faculty members at Youngstown State University have approved a new labor contract.

But neither the faculty union nor the university administration will release any details on it until after the university board of trustees have voted on it.

Nancy White, a psychology professor and president of the 380-member YSU chapter of the Ohio Education Association, the union, said the contract was approved in voting Wednesday and Thursday

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AFP: Zimbabwe teachers end strike after 754 percent pay hike

Mar 14, 2008

HARARE (AFP) — Thousands of teachers in Zimbabwe’s state schools have ended a three-week strike after being awarded a 754 percent salary increase by the government, their union said on Friday.

“We urge teachers to return to work,” said Raymond Majongwe, secretary general of the Progressive Teachers Union of Zimbabwe, calling the salary increase a victory for teachers and the nation.

Majongwe said the government agreed to hike the monthly teachers’ salary to 3.4 billion Zimbabwe dollars (115,300 US dollars at the official rate, but just 115 US dollars at the widely-used black market rate), up from 369 million Zimbabwe dollars.

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Vindicator: YSU, faculty reach contract

Contract talks three years ago broke down, resulting in a strike by the faculty.

YOUNGSTOWN — Negotiations resulting in a new contract for Youngstown State University’s 380 faculty members were apparently far more amicable than bargaining that led to a faculty strike three years ago.

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Star Tribune: State university faculty and system reach tentative labor agreement

The Inter Faculty Organization, the union representing about 3,300 faculty members at Minnesota’s seven state universities, has reached a tentative labor agreement with the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities system.

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Star Tribune: MnSCU faculty approve labor agreement

Faculty members at seven state universities voted Thursday to approve a two-year labor agreement with the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities system that provides pay raises that will bring them closer to their peers at other state university systems.

The pact approved 1,121 to 137 calls for a 2 percent across-the-board hike in each year of the contract.

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Santa Maria Times: AHC, faculty union at impasse

Negotiations between Allan Hancock College and the union representing its full-time faculty are at a standstill for the first time in the college’s history, union leaders said Wednesday.

At issue is the proposed 2007-2008 compensation package, which the Faculty Association of Allan Hancock College said provides only a standard cost of living adjustment (COLA), with no plan for allowing local faculty salaries to catch up with those of their peers across the state.

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Guelph Tribune: U of G Contract Talks Hit Impasse

Bargaining between the University of Guelph and its faculty association has reached an impasse, and a media blackout has been declared.

The faculty, librarians and veterinarians voted to unionize in 2006, and negotiations towards a first collective agreement have been going on since November 2006.

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Seacoastonline.com: UNH faculty: No contract, no summer school
Union says one chance left to settle labor differences

DURHAM — If a contract agreement is not reached between the American Association of University Professors and the administration of the University of New Hampshire, summer school classes may feel the impact.

Professor Dale Barkey, president of the AAUP, said there is a mediation session set for Feb. 25. The two sides reached their second impasse last month and talks were called off by the administration to move back into mediation.

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