Category Archives: Campaigns & Contracts

Post-Gazette: Pittsburgh teachers get first look at contract

Pittsburgh Public Schools teachers will vote this week on whether to accept a contract that would raise the top-scale pay for a master’s degree from $73,500 last school year to $79,800 over three years.

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The Chronicle News Blog: George Washington U. Drops Opposition to Adjunct Union and Strikes a Deal

After years of fighting to stay away from the bargaining table, George Washington University announced today that it had ratified its first collective-bargaining agreement with its part-time professors.

The deal was reached more than three years after adjuncts at the university voted to unionize, in an election certified by the National Labor Relations Board.

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Inside Higher Ed: GW part-timers gain contract after long fight

After an extended legal fight over a union election for part-time faculty members, George Washington University and the Service Employees International Union have reached agreement on a first contract. Under a summary released by the union, key provisions included are: more protection against discharge, more job security through rights granted after teaching specified numbers of courses, and significant increases in the minimum per-course payments. The minimum for a 3-4 credit course taught by a faculty member with a terminal degree will be $3,800.d

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Post-Gazette: City schools, union make progress in contract talks

Progress was made yesterday during a bargaining session between the Pittsburgh Public Schools and the teachers union, a school board member said.

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Desert Dispatch: College reaches contract with faculty union
Twelve percent raise over two years approved

Barstow Community College faculty members will receive a 12 percent pay increase over two years in a agreement announced Thursday at a meeting of the college’s board of trustees.

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Green Bay Press Gazette: Hansen, academics seek collective bargaining for UW faculty

Hailing the right to choose collective bargaining as universal and fundamental, state Sen. Dave Hansen today announced the introduction of a bill that would grant that option to University of Wisconsin System faculty and academic staff.

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The Chronicle Herald: Acadia, professors to vote on tentative deal

Acadia University and its faculty union have reached a tentative deal in their contract dispute that has already cost students three weeks of class time.

No details have been released yet pending ratification of the deal by Acadia’s board of governors and the 300 members of the Acadia University Faculty Association. The union will meet today to review the proposal and vote.

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The Chronicle: Many College Presidents Lack Written Employment Contracts

All college presidents technically hold employment contracts. But whether the terms of those contracts are spelled out clearly is a different story. One-third of public university chiefs do not have formal written agreements, The Chronicle found in a survey of 165 public universities where such documents are considered public information.

Some of the collected agreements (which are posted on The Chronicle’s Web site) are extensive legal documents. For example, Lester A. Lefton, president of Kent State University, holds a 12-page contract with an eight-page attachment detailing his deferred compensation.

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The Rider News:Union, administrators make last-minute deal

Representatives of the administration and the Rider faculty union reached a tentative four-year agreement after a last-ditch negotiating session on Monday afternoon.

Although union officials said that many of the changes to the contract were small and technical, among the more notable results were a lack of significant changes to academic governance and a salary increase of 4 percent for the first year.

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The Times: Rider faculty agree to contract

LAWRENCE — Rider University administrators and faculty reached a tentative contract settlement yesterday, averting a strike that could have begun as early as next week.

The agreement is still subject to the ratification of the board of trustees and union members, according to Jeff Halpern, a sociology professor at Rider who also is the head negotiator for the university’s chapter of the American Association of University Professors.

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KTVZ: EOU, Faculty agree on new contract
Eastern Oregon University and its faculty union have reached a tentative agreement on a new 2-year contract that would run through June of 2009.

It now must be ratified by the faculty union and University of Oregon system. The faculty will vote Wednesday.

Details are being withheld pending ratification.

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SooToday.com: University faculty gets new contract

Lake Superior State University’s board of trustees approved a three-year contract with the LSSU Faculty Association during the board’s regular meeting on campus October 12.

The three-year agreement was one of the first orders of business in President Rodney Lowman’s first meeting with the eight-member board, and in board member Barbara Cliff’s first meeting as chair.

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Business Courier: UC faculty union approves new contract

The University of Cincinnati’s faculty union has ratified a new three-year contract that would bring some 2,300 UC employees a 2 percent raise in January, followed by raises totaling 6.5 percent by 2010.

Members of the UC chapter of the American Association of University Professors voted 77 percent in favor of the deal, which is subject to approval by the UC board of trustees.

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Billings Gazette: Tech faculty OKs contract

The Montana Tech Faculty Association last week overwhelmingly approved a salary agreement with Tech for the 2007 and 2008 academic years. The pact allows for a 3.42 percent raise in 2007 and a 3 percent or higher raise in 2008, depending on the cost of faculty promotions.

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Inside Higher Ed: Pennsylvania Professors vote to accept contract

Professors at Pennsylvania’s 14 state-owned universities have voted to accept a four-year contract, their union announced Tuesday night. More than 77 percent of members of the Association of Pennsylvania State College and University Faculities participated in the contract vote, and of those voting, nearly 70 percent backed the contract. A tentative agreement on the contract came in July, as faculty members prepared to go out on strike.

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Inside Higher Ed: Just hours after a previous contract expired, the University of California and the United Auto Workers union that represents teaching assistants, tutors and other academic employees who are students reached a tentative contract agreement. A statement released by the university, and quoting its officials and the UAW, said that the contract would run for two years and contained “significant improvement in wages, child care, parental leave, workload protections and health care.” Details are expected after a ratification vote by 12,000 employees covered by the agreement.

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