Category Archives: Campaigns & Contracts

Daily Egyptian : Faculty union approves contract

Faculty Association Vice President Lenore Langsdorf said 94 percent of union members who voted approved the terms. Trustees could vote to accept or deny the …

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The Star Phoenix: U of S, faculty negotiations move forward

With a strike vote looming, it appears major progress has been made in the negotiations between the University of Saskatchewan Faculty Association (USFA) and the U of S bargaining team.

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Pittsburgh Tribune Review: Pay, parental leave key issues for faculty in Pa. system talks

Negotiators for the 14 state-owned universities and their faculty union will meet Friday to begin working on a new contract.

“We are going to do everything we can to reach a settlement by June 30,” said Kenn Marshall, a spokesman for the State System of Higher Education. “It’s our hope that we can do that.”

The four-year contract between the system, which governs state-owned universities such as Indiana and Slippery Rock, and the Association of Pennsylvania State College and University Faculties expires July 1. The union represents 5,500 teachers and 350 coaches.

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Billings Gazette: Tech faculty union ratifies contract

After more than a year of sometimes-difficult negotiations, members of a union representing most of Montana Tech’s professors have overwhelmingly ratified a collective bargaining agreement.

“This contract is a step in the right direction. … This is good for both management and the union,” Montana Tech Faculty Association President John Brower said of the 32-9 vote, which reflected 95 percent of the membership.

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The Round Up: NMSU employee union seeks contract signature by president

Students, faculty, staff and American Federation for State County and Municipal Employees union members joined together to demand worker contract negotiations.

In May of 2006, about 1,300 workers at NMSU joined the AFSCME, the largest union in the United States for workers in public service. These employees included custodians, groundskeepers and administrative assistants.

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London Free Press: UWO faculty ratifies contract

The University of Western Ontario’s board of governors and the school’s faculty association have ratified a four-year contract.

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The campaign to organize part-time Ontario college workers

Toronto (30 Jan. 2007) – Ontario colleges exploit over 17,000 part-time workers, both faculty and support staff, as a source of cheap labour. Part-timers are paid less than full-timers. They have no job security. They have few or no benefits. Sometimes they even have to work for free.

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The Star-Ledger: Rutgers, workers reach accord to keep union campaign civil

Rutgers University and the American Federation of Teachers announced a truce yesterday, ending a feud over a drive to unionize mid-level administrators.

The parties signed a neutrality agreement just weeks after Gov. Jon Corzine demanded Rutgers stop sending employees e-mails extolling the virtues of nonunion employment. A handful of state lawmakers also had threatened to cut state funding for the university if Rutgers President Richard McCormick didn’t cease “anti-union” activities.

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The London Free Press: : Tentative deal set for UWO, faculty

The University of Western Ontario and its faculty association have reached a deal on a tentative contract covering four years.

UWO: Western, faculty reach tentative agreement

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The Chronicle Herald: Faculty, SMU reach tentative deal

Saint Mary’s University faculty will likely head back to work after Christmas with a new contract.

Negotiators for the university and its 260 full-time professors reached a tentative agreement after talks last weekend.

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Tallahassee Democrat: FAMU, union, come to terms on contract

About 700 professors at Florida A&M University are about to get a raise, a bonus and their first contract in three years.

Negotiations between the faculty union and administration finally resulted in an agreement to give a 1- percent raise to faculty, retroactive to October, and a half-percent one-time bonus for signing the contract, Bill Tucker, chief negotiator for FAMU’s chapter of United Faculty of Florida, said on Wednesday.

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ABC7chicago.com: Peoria teachers union votes for agreement

The Peoria Federation of Teachers says its members approved a three-year agreement with District 150 tonight — averting any possible strike.

PFT President Scott Schifeling says around one-thousand of the union’s one-thousand-150 members attended a meeting to vote. The vote totals weren’t released.

The union had issued an intent-to-strike notice and teachers could have gone on strike as soon as Tuesday.

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Dayton Business Journal: Teachers union, schools reach tentative deal

Dayton Public Schools and its union reached another tentative agreement Friday. Union members voted down a previous tentative agreement in November, sending their negotiators back to the bargaining table with the district. The union represents about 1,500 workers, primarily teachers.

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The Chronicle News Blog: University Says It Will Cease Court Action to Invalidate Union Election

In an move that probably signals an end to two years of litigation, George Washington University announced late yesterday that it would not pursue further court action to invalidate a union election held in 2004. In that election, which was certified by the National Labor Relations Board, a slim majority of part-time professors at George Washington voted to a form a union. However, rather than recognize the election, the university filed appeals, first with the Labor Board and then with a federal court. The university lost its last appeal — to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit — just last week.

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The Boston Globe: Hundreds in Hub teachers union picket at school

More than 300 members of the Boston Teachers Union picketed yesterday outside West Roxbury High School to protest stalled contract negotiations and pressure teachers to boycott a daylong math workshop scheduled at the school.

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Inside Higher Ed: Unionizing Postdocs

They’ve been called “the invisible scientists,” and while that’s probably hyperbole, postdoctoral researchers are, on many university campuses, neither fish nor fowl — not yet professors, and yet no longer students, either. Their numbers have risen steadily in recent years with the increase in biomedical and other research spending, to an estimated 50,000 to 60,000, but the length of time that many postdocs spend in this in-between stage has been growing, too. Also on the rise, among some of them, is frustration at low pay, insufficient benefits and the reality that fewer of them may find a full-time faculty or research job at the end of their stint.

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