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Chicago Community Colleges to Tie Some Faculty Members’ Pay to Performance

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Chicago Community Colleges to Tie Some Faculty Members’ Pay to Performance
The seven colleges of the City Colleges of Chicago system have joined a small but growing number of public colleges around the nation in linking at least some faculty pay to performance. Under the terms of a new contract with the union representing the Chicago community-college system’s part-time adult-education instructors, the instructors will no longer receive automatic 3-percent pay increases for staying in the system, but they can receive bonuses of up to about 8 percent tied to the performance of their students. Contracts linking faculty pay to performance are now also in place at Kent State University and the University of Akron, in Ohio. Texas A&M University has established a controversial program that gives professors cash bonuses based on student evaluations.

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University of Hawaii, union reach deal: Pay cuts now, paybacks later

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Honolulu Advertiser: University of Hawaii, union reach deal
Agreement calls for pay cut for UHPA members now, but paybacks later

A day after its members received their first paychecks reflecting a 6.7 percent pay cut, the University of Hawai’i Professional Assembly announced that a tentative contract agreement had been reached with the University of Hawai’i.

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Trent faculty reach new deal

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Peterborough Examiner: FACULTY REACH NEW DEAL

The Trent University board of governors ratified a three-year contract between the university and its faculty association yesterday.

Trent faculty salary increases will continue to be calculated on an annual basis using a formula to ensure parity with comparator universities across Ontario, the university states.

Other significant changes include an increase in employee and employer pension contributions, adjustments to the compensation formula and revisions to language governing faculty personnel decisions.

The Trent University Faculty Association represents more than 300 faculty and professional librarians at the university.

Examiner: Trent University Faculty Association and Trent University Agreement Ratified

Peterbourough – On Friday Trent University’s Board of Governors ratified the three year settlement reached between the University and the Faculty Association on October 23, 2009. The Association previously ratified the tentative settlement on November 9, 2009. The new three year agreement is retroactive to July 1, 2009.

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Chipola faculty reject contract

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Jackson County Floridian: Chipola faculty reject contract

The Chipola College faculty voted Wednesday to reject the 2008-2009 contract that the Chipola College District Board of Trustees passed at its July 21 meeting.
According to a news release from the union representing the faculty, Chipola’s faculty had not had the opportunity to vote on the contract. Voting to reject the contract means the faculty are “voicing their displeasure and are forcing the board and college administration to impose the contract on them,” the news release stated.

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UVM, union seek mediation

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Burlington Free Press: UVM, union seek mediation

Contract talks between the University of Vermont and its service workers union are deadlocked over pay and retirement benefits and headed for federal mediation.

That was the message of UE Local 267 Tuesday in a news conference in the atrium of the Davis Center. Union representatives said UVM management was offering 1 percent annual raises over three years, compared with 4 percent sought by the union, and that UVM was seeking the right to eliminate health benefits for retirees. The union also said UVM wants to we

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Rhode Island College adjunct faculty ratify 3-year agreement

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Providence Journal: Rhode Island College adjunct faculty ratify 3-year agreement

PROVIDENCE — The union that represents part-time faculty members at Rhode Island College has ratified an agreement with the state Board of Governors for Higher Education, the union announced Friday.

The pact with the Rhode Island College/American Federation of Teachers Adjunct Faculty Union is retroactive to Sept. 1 and represents the first contract reached by adjunct faculty members at public colleges and universities in Rhode Island, the union and the college said. Adjunct faculty members are part-timers.

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Chicago State board alters new president’s contract

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Chicago Tribune: Chicago State board alters new president’s contract
Move made to allow Wayne Watson to collect pension

Trustees at Chicago State University on Wednesday took steps to fix the incoming president’s contract, which violated state pension rules.

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Detroit Free Press: Teachers cling to their benefits because it’s ‘one of our perks’

Teachers in the Wayne-Westland school district went on strike last fall for the first time in 36 years. Health care coverage was a key issue.
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In the end, teachers kept MESSA, the health insurance affiliate of the Michigan Education Association (MEA), as their insurer. The district wanted teachers to join a self-insurance plan officials said would give equal coverage at less cost, a claim the MEA disputed.

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College president picks fight with union, critics

Posted on July 8, 2009 by | Comments Off on College president picks fight with union, critics

Inside Higher Ed: So Sue Me

Contracts be damned. Kenneth A. Yowell, president of Edison Community College, in Ohio, believes he need not follow a union contract in deciding whose jobs to eliminate. Now, amid protest from faculty who already disapprove of his leadership, he is picking a fight with the local union to try to prove that he is well within his rights.

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L.A. teachers approve contract as layoffs loom

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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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Chilean Teachers, Government Strike Tentative Deal

Posted on June 8, 2009 by | Comments Off on Chilean Teachers, Government Strike Tentative Deal

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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Quebec: Concordia University and Concordia University Faculty Association (CUFA) sign new collective agreement

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Concordia University and Concordia University Faculty Association (CUFA) sign new collective agreement

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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Massachusetts: Angry UMD union rejects contract

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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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Robert Morris U. Faculty Union Forgoes Much of a Raise to Free Up Scholarship Funds

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The Chronicle News Blog: Robert Morris U. Faculty Union Forgoes Much of a Raise to Free Up Scholarship Funds

The union representing the faculty at Robert Morris University has agreed to give up more than half the raise due its members next year to allow the private Pennsylvania college to spend more on student financial aid.

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Detroit: DPS officials meet with teachers’ union leaders

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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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Academic Staff at Carleton Ratify One-Year Contract

Posted on May 11, 2009 by | Comments Off on Academic Staff at Carleton Ratify One-Year Contract

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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Jackson Community College faculty union planning to picket board meeting

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The Jackson Citizen: Jackson Community College faculty union planning to picket board meeting

Jackson Community College’s faculty union plans to picket Monday’s Board of Trustees meeting to bring attention to its lack of a new contract and concerns about the number of full-time faculty on campus.

The board said Friday in a statement it was surprised by the JCC Faculty Association’s plans to picket and responded to what the union calls “major issues” dividing the two sides.

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New Mexico Highlands University regents have unanimously approved a contract that gives raises to the faculty

Posted on May 11, 2009 by | Comments Off on New Mexico Highlands University regents have unanimously approved a contract that gives raises to the faculty

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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Yale and UNITE HERE Agree on Three-year Contracts Nine Months Early

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Yale U OPR: Yale and UNITE HERE Agree on Three-year Contracts Nine Months Early

UNITE HERE President John Wilhelm, Yale President Richard C. Levin, Local 34 President Laura Smith and Local 35 President Robert Proto announce tentative agreement on new labor contracts.

New Haven, Conn. — Yale University and UNITE HERE Locals 34 and 35, the two major unions representing Yale employees, have agreed on new three-year contracts more than nine months before the expiration of their current contracts. The new agreements will take effect January 2010 and cover 3,400 clerical and technical employees in Local 34 and more than 1,200 service and maintenance employees in Local 35.

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