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Posts tagged as “Faculty Union (United Academics of UO)”

No UO Faculty Satisfaction

10/29/2012: Johnson Hall *really* doesn’t give a shit what the faculty think, so they simply opted out of the OUS survey on faculty satisfaction: And they honestly wonder why “their faculty colleagues” voted to unionize? Later in the docket for the Nov 1 meeting the issue of evaluations of university presidents comes…

Union, Senate each get one member

From the most recent meeting of the special legislative committee on independent university boards: Board Composition 2 Students, one undergraduate, one graduate (if appropriate) nominated by the relevant student organization(s) and appointed by the Governor. 2 faculty, one nominated by nominated by the faculty senate and one by the faculty…

university wants a union contract that abolishes tenure

That’s Wayne State, currently bargaining with its faculty union. Scott Jaschik in IHE: The faculty union at Wayne State University says that proposals made by the administration last week would effectively eliminate tenure protections any time the university wanted to make budgetary shifts.  Under the proposal, “they can get rid…

Unionized faculty get raises

at Western Washington University. From the Seattle Times: In a harshly worded letter to Western President Bruce Shepard, the governor criticized the university’s decision to raise salaries 5.25 percent this school year and 4.25 percent each of the following two years in addition to boosting department-chair stipends 15 percent. The…

Le comité des refusés

Update: The union Organizing Committee currently has 32 members listed. 5 are from PoliSci, 4 from Romance Languages, 3 from Music. German and Scandinavian has 2, as do History, AEI, and PE and Rec. None of these people were elected by anyone. They are making lots of important decisions that…