The latest post from $115K PR Flack Tobin Klinger about the faculty union bargaining is now up on AroundThe0. Salary negotiations re-start Friday at 2PM. The union is proposing raises that would finally get us to the Lariviere target. The administration wants to give all the money to people like Klinger instead:
Full disclosure: These faculty salaries are before the 12.5% raises the union negotiated in late Fall of 2013.
This is the sort of false equivocation that you could apply to all classified employees, administrators, or any faculty who don’t work in physics, I guess.
President Dreiling could even shave a quarter of a percent or so from his much anticipated salary increase proposal to fund a full professor in physics if it were that important.
But you won’t make those other equivocations because you wouldn’t want to upset the proletariat. Luckily for you, the archivists’ salary savings is enough to cover your wage.
Perhaps Tobin can explain why the promises about more robust privacy protections at the UCTC are not going to be kept: http://www.oregonlive.com/education/index.ssf/2015/04/uo_quietly_diminishes_privacy.html#incart_river_mobileshort
And one is a 12 month and one is a 9 month salary. But why let facts get in the way of a good slam?
That’s irrelevant. At least in the sciences, most faculty are working all 12 months. I don’t shut down my research lab, ignore my graduate students, kick out undergraduate researchers, and turn off my brain in the summer, regardless of whether I have external salary support. UO’s salary should be considered the salary for the whole year, even though on paper it’s a “nine month” salary. So yes, it’s perfectly legitimate to compare a gigantic 12 month administrator salary and a 9 month faculty salary.
But the 9-month salary could be increased to full year by a reasonably active lab with external support, so it is a little iffy to really make the claim. I’m sure there are plenty of science faculty making more than their 9-month salary, after all.
Are those 9 month salaries? The institutional reporting tool lists faculty as having an annual salary rate and a 9 month term of service, so they would have to get external summer funding to achieve the listed salary. Which number is reported for the average?