…is to hold back the OA raises until January so they aren’t used against the administration during UA bargaining, but to make them retroactive to July once bargaining is concluded. Really just a shell game, but meant to keep everyone happy.
Leporello
05/12/2015
And how do you know this?
The Plan
05/13/2015
It’s not exactly a secret if you stop by Johnson Hall. Most of bargaining (on both sides) is about keeping up appearances.
smitty
05/13/2015
Ah. The economic offers to the classified staff have been insulting, as well. I suspect The Plan is correct, using this against both unions currently in bargaining.
Max Powers
05/14/2015
I would say the offers to Classified employees have been pretty low and will likely continue to be low given the insistence on making every school give the same raises. They are not funded the same anymore, not even remotely and some of them are extremely poor, i.e. Eastern with its dramatic enrollment decreases. It’s like asking mom and pop’s internet provider to pay the same wages as Google. Either have the legislature fund institutional compensation the same or accept the idea that by making the Universities bargain as one you end up playing to the lowest common denominators.
Some institutions have continued with furloughs while Classified got increases. I know Southern Oregon has had their faculty and administrators on furloughs for the last two years while Classified there got increases.
The reality is that the decline in state funding has shifted the burden of compensation off taxpayers and onto the backs of students.
I would also say that the recent PERS decision likely didn’t help the mentality of the bean counters at institutions.
All of that being said I think your first priority should be your faculty. If we are truly shifting to a business model, as I believe higher ed is, you should take care of the people who deliver your product. Those people are the faculty. They should feel valued and respected and have the tools to deliver the knowledge our students seek. That being said they also need to be held accountable for providing that in a quality way just as every employee should be.
SaveUofO
05/14/2015
Letter going around to department heads from Moffitt about budgets being reduced and initiatives not being funded. UofO might have more money if it didn’t have to pay to defend all these lawsuits that should never have happened to begin with.
A long harangue
05/14/2015
Or the 3 million dollar raise for the football coach that we’re pretending came from some untouchable pot of money.
…is to hold back the OA raises until January so they aren’t used against the administration during UA bargaining, but to make them retroactive to July once bargaining is concluded. Really just a shell game, but meant to keep everyone happy.
And how do you know this?
It’s not exactly a secret if you stop by Johnson Hall. Most of bargaining (on both sides) is about keeping up appearances.
Ah. The economic offers to the classified staff have been insulting, as well. I suspect The Plan is correct, using this against both unions currently in bargaining.
I would say the offers to Classified employees have been pretty low and will likely continue to be low given the insistence on making every school give the same raises. They are not funded the same anymore, not even remotely and some of them are extremely poor, i.e. Eastern with its dramatic enrollment decreases. It’s like asking mom and pop’s internet provider to pay the same wages as Google. Either have the legislature fund institutional compensation the same or accept the idea that by making the Universities bargain as one you end up playing to the lowest common denominators.
Some institutions have continued with furloughs while Classified got increases. I know Southern Oregon has had their faculty and administrators on furloughs for the last two years while Classified there got increases.
The reality is that the decline in state funding has shifted the burden of compensation off taxpayers and onto the backs of students.
I would also say that the recent PERS decision likely didn’t help the mentality of the bean counters at institutions.
All of that being said I think your first priority should be your faculty. If we are truly shifting to a business model, as I believe higher ed is, you should take care of the people who deliver your product. Those people are the faculty. They should feel valued and respected and have the tools to deliver the knowledge our students seek. That being said they also need to be held accountable for providing that in a quality way just as every employee should be.
Letter going around to department heads from Moffitt about budgets being reduced and initiatives not being funded. UofO might have more money if it didn’t have to pay to defend all these lawsuits that should never have happened to begin with.
Or the 3 million dollar raise for the football coach that we’re pretending came from some untouchable pot of money.