Posts tagged as “2015 bargaining”

6/4/2015: Bargaining XIV:

Check the UAUO facebook blog here, I”m only blogging the end of the meeting today, missed the rest for class. Last session ended with this response from Dave Cecil, to the admin’s proposal for “intense negotiations”.

Regarding your idea of an intense session to resolve our differences, we can’t do that because we’re so far apart right now. If you had moved closer to our position, we could to that, but without more progress from you my members would not accept an intense negotiation.

The UO faculty last received raises on July 1, 2014. Last week the admins proposed that we wait 18 months for this:

Jan 1 2016:
1% ATB
0% Merit
0% Equity

And then wait another 12 months for this:

Jan 1 2017:
0% ATB
1.5% Merit pool by unit (But up to 20% held back at Dean’s discretion.)
0% Equity

I’m no algebra professor, but that’s total of 2.5% over two-and-a-half years. Nominal, not real. That was our administration’s response to the union’s proposal for

Jan 1 2016:
2.5% ATB
1.5% Merit
1.0% External equity pool, to be allocated across rank and dept. based on AAU public averages. No external equity raise from this pool to exceed 10%.

Jan 1 2017:
2.5% ATB
1.5% Merit
1.0% Internal equity pool for each department

Today, the union’s counter-proposal cuts a little of the ATB, bumps up the Merit a little, cuts the Equity a little:

Jan 2016:
2.0% ATB
1.5% Merit

Jan 2017:
2.0% ATB
1.75% Merit
1.25% Internal and external equity pool.

Salary at other AAU publics increased 3.4% this year. UO’s proposed raises have been delayed past the normal July 1 start date, until Jan 1 2016. Spread out over 2.5 years, the union proposal will mean we will lose ground relative to the AAU.

It’s going to be a long summer folks. But no new bargaining meetings until the first week in July.

Session is over but they’re still talking. Bill Brady makes the mistake of confusing the cost to UO of the PERS retirement package with its value to current UO employees. Here’s an easy way to keep it straight, Bill:

When the State of Oregon must jack up UO’s PERS payments in order to meet our obligation to cover the $550,000 a year PERS tab for Mike Bellotti and his wife, yes, that is a cost to UO.

But that cost is not in any fucking way whatsoever a benefit of any value to the UO faculty, with whom you are bargaining.

5/28/2015: Bargaining XIII: UO administration proposes to cut the faculty’s real wages

Average AAU pay is increasing at 3.4% a year, cost of living (for Portland) is increasing at about 2.4% a year, and Eugene house prices are increasing at about 3% a year.

The administration’s bargaining proposal to cut real faculty pay is here. The well is dry, Jamie Moffitt is telling us. And that’s what she’s going to tell the UO Board of Trustees in their closed session on union bargaining on Friday.

But forensic accountant Howard Bunsis thinks Jamie Moffitt is wrong. And he’s got the data to prove it. The UAUO faculty union has now posted the full Bunsis video, in all its glory:

Part 1: https://youtu.be/tEZ6SLkdAiM, Part 2: http://youtu.be/BernpSZ3DRw

The 82 powerpoint slides are here, but I encourage you to watch the video to get the explanations. Bunsis gives these sorts of talks at universities all over the country, and he has done a particularly thorough job for UO:

I don’t see any redactions – unlike Moffitt’s:

I imagine there will be some discussion about where to stick the administration’s latest offer: More here. You must be a union member to attend. Membership cards will be available to sign at the meeting.

2-6PM today, Library collaboration room. Ever since that Chevy van incident last month I’ve hard a hard time taking the administration’s proposals seriously. But the union has some good info on sessions VIII and IX here, and Deb Merskin’s live blogging of today’s X is here. Sounds like the admins are really hitting the ethics article: Debra Merskin…

The administration is still stalling on their economic counter proposal. Word is Jamie Moffitt will have something to show for herself on Friday April 10, 2PM. I’m not sure what articles today’s session will cover. The report on Bargaining V is here. I may be able to do a little…

3/9/2015 update: Moffitt stalls for time on raise counter-proposal. Bargaining V to focus on NTTF workload? Find out 10AM March 12 in the Library Collaboration Room.

Things are getting a little testy between Cecil and Brady. Check Luebke’s Facebook liveblog, here.

My understanding is that the admins economic counter-proposal had been scheduled for a month. The Union put its cards on the table 2 weeks ago. Did the board raise questions about the admin counter? Did Moffitt find the missing $17M? Does Coltrane want to leave this for the new president? I think Session VI is not until April 2nd.

Meanwhile rumors abound, feel free to add yours in the comments. Session V is still on, and will cover NTTF workload, etc.

Today, Thursday 1/29/2015, in the Knight Library Collaboration Room, 10AM to 2PM. First floor, on the RHS. All bargaining sessions are open to the public: Oh wait, that’s The University’s 2012-13 bargaining team. Whew. There have been a few changes at the table, and in the back-room too. Mostly good changes.…