1/14/2012: They started collecting these Monday, unsubstantiated rumor is that 1/3 of faculty those in the organizer defined bargaining unit have already signed union cards. Union website here, facebook here. Not a lot of info on either. Apparently they will attempt to certify a bargaining unit that will include TT…
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12/20/2011. Last week it was Ed Ray at OSU. Now it’s Wim Weiwel at PSU. Next week I suppose we’ll learn that Pernsteiner did it too. From the Bill Graves Oregonian story: Portland State University faculty will get as much as a 4.1 percent pay raise for each of the…
11/22/2011: Nigel Jaquiss of Willamette Week has the scoop: WW has learned that Oregon University System board members met with University of Oregon President Richard Lariviere on Monday, telling him that when his contract expires in June, it will not be renewed. Governor John Kitzhaber surprised Lariviere by affirming that…
11/10/2011: I missed the Senate meeting. Sam Stites of the ODE has a roundup, here. Comments welcome.
11/8/2011: Faculty governance, that is. The United Academics faculty union organizers are apparently planning a card check election for December. They are having a roundtable discussion at the UO Senate meeting, Wed, 175 Knight Law School. Their slot is 4-5 PM. For me, the high point of the union campaign…
10/30/2011: One for tenure track faculty, one for NTTFs. From the Bozeman Daily Chronicle: Montana State University’s two new faculty unions have approved their first-ever collective bargaining contracts on the Bozeman campus, covering roughly 400 professors and 200 instructors. Leaders of the Associated Faculty of MSU unions announced Friday that…
10/24/2011: The AAUP/AFT faculty union organizers have a nice new website, complete with endorsements from faculty. The are having a NTTF luncheon Wednesday. They also address the pay leveling concern head on, here. Add comments to this post here. The old union website used to link to UO Matters posts…
10/23/2011: From the Oregonian: The Oregon City School District has decided to reject a $2.54 million federal grant meant to reward top educators, partly because of philosophical concerns over performance-based pay. The UO administration is a sad example of what happens when you divorce pay from performance. Just compare Frances…
7/13/2011: It’s a state case in Illinois, but very relevant to the similar effort to unionize UO faculty and adjuncts. Last I heard they were preparing for a card-check election, this fall, and < 0.5FTE adjuncts will have the same vote as full time profs. From Scott Jasik at Insidehighered.com.
5/24/2011: I missed the AAUP/AFT union event Tuesday afternoon. Announcement here. The union’s facebook site is here. Adeline Bash’s ODE story here: “It’s always gotten worse than I thought it would be,” Cary Nelson, president of the American Association of University Professors, said of his decade-long predictions that higher education…
5/19/2011: Here’s a bit of highly relevant news for the UO faculty union movement, from Insidehighered.com: Faculty members at the University of Illinois at Chicago filed for union recognition last month — moving to become one of a small number of research universities to seek collective bargaining for professors, and…
5/2/2011: From Kevin Kiley at Insidehighered.com: One major argument that organizers said stuck with faculty members was that professors consistently felt like they had no voice in university governance. … AFT and AAUP are currently working with faculty members at the University of Oregon to establish a union there, though…
4/27/2011: This fight has to give the union supporters pause. The AFT says “part-timers must have full voting rights on all union matters, including the election of officers and the ratification of contracts.”
3/7/2011: This Insidehighered.com survey of the literature finds the only noticeable impact is on adjuncts – it’s large – and at 2-year colleges.
2/25/2011: From Insidehighered.com: Governor Scott Walker of Wisconsin, a Republican, is trying to end the newly gained right of faculty members at the University of Wisconsin System to unionize. But faculty members at the university’s La Crosse campus voted this week to unionize, following similar votes by professors at the…