Posts tagged as “AAUP-AFT Union?”

2/17/2011: The union organizers have dropped the OA’s from their proposed bargaining unit and if they have any sense they will also drop the part-time NTTF’s – who have very different interests than the faculty and full-time NTTFs. So maybe it’s time to start taking the union seriously. This event…

1/24/2011: The faculty union organizers have been quiet lately, but this 2/17 event looks interesting.

11/16/2010: This adds some credibility to the argument for unionization. From Peter Schmidt in the Chronicle. The paper itself is here. I’m no economist, but the story quotes Ron Ehrenberg, a very respected one from Cornell: “This is a serious study, and very well done.” Unions Hold Mostly Pluses for…

11/7/2010: The union organizers send along this announcement: This Monday, United Academics will host events featuring Professor Joan DelFattore of the University of Delaware.  Joan DelFattore is a Professor of English and Legal Studies at the University of Delaware.  She is the author of  Knowledge in the Making:  Academic Freedom…

10/22/2010: From the Chronicle: Faculty of Bowling Green State U. Votes in Favor of Union Representation By Audrey Williams June Faculty members at Bowling Green State University have voted in favor of union representation in an election that administrators at the Ohio institution had campaigned heavily against. About 85 percent…

6/24/2010: From the union website:   United academics of the UO in the pursuit of forming a union for campus faculty have hired new staff to accelerate and capitalize on the growing support on the campus. David Cecil has been hired at United Academics as the lead organizer. Cecil has been…

6/5/2010: The UO faculty/OA union organizers now have a facebook site: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=126059310737990 UO Matters is jealous: we have a site too, http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=126059310737990#!/group.php?gid=123723880990459&v=wall&ref=ts but we can’t figure out how to get it to update automatically from this blog feed.

5/20/2010: From Insidehighered.com. UW-Superior and UW-Eau Claire.

5/14/2010: The union organizers are saying that it was possible to make multiple responses to the Senate Exec Committee poll via the email link that was sent, so long as you used computers with different IP addresses, and that this is one reason they discount the results. (My own faculty…

5/10/2010: Greg Bolt of the RG has a story on the Senate census of opinions on a union. Some people say this was “unscientific”. In this context this typically means a sample that is biased towards one group, therefore with results that are problematic for making unbiased estimates of population…

5/3/2010: The results of the Senate survey on unionization are here. The comments on the survey are also posted and are worth reading. The response rate is higher than the previous UO Matters survey, and the results are very clear: The tenure track faculty are opposed more than 2 to…

4/29/2010: The results of the Senate survey on unionization are just in, here. Response rate looks like an admirable 50% or so. TTF: 55% opposed, 23% in favor. (380 responses). Overall (TT, OA, NTTF, etc): 50% against, 22% in favor. (1053 responses) I don’t have time to digest this til…

I just glanced at the administration’s updated info site, at http://hr.uoregon.edu/er/unionization/index.html It’s a hodgepodge – different info about their take on the dues in different places. Does anyone know why the union organizers are so quiet? I heard they are busy hitting up the OAs? The Union site is here,…