Posts tagged as “Faculty Union (United Academics of UO)”

5/25/2012: The union has issued a call for volunteers for various committees, here. Very good, a big step forward for transparency. It’s not clear if everyone who volunteers can participate, I assume so. Apparently the by-laws committee is already stacked with insiders – the post says they only want three…

5/2/2012: Wondering who is on the union organizing committee? The by-laws committee? Want to get involved yourself, maybe show up at a meeting to find out what the next steps are? Too bad. None of this info is on the union’s website or facebook page. Not even the time and…

4/27/2012: Please submit your mottos in the comments, email art work to uomatters gmail. We’ll worry about that constitution later. A commenter notes the anti-union faculty need a t-shirt too: “Our core wasn’t properly polled”?

4/27/2012: Union announcement here. Pdf here. Official final excelsior list from the ERB is here. An Excelsior list is a list of those who will be in the union, definition here. There is still some scope for negotiation, however. No word yet on how by-laws, constitution, and leadership will be…

4/27/2012: Pretty clear what it means if you got one of these letters. If you didn’t, it may mean you are in the union, or it may mean they are still processing. I’ve got a  few PR requests out for more, if anyone knows please comment. From: United Academics Date:…

Email on 4/25/2012: The Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between the United Academics of the University of Oregon and the University of Oregon is posted on the Human Resources website.  http://hr.uoregon.edu/employee-labor-relations/faculty-unionization/memorandum-understanding-collective-bargaining-unit-fa The MOU describes the agreement reached by the United Academics and the University.  The bargaining unit agreed to by the…

4/25/2012: Sam Stites of the ODE has a piece on the union, Diane Dietz of the RG has more, here. Interestingly, no quotes from Interim Pres Berdahl:  “I wouldn’t say it was a change of heart. It’s more an acknowledgement of the bargainers desire to have the one unit,” acting…

Updated 6/3/2012:   For this post I will only accept comments that involve questions or answers! This is a resource page with links to information about the UO Faculty Union. It’s meant to be an independent source of information for faculty about the union. Revised as appropriate, suggestions welcome in the…

4/24/2012: An email sent to faculty at 10 AM. I’m stunned. Who will be in the union? Just the people on the Excelsior list? Less the faculty that departments identified as supervisors? Obviously Berdahl made a deal, but what exactly was it, and why did he make it? We’ve filed…

4/19/2012: Here are some documents obtained from the ERB via a public records request. Nothing that interesting except some stuff about the hearing dates and whether there will be transcripts etc. I’ve deleted the letters from individual faculty or groups of faculty supporting or objecting to various aspects of the…

4/17/2012: That’s the title of a long post on the union website here. Here are some excerpts with a little commentary: The administration has abandoned its position of neutrality and hired two law firms to run an anti-union strategy aimed at denying employees’ union rights: When we first announced our…

4/12/2012: Sent out yesterday at 10AM, sorry for the delay in posting, people don’t always forward me the administration’s confidential emails as quickly as they should. Emphasis added: To: [email protected]: cas-heads: Urgent information request due today 4 p.m. Dear department heads, We have been asked by the Graduate School to…

Update: Is it possible UO’s lawyers have a sense of humor? Check out their idea of who counts as university faculty, from the Excelsior file they gave the ERB: 4/5/2012: Will someone please email me their copy? uomatters at gmail dot com. I’ll keep you anonymous. Thanks, that was quick.…