4/6/2012 update: And this morning after wasting a bit of our county DA’s time Randy Geller folded and gave up the contracts and invoices for the two firms UO has hired to advise them on the union organizing effort, here. One is with Stephen Hirschfeld of the SF firm Curiale…
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Updated with union response to Geller at bottom 4/5/2012. It’s the trade union / IWW split all over again. Sam Stites has the quotes in the ODE. Diane Dietz has more in the RG. And an actual numerator and denominator: On March 13, members of the United Academics of the…
4/4/2012 8:00 AM update: 483 for the secret ballot (need ~600), 363 for the no TTFs. Best to sign by noon if you are going to sign. 4/3/2012 9:45 AM update: 459 for the secret ballot (need ~600), 352 for the no TTFs. If you want to sign these petitions…
Apparently Frohnmayer’s got a conflict on this one, but I hear Melinda Grier is available. An email circulated to TTF today, 4/2/2012: Dear Colleagues, On the Friday of winter-term finals week, a group of tenure track faculty members distributed a petition that expresses some of our objections to the union’s…
4/2/2012: That’s the word from the union website update, in a post that also criticizes the petitions, here: We sincerely hope that the university administration will recognize the will of the majority of the faculty and maintain its previously public statement of neutrality. It now appears that the UO administration…
3/29/2012: Dan Dugger in math and some other faculty are organizing an online petition to the ERB, asking for a secret ballot election rather than accept the card check petition. I believe that the law requires the ERB be given written signatures, but Dan says: NOTE: ERB will *consider* the…
Will affect the debate at UO on this same issue. In the Chronicle today, here: The leaders of an effort to unionize faculty members at the University of Illinois at Chicago have abandoned the idea of forming a single collective-bargaining unit representing both tenure-track and non-tenure-track faculty members, and instead…
3/24/2012: The faculty union organizers have now put up a long post that gives the next steps. Worth reading it all, here. I am disappointed that they left out the April 4 deadline for faculty that are opposed to submit letters or a petition. A link to one petition, arguing…
as of 10AM 3/24/2012. There are a few signatures that might reasonably be challenged, e.g.: Name: Moe Ronn on Mar 23, 2012 Comments: I believe the state of Oregon and the university administration always has my best interests at heart and should make all decisions concerning my pay and benefits.…
This blog is not associated with the UO Faculty Union. But obviously this union needs an elected leader and an executive committee. Unofficial nominations accepted in the comments. Please reserve this for leadership nomination related comments.
3/23/2012: Sent to me and I believe all TTF’s this AM: Dear Colleagues, Many tenure track faculty members have expressed concerns regarding the union’s proposed bargaining unit. We have put together a petition for those TTF members that share our concerns. The ERB has informed us that we can file…
3/21/2012: I’ve got some opinions about the faculty union. But they are not as strong as, say, my opinion that provost Jim Bean shouldn’t be making UO students pay for the jock box and his beamer. Or my opinion that JH administrators shouldn’t be hired in secret, kept on without…
Another update: A chicken writes in the comments: For those who think the bargaining unit is inappropriate, I do think that individuals — not just the Admin. — have a formal right to object. “Interested persons may notify the Board Agent of their specific objections. Such objections must also be…
3/21/2012: Dan Dugger in math sends me a link to his webpage of arguments against the union, his full post is here. The union’s own page is here. Professor Dugger’s points include: The United Academics union has acted in a way that does not inspire confidence. The union claims to…
Gordon Sayre from English, quoted on the reasons for the UO faculty union victory in IHE: The story also explains that “The university has until April 4 to object to the petition for unionization, according to an official at the Employment Relations Board.” and that Robert Berdahl, interim president at…