10/14/2013 update: That would be President Hassan Rouhani of Iran. The Chronicle has the story.9/16/2013 update: InsideHigherEd reports on UO Academic Freedom fight UO’s free speech fight has gone global. Colleen Flaherty at Inside Higher Ed broke the story on Thursday, then CUNY’s Cory Robin posted his take on his blog and on the popular Crooked Timber (tagline:…
Posts tagged as “Faculty Union (United Academics of UO)”
But not the retroactive 2012 and 2013 raises the faculty union negotiated. This just ain’t right, everyone deserves a goat! 10/12/13 update: A reader points out that the OAs got the goat back in October, back when Gottfredson’s lawyers Randy Geller and Sharon Rudnick were claiming he couldn’t give the…
10/10/2013: From a UAUO announcement: Call for Nominations As specified in the UAUO Constitution, an election to establish leadership for United Academics will be held this term. All union members are eligible to run for office and to vote. The union-wide officer positions are: President Executive Vice President Secretary Treasurer…
10/9/2013: From the UAUO website on last night’s vote: CONTRACT RATIFICATIONYES: 301 (99%)NO: 3 (1%) DUES AUTHORIZATIONYES: 285 (97.2%)NO: 8 (2.8%) Pretty good turnout for an in-person vote, I think the union currently has about 1000 members. Next order of business is nominations for officers and representative assembly members, then a…
10/2/2013: Updated announcement with links. I apologize but we do not have a budget or dues rate yet. Nothing nefarious, I’m traveling and the OC is busy with the contract and classes etc. Hard to arrange a meeting time to approve everything. I’d post the draft but I’m just one of…
Sept. 20, 2013 Tentative Collective Bargaining Agreement To: University of Oregon faculty members From: Scott Coltrane, interim provost On September 18th, the University of Oregon (sic) and United Academics reached a tentative agreement on a first-time collective bargaining agreement. The Union has scheduled a ratification vote of the bargaining unit faculty…
Breaking news: Union Takes the Goat Faculty get average 12% raises (all in place by July 1, 2014, 10 months from now) $350 goat signing bonus (pro-rated by FTE) Increases in sabbatical and promotion raises Admins agree to leave Senate COI/COC (consulting) rules in place Admins agree old IP policy stays…
9/18/2013: Update from an anon correspondent: Summary of AEI Situation AEI Background: A majority of international undergraduate students pass through one American English Institute (AEI) program or another. AEI collaborates with other departments to enhance the international students’ academic success, and to a large degree, the students’ future academic success…
9/17/2013: UO’s GC Randy Geller is hard at work, building trust between President Gottfredson and the faculty with these latest redactions: 8/7/2013: Full pdf here. It took 2 months, $214.50, and a petition to Lane County District Attorney Alex Gardner to get UO General Counsel Randy Geller to produce these.…
9/17/2013: More on the EWU plan, from Colleen Flaherty at EWU The 2010 Coltrane/Lariviere plan would have got UO salary averages by discipline and rank to the levels of comparators by fall 2013. So it was the same as the EWU plan, but allowing merit differentials within departments. Gottfredson was…
Thursday, September 12, 1pm-5pm in Knight Library 101. This is the big one, be there. not the end, bring more colleagues next time, we’ll probably need an even bigger room as start of term approaches and raises, consulting, and IP come up.PDFs of proposals submitted 9/12/2013 here. Disclaimer: My respectful opinion of…
Tuesday 9/10/2013, Room 122 or 101 Knight Library. 1PM til 5.Live Blog disclaimer: These are my opinions of what people said or meant or should have said. Nothing is a quote unless in quotes. If you don’t like my blog read the United Academics one on facebook, here.Synopsis: Rudnick lectures faculty: Give up: “you all…
9/9/2013 update: Note that I am not requesting attorney notes, just transcripts taken by a UO non-attorney stenographer: Summarizing, I am requesting that the District Attorney order UO to release what I believe are transcripts, or very close to transcripts, taken by a university employed non-attorney, of meetings that were…
Negotiations between the union and the administration resume at 1PM Tuesday, Room 122 or 101 in the library. If you care about this stuff, I suggest you show up. 9/9/2013 update #2: The take from the administration’s bargaining update pages? Article 52: Outside ActivitiesWe presented the Union with a counterproposal…