I’ll try and remember to keep this updated as the football season progresses. Next game is the Tennessee Volunteers. Faculty salary averages for fall 2012, from the Chronicle/AAUP data:
Posts tagged as “Faculty Union (United Academics of UO)”
Friday 9AM – 4PM, 9/6/2013 122 Knight Library. SRO, but maybe not enough to force Rudnick to allow a move to the nicer 101 room. 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…
9/5/2013: President Gottfredson has a nice full professor’s salary to fall back, just in case his president gig at $540K doesn’t work out. His $360K fallback is about 250% of the AAU public average for sociology full professors: The rest of UO’s full professors are currently at 82% of the…
9/5/2013: At the Tuesday bargaining session I publicly ridiculed Journalism Tim Gleason, VP for Academic Affairs Doug Blandy, and former tobacco attorney, now lead administration negotiator Sharon Rudnick and their proposal to give every faculty member $350 as a contract signing bonus. I said this was enough money to buy…
Page down for live-blog, 9/3/2013. Next session Friday, I think 9AM – 4PM. Be there. Wrap-up: UO’s faculty union bargaining team has played President Gottfredson’s lead negotiator Sharon Rudnick like a screechy fiddle. She has insisted since March that there was no more money, beyond her initial 10.5% offer. The union…
Thursday 8/29/2013, 9am-4pm, room 122 Knight Library.The admin team’s fact-check on this post should be quite interesting.Lead admin negotiator and noted tobacco company lawyer Sharon Rudnick violates UO Respectful Workplace Policy? If you’d showed up you’d probably know what I’m talking about. Don’t miss the next session: Tuesday, 9/3, 10AM. Your chance…
8/26/2013: Updated elevator version: We’re going down. During the first year of Gottfredson’s administration UO faculty pay has fallen still further behind other AAU public universities: Full profs: down from 85% to 82% Associate profs: down from 92% to 90% Assistant profs: down from…
8/22/2013: This is goddamn brilliant. I’ve seen a few comments on this blog calling for a daylong strike during week one, over the administration’s laggardly pay proposal. But instead the faculty union is asking its members to volunteer with VP for Student Affairs Robin Holmes and her annual “Unpack the…
8/21/2013: It’s long past time for Gottfredson to bring in an adult. Maybe too late, given the hole Rudnick has dug him. But Interim Provost Scott Coltrane is willing to try. Remember that, as CAS Dean, Coltrane supported the Lariviere raises, and CAS set aside money to fund parts 2…
8/20/2013: I know, it’s an outrageous idea. Tuition is a sacred trust, paid by UO students and their parents in the belief that it will help out the poor athletic department, and allow Johnson Hall to hire a few more associate VPs. And of course give former interim Provost Jim…
8/14/2013 update: Finally got one page from Geller’s office on HLGR billing issues, in which Rudnick’s firm promises to be more vigilant in the future. 6/23/2013. Surely someone in Randy Geller’s GC office has responsibility for looking over the billable hours, checking productivity, asking questions about the inevitable little mistakes…
8/5/2013: Jeff Mapes has the story in the Oregonian: A Salem judge has ruled that Local 503 of the Service Employees International Union has violated the state’s nonprofit laws by failing to hold annual membership meetings, withholding certain records from members and improperly trying to change its corporate structure. The…
8/4/2013. From Harry Esteve in the Oregonian. 1.5% then 2% ATB, plus annual 4.5% steps for those who haven’t topped out. Plus an end to the furloughs for a onetime increase of about 5%, though of course less time off. The contract for UO staff is separate, and SEIU is still…
8/1/2013 update: That was back in April, for the Jan, Feb and March invoices. Now UO is stonewalling again. Almost 2 months since I asked Dave Hubin and Randy Geller for the April, May, and June invoices for Rudnick, and the other firms advising the admin bargaining team. The DOJ…
8/1/2013, 10am-4pm, room 122 Knight Library Your Guarantee of Truthiness: All UO Matters bargaining posts are publicly fact-checked by Geller and Rudnick’s secret team of well paid consultants. Their latest fact-check is here, and if you pay Dave Hubin $285.98 he’ll even tell you who wrote it. Disclaimer: My opinion of what people said or were thinking…