5/10/2013: I expected venality from Sharon Rudnick and her HLGR team, but like everyone else I’ve talked to I’ve been surprised by the incompetence. Maybe I shouldn’t have been though, given who wrote the foreword to “Negotiating for Dummies”: Yup, right at the bottom: David Frohnmayer, President of the University of…
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Thursday, 5/9/2013, 8-12 AM, Room 122 Knight Library. Your Guarantee of Truthiness: All UO Matters bargaining posts fact-checked by Randy Geller, HLGR and their lobbyist and public relations consultant, (and former Frohnmayer aide) Marla Rae: Synopsis: Gottfredson hunkers down in his bunker. Prologue: Will admins present their counter-counter-counter-counter on raises, or keep stalling? Senate…
Your Guarantee of Truthiness: All bargaining posts fact-checked by Randy Geller, HLGR and their lobbyist and public relations consultant, Marla Rae.Union rally in support of faculty bargaining team, 12:00 Tuesday, on the Knight Library steps. Details here: The United Academics Contract Action Team is calling on all faculty to greet…
5/2/2013: That’s the question UO’s feckless administrative bargaining team has raised at the table. As it happens there’s a new paper on college admissions from Doug Chung at the HBS, coming out in Management Science, that is relevant. Quick version? I further find that when a school goes from being mediocre…
Sharon Rudnick, when delivering the administration’s counter-offer last week: “You can argue whatever you want. This is what it is. This is our best offer. You can make all the accusations you want.” The union’s slightly more temperate response: Our proposal would redirect 2% of the university’s total operating budget by…
4/26/2013: That would be the TTF at Montana State, story here. Their NTTF union stays, and there is a new GTF union as well. The TTF decertification drive was led by grant funded faculty, who put up $10K or so of their own money for lawyers. Those leaders would likely would…
4/25/2013 Prologue: Note to President Gottfredson: If you have any concern for what the faculty think of you, don’t let Sharon Rudnick speak for you again. The union presented its raise proposal 5 weeks ago. The administration has been stalling on a response ever since. Tuesday, about 30 faculty showed up to hear what…
Update: The union is reporting that Gottfredson’s team has committed to present their counter on raises at 8AM Thursday. No explanation for the HLGR donut delivery problems, but the UO Matters catering division will be ready with coffee and backup voodoo. 4/23/2013: At 9:30 VPFA Jamie Moffitt will deliver President Gottfredson’s…
4/19/2013 parking update: ODE story on faculty union’s unsuccessful efforts to talk with Gottfredson about his bargaining team’s slow pace, here: “It’s important for our representatives to work with theirs, and not to be jumping to different personnel,” Altmann said. “The president signs off on everything that the administration does,…
From the Bozeman Chronicle. 4/17/2013.
The administration and the union have been going back on forth on whether or not “academic matters” can be arbitrated or not. Here’s an interesting story in the Chronicle from a few years back about a professor from Alaska who lost a grievance. His union apparently had the right to…
Free Coffee, Courtesy of UO Matters! Come on down.Venue: Room 122 Knight Library, 8AM, Thursday 4/11/2013. Buy your tickets here, $5 for 4 hours of comedy and administrative hijinks. All proceeds go towards the $300 I had to pay Dave Hubin to see the invoices on Rudnick’s $400 an hour…
Venue: Room 122 Knight Library, 8AM, Tuesday 4/9/2013. Also see Luebke’s blog. Synopsis: Gottfredson prepares for scorched earth class warfare: getting the students to believe it’s the faculty’s fault that tuition has been increasing. He must destroy the university to save it from the faculty. Nick Ekblad sneaks behind enemy lines…
4/8/2013: Update: Marcin asked me to move this to the top of the blog, in case people had additional comments.3/22/2013: Dear Union Bargaining Team, I would like to raise your attention to enormous inequity in ORP retirement contribution rates between two different tiers of university faculty. I think this should…
4/3/2013: The smart money says she’s billed us more than $200K so far. Now UO’s Public Records Office is charging $300 for people to see copies of the latest invoices from Sharon Rudnick and HLGR: We asked for the documents 12 days ago, and found out about the fee today.…