Venue: Room 122 Knight Library, 8AM, Tuesday 4/2/2013. (No bargaining Th the 4th). Synopsis: The union put its remaining economic proposals on the table. The administration said it needs to cost them out before responding. The union then asked how much UO was prepared to spend on the raises and…
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4/1/2013: Note that this vote is only about their TTF union. From Carl Straumsheim in Insidehighered.com: Faculty members at Montana State University could next month vote to end a four-year experiment with unionization, stripping the American Federation of Teachers and the National Education Association of a hard-won chapter at a…
3/28/2013 update: SB 822, the Democratic response to the PERS cut proposals from Kitzhaber and the Republicans, has passed out of committee on a 3-2 vote. It is the weakest of the 3 proposals, and, according to the fiscal analysis, even it is enough to completely offset the “30% increase”…
3/28/2013: A column by Wicke Sloane, in Insidehighered, on the SEIU staff union’s research reports on conflicts of interest and administrative bloat at public universities: I commend the 5,000 higher education workers of the Massachusetts Service Employees International Union (SEIU), Local 615. These men and women, led by Massachusetts SEIU…
3/25/2013: Let’s help UO’s VPFA (and former athletic department chief financial officer) Jamie Moffitt find the money to pay for the faculty raises in the Lariviere plan. Every 1% raise for the faculty (TTF and NTTF) costs UO about $910K. Add in the variable benefit costs and it’s about $1.15M.…
Currently UO pays 12.21% into its defined contribution ORP for employees hired after 2003, and 22.14% for those before. That will increase to 12.41% and 26.9% in July. VPFA Jamie Moffitt told the faculty that we couldn’t get real raises because of these expected increases in the cost of retirement…
Venue: Room 122 Knight Library, 8AM, Thursday 3/21/2013. Postscript: Prologue: (Comparator gaps by dept here, what to cut here, Moffitt’s secret budget here.) You might have thought Michael Gottfredson would have asked Kitzhaber for authority to deal with UO’s faculty pay problem, before he agreed to take the UO president’s…
Updated with latest (last?) Beangram: March 20, 2013 TO: Officers of instruction, research and administrationFROM: Provost Jim BeanSUBJECT: Multi-year salary adjustment program update I am writing to provide an update regarding the multi-year salary adjustment program announced in my email of March 4, 2013. The University is moving forward…
Venue: Room 122 Knight Library, 8AM, Tuesday 3/19/13. Postscript: (Raises to get to comparators here, what to cut here, Moffitt’s secret budget slides here.) The union’s bargaining update, with a description of their salary plan, is here: Yesterday, the United Academics Bargaining Team proposed a carefully considered, comprehensive and forward-looking…
3/18/2013: Help VPFA Jamie Moffitt find the money to get UO’s faculty salaries to the AAU peers, and provide similar raises for NTTFs. A rough guess is she needs $20 million recurring, or about 2.5% of UO’s total projected $813 million in revenue for 2012-13. To play, log in to…
3/16/2013: Back in December Jamie Moffitt gave a presentation on UO budget projections to a closed OUS board meeting. I tried to attend as a journalist, they kicked me out. The RG made a public records request for the numbers UO presented, as did I. Here’s what we got back,…
12/14/12: And what’s it costing us? Long story. The short version, with my opinion? The UO administration’s current lead negotiator, Sharon Rudnick, (from Dave Frohnmayer’s firm, HLGR) was originally hired by Interim UO President Bob Berdahl to fight faculty unionization.(That’s my opinion – under state law UO has to officially…
Postmortem: My take on the pity raise proposal: Bunsis beats Moffitt with a TKO after his simple question got her so flustered she left the room. Good faculty turnout, I got $30 on cover charges so far, thanks. Bunsis presentation slides are here, video soon. Takeaway? OUS says UO should have…
3/6/2013: In June 2009, the news broke in the University of Missouri student newspaper that their faculty were paid the second least in the AAU: A recently released study done by the American Association of University Professors reports MU salaries for ranked professors second to last out of 34 public…
3/6/2013: Lots of talk today about how the faculty should respond to Gottfredson’s 2% merit pay ultimatum. This 2% will be our total merit pay increase for what, the past 5 years, plus the next 2? It’s been so long I’ve forgotten. I think that works out to about $120…