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Union bargaining XXI – Enter President Kyr

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…

Union bargaining XIX: Gottfredson counters w/ half a Lariviere

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…

Union bargaining XVIII: Raises. Rudnick: Just kidding!

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…

Union bargaining XVII:

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…

Union Bargaining XIV: Gottfredson’s response is to stall

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…

Union Bargaining XIII: Money (with postscript)

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…

Union bargaining VII

Tuesday 2/5/2013, 8-12 AM, top o’ Lillis, room 450. Be there. Bring me some adderall. But, if not, no worries, I’ll live blog it anyway. Meanwhile here’s Dash Paulson in the ODE with the story from last week. Live blog disclaimer: My interpretation of what people said, meant, meant to say,…