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…
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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…
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…
Synopsis: Gottfredson gets called out on trying to keep faculty off UO Board, and setting up secret working groups. Resolutions pass, pass, pass, pass. 4:20 and all the motions are done, several with appropriate amendments. Frank Stahl introduces motion for May meeting: Notice of MOTION for LEGISLATION:The University shall enter…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Postmortem: Rudnick said that Gottfredson’s 2 year 2.5% “COLA” and 2% merit puddle was a take it or leave it offer, because of UO’s “financial constraints”. If the union takes it, there will be no more merit or across the board raises until September 2014. There is still a possibility…
Prologue: Gottfredson fired Bean yesterday, after lots of faculty pressure. A good day for UO, probably the best since we got rid of Frohnmayer. The Senate will chase off Espy next, then Geller. The polling suggests that people see Westhead as Mullens’ problem. Fair enough. Tops on today’s bargaining agenda…
Update: Prof. Barbara Altmann accuses faculty union of supporting child pornography. Update #4 on the Admin blog, for today 2/7/2013: In perhaps the most extreme section, the Union proposed that “[t]he content of faculty profiles in social media (Facebook, LinkedIn, etc) shall not be considered during any evaluation of a…