BARGAINING UPDATE
March 13, 2024
All remaining articles are on the table
Takeaways:
Dear colleagues,
We met with the administration on Monday, March 11. In this meeting, we presented a comprehensive package of counterproposals on Compensation, Benefits, Leaves, Layoffs, Shared Governance, Research Support, Management Rights, No Strike/No Lockout, Successorship, and Duration. The articles in our package represent all the outstanding items on which we must come to agreement before we can tentatively agree to a final contract, and we are already aligned on many of them.
At this point, the administration could simply sign off on our package and we would have a full tentative contract to vote on. However, while we saw very strong improvements on salary floors in their last set of proposals, there are still areas where we are apart. In particular, their most recent offer on across-the-board maintenance increases falls short of what we need to ensure the real value of our salaries in the coming years and justify their proposed increases in health insurance costs.
We continue to push at the table for the raises we all deserve. We need everyone’s engagement to get over this final hurdle. If you have not yet signed a membership card, now is the time. When we tentatively agree to a final contract, there will be a relatively short window of time for union members to review the Tentative Agreement (TA) and vote on it. It will be very difficult for membership cards signed after we reach a TA to be processed and added to the list of eligible voters, since the voting will need to be up and running shortly after the TA is reached. The contract won't go into effect (and no union member will pay dues) until it is ratified by the members of our union. If you would like to have a say in voting on the final contract, sign a membership card now.
In solidarity,
Your bargaining committee
Tyler Bickford (chair), Professor, English, Oakland
Pete Bell, Teaching Assistant Professor, Chemistry, Oakland
Nicholas Bircher, Part-time Professor, Nurse Anesthesia, Oakland
Chloe Dufour, Faculty Librarian, ULS, Oakland
Anthony Fabio, Associate Professor, Epidemiology (Public Health), Oakland
Lech Harris (secretary), Part-time Instructor, English, Oakland
James Hill (archivist), Visiting Assistant Professor, History, Oakland
Megan O’Brien, Master Teacher, Falk Laboratory School, Oakland
Sabrina Robinson, Part-time Instructor, Slavic, Oakland
Evan Schneider, Assistant Professor, Physics and Astronomy, Oakland
Paul Scott, Assistant Professor, Health and Community Systems (Nursing), Oakland
Jeffrey Shook, Professor, Social Work, Oakland
Stacey Triplette, Associate Professor, Spanish, Greensburg
Abagael West, Teaching Assistant Professor, Biological Sciences, Oakland
Links!
- We presented a comprehensive package with all outstanding contract articles.
- We are getting close to finalizing the full tentative contract. If you want to vote on the final contract, you should sign a membership card immediately.
Dear colleagues,
We met with the administration on Monday, March 11. In this meeting, we presented a comprehensive package of counterproposals on Compensation, Benefits, Leaves, Layoffs, Shared Governance, Research Support, Management Rights, No Strike/No Lockout, Successorship, and Duration. The articles in our package represent all the outstanding items on which we must come to agreement before we can tentatively agree to a final contract, and we are already aligned on many of them.
At this point, the administration could simply sign off on our package and we would have a full tentative contract to vote on. However, while we saw very strong improvements on salary floors in their last set of proposals, there are still areas where we are apart. In particular, their most recent offer on across-the-board maintenance increases falls short of what we need to ensure the real value of our salaries in the coming years and justify their proposed increases in health insurance costs.
We continue to push at the table for the raises we all deserve. We need everyone’s engagement to get over this final hurdle. If you have not yet signed a membership card, now is the time. When we tentatively agree to a final contract, there will be a relatively short window of time for union members to review the Tentative Agreement (TA) and vote on it. It will be very difficult for membership cards signed after we reach a TA to be processed and added to the list of eligible voters, since the voting will need to be up and running shortly after the TA is reached. The contract won't go into effect (and no union member will pay dues) until it is ratified by the members of our union. If you would like to have a say in voting on the final contract, sign a membership card now.
In solidarity,
Your bargaining committee
Tyler Bickford (chair), Professor, English, Oakland
Pete Bell, Teaching Assistant Professor, Chemistry, Oakland
Nicholas Bircher, Part-time Professor, Nurse Anesthesia, Oakland
Chloe Dufour, Faculty Librarian, ULS, Oakland
Anthony Fabio, Associate Professor, Epidemiology (Public Health), Oakland
Lech Harris (secretary), Part-time Instructor, English, Oakland
James Hill (archivist), Visiting Assistant Professor, History, Oakland
Megan O’Brien, Master Teacher, Falk Laboratory School, Oakland
Sabrina Robinson, Part-time Instructor, Slavic, Oakland
Evan Schneider, Assistant Professor, Physics and Astronomy, Oakland
Paul Scott, Assistant Professor, Health and Community Systems (Nursing), Oakland
Jeffrey Shook, Professor, Social Work, Oakland
Stacey Triplette, Associate Professor, Spanish, Greensburg
Abagael West, Teaching Assistant Professor, Biological Sciences, Oakland
Links!
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