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PSU: bargaining intensifies

Mar 16, 2016 2094 Views Comments Off

by Pam Miller, President, PSU-AAUP Greetings everyone! I hope this message finds you all well and that winter term will get wrapped up shortly. PSU-AAUP went into affinity bargaining on Thursday, March 10. We had already bargained 10 hours in the same week in order to be ready for this day. We made sure our costing model worked, that we had all of our interests on the table, and that both teams felt prepared to finish economics in 8 hours. Affinity bargaining is part of Interest Based Bargaining (IBB) and involves both teams putting up proposals on the walls (with…

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UO: contract non-renewals

Mar 16, 2016 1705 Views Comments Off

by Michael Dreiling, President, United Academics of the University of Oregon At the UO, a "strategic realignment" of resources now underway just resulted in contract non-renewals for 79 non-tenure track faculty, concentrated in the Humanities. The details were announced by the administration just days before the arrival of the UO Board of Trustees for their quarterly meeting. The Register-Guard published an Op-Ed by United Academics leaders. See below. Faculty cuts jeopardize value of the university By Cristina Calhoon, Michael Dreiling and Karen McPherson For The Register-Guard During February’s legislative session, the University of Oregon’s top lobbying priority was to increase…